There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning... The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species - Page 221by Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 386 pagesFull view - About this book
| Dr. Schmidt (Eduard Oskar), Oscar Schmidt - Adaptation (Biology) - 1875 - 362 pages
...of nature to its logical inferences. In the last page of the " Origin of Species," Darwin says : " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according... | |
| Andrew Martin Fairbairn - History - 1876 - 424 pages
...presentment subtly masked. The concluding sentence of the " Origin of Species " will be remembered : " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or one ; and that while this planet has gone cycling on according to... | |
| John Cotton Smith - 1876 - 272 pages
...the works of Mr. Darwin, one of the most distinguished representatives of this school : " There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on, according... | |
| Medicine - 1876 - 528 pages
...a Doctrine vntanclioaed by Science. ISy TIIOHAS WHAETOK JONES, FHS, &c. 1876, pp. CO. " There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according... | |
| Science - 1877 - 612 pages
...unconsciously influenced in some way by the memory of Darwin's eloquent words, which are as follow : — " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one, and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according... | |
| James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - Science - 1877 - 600 pages
...unconsciously influenced in some way by the memory of Darwin's eloquent words, which are as follow : — " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one, and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according... | |
| 1878 - 802 pages
...beings which have ever lived on this earth may have descended from some one primordial form." . . " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according... | |
| 1878 - 794 pages
...beings which have ever lived on this earth may have descended from some one primordial form." . . " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according... | |
| Joseph William Reynolds - Religion and science - 1878 - 552 pages
...which' has become the leading idea of comparative anatomy in its present stage. Mr. Darwin thinks " there is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one."2 Professor Huxley says — "All existing species are... | |
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