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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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Darwinism and Design; Or, Creation by Evolution

George St. Clair - Evolution - 1873 - 280 pages
...what is meant by creation, have we lost anything by adopting the Theory of Evolution ? 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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Evolution and the Origin of Life

H. Charlton Bastian - Electronic books - 1874 - 216 pages
...further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. . . . 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 Popular Science Monthly, Volume 4

Science - 1874 - 800 pages
...farther, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. . . . 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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Christian Truth and Modern Opinion

Religion and science - 1874 - 250 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...
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What is Darwinism?

Charles Hodge - Evolution - 1874 - 190 pages
...which we are capable of conceiving, the production of the higher animals directly 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 that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volumes 59-60

Henry Allon - English periodicals - 1874 - 764 pages
...others, refuse to admit the irreligious tendency of their view?. The former asserts that there ia 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 while this planet has gone cycling on, according...
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Essays Contributed to the 'Quarterly Review.".

Samuel Wilberforce - History - 1874 - 412 pages
...character and the extinction of less improved forms, is decidedly followed by the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals.' But we can give him a simpler solution still for the presence of these strange forms of imperfection...
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On the origin of species by means of natural selection ; or, The ...

Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production...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 Academy, Volume 7

English literature - 1875 - 702 pages
...the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch. ..." (Ibid., p. 48P). " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...been originally breathed into a few forms or into one " (Ibid., p. 490). There ia no uncertain utterance here. There has been no special creation. All beings...
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The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism

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...
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