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" 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 past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system - Page 211
by David Page - 1861
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The First Man and His Place in Creation: Considered on the Principles of ...

George Moore - Theological anthropology - 1866 - 392 pages
...into which life was breathed by the Creator.'f Mr. Darwin says, somewhat exultingly : ' There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been breathed by the Creator into a few forms, or one.' There is, doubtless, necessarily a grandeur in any...
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The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species

Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 424 pages
...in the subsequent editions ; and in addition to this a long paragraph ending with this sentence, ' there is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...having been originally breathed into a few forms or one ; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so...
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The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species

Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 406 pages
...in the subsequent editions ; and in addition to this a long paragraph ending with this sentence, ' there is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been originally breathed into af etc forms or one ; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of...
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Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or ..., Volume 2

Religion and science - 1867 - 510 pages
...as these, that Mr. Warington makes his appeal to universal gravitation ; and that Mr. 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...
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The Intellectual Observer, Volume 12

Science - 1868 - 560 pages
...the concluding remarks of his well-know; work, in which, alluding to his theory, he says " 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 one, and that while this planet has gone cycling on, according to...
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The Intellectual Observer, Volume 12

Science - 1868 - 556 pages
...the concluding remarks of his well-known work, in which, alluding to his theory, he says " there is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originallv breathed by the Creator into a few forms or one, and that while this planet has gone cycling...
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A treatise on the habitations of the dead, intermediate and final

Philip Bolton - 1870 - 1098 pages
...caused by the action of His laws.' " — Origin of Species, p. 567. The last words of the book are : "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...
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Nature, Volume 4

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1871 - 546 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 bein originally brea'hcd by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet...
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Nature, Volume 4

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1871 - 662 pages
...dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around u>. " . . . . "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having be< n originally brea'hed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet...
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The North American Review, Volume 113

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1871 - 496 pages
...mysterious an origin, and " from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals." Our author, however, is much more " advanced " than Mr. Darwin on the question of the origin of life...
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