| Charles Dickens - English literature - 1860 - 638 pages
...by the gall-fly produces monstrous growths on the wild rose or oak-tree. Therefore, Mr. Darwin would infer from analogy that, probably, all the organic...from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed by the Creator. Is it too much to say that, in the good old times, opinions like these... | |
| William Nelson Pendleton - Bible and science - 1860 - 362 pages
...namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. I should infer that probably all the organic beings which have ever...from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed" ! !The blackness of atheism here seems relieved by one little ray of light, let in... | |
| American periodicals - 1860 - 894 pages
...Vestiges of Creation, p. 231. If Op. cit., p. 484. in common, this writer infers from that analog)', that probably all the organic beings which have ever...from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed." * By the latter scriptural phrase, it may be inferred that Mr. Darwin formally recognizes,... | |
| American essays - 1860 - 794 pages
...that "analogy may be a deceitful guide," yet he follows its inexorable leading to the inference thaj " probably all the organic beings which have ever lived...from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed."» In the first extract we have the thin end of the wedge driven a little way; in the... | |
| Methodist Church - 1860 - 712 pages
...which I .require, few will be inclined to admit." • 4. Mr. Darwin supposes that, " probably, all organic beings which have ever lived on this earth...from some one primordial form, into. which life was first breathed." " Form into which life was first breathed "? But that is a miracle ; a most stupendous... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1860 - 612 pages
...poison secreted by the gnll-fly produces monstrous growths on the wild rose or oak-tree. Therefore, 1 should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descvnded from some one primordial form into which life was first breathed by the Creator." -P. 484.... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...cannot doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same class. I believe that animals have descended from at most...from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed. When the views entertained in this volume on the origin of species, or when analogous... | |
| 1861 - 824 pages
...further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. But an analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless, all...from SOME ONE PRIMORDIAL FORM, into which life was first breathed."— Pp. 418,419. He thus holds that not a single species of the organized beings that... | |
| Gilbert Rorison - Evolution - 1861 - 192 pages
...world, is TO STRAIN ANALOOY BEYOND ALL SEASONABLE BOUNDS. — Lyell's Principles of Geology, BI ch. ix. I should infer from analogy that probably all the...from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed by the Creator. It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many... | |
| Natural history - 1861 - 540 pages
...(prototype) abstammen." — „Therefore" — um D.'s eigene Worte zu gebrauchen — „I should iufer from analogy that probably all the organic beings...from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed." Indem also Darwin alle Thierspecies ans Variirungen hervorgehen lässt , stellt er... | |
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