 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
 | Joseph William Reynolds - 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... | |
 | 1879 - 614 pages
...before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled . . . 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 Thomas Whittaker - 1879 - 318 pages
...conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly and inevitably follows. 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 in that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on,... | |
 | James Henry Chapin - Civilization - 1880 - 308 pages
...causes, than that each species has been independently cre"ted." And again, from his ORIGIN OF SPECIES: 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 while this planet has gone cycling on according... | |
 | James Hibbert - 1880 - 96 pages
...object 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... | |
 | Religion - 1880 - 938 pages
...Asa Gray's idea ? Judging from the final sentence of the " Origin of Species," which maintains that " there is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been originally breathed by the Creator into few forms or into one," we might infer that the theological difficulties of the... | |
 | Charles Anderson Read - Authors, Irish - 1880 - 394 pages
...dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us." ..." 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 oh according... | |
 | Jonathan Holt Titcomb (bp. of Rangoon.) - 1880 - 264 pages
...Darwin does not deny that they originally came from the hands of a Creator. He says in one place, " 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." : There are but two bases of belief upon which we can... | |
 | Joseph William Reynolds - 1880 - 602 pages
...fact, which has become the leading idea of comparative anatomy in its present stage. Dr. 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."7 Professor Huxley says — " All existing species are... | |
 | American periodicals - 1880 - 820 pages
...however, is undoubtedly the case, as shown by the following passage which concludes the volume : " 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, while this planet has gone cycling on according... | |
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