 | Montgomery Albert Ward - 1874 - 180 pages
...With regard to the first origin of life on this globe, I shall here quote Mr. Darwin's hypothesis. " I believe that animals have descended from, at most,...gall-fly produces monstrous growths on the wild rose or oak tree Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...laws of growth, and their liability to injurious influences. We see this even in so trifling a fact as that the same poison often similarly affects plants...produces monstrous growths on the wild rose or oak-tree. With all organic beings, excepting perhaps some of the very lowest, sexual reproduction seems to be... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1882 - 492 pages
...laws of growth, and their liability to injurious influences. We see this even in so trifling a fact as that the same poison often similarly affects plants and animals; or that the poison secreted hy the gall-fly produces monstrous growths on the wild rose or oak-tree. With all organic beings, excepting... | |
 | Martinus Willem Beijerinck - Embryology - 1882 - 242 pages
...laws of growth, and their liability to injurious influences. We see this even in so trifling a fact as that the same poison often similarly affects plants and animals, or that the poison seereted by the gallfly produces monstrous growths on the wild rose or oak tree." Tn DARWIN'S Schlussbemerkungen... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1884 - 396 pages
...laws of growth, and their liability to injurious influences. We see this even in so trifling a fact as that the same poison often similarly affects plants...by the gall-fly produces monstrous growths on the wild-rose or oak-tree. With all organic beings, excepting, perhaps, some of the very lowest, sexual... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Language and languages - 1887 - 738 pages
...he continues, ' would lead us one step further, namely, to a belief that all animals and plants are descended from some one prototype. But analogy may...plants and animals, or that the poison secreted by the gad-fly produces monstrous growths on the wild rose and the oaktree. Therefore I should infer from... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Language and languages - 1887 - 722 pages
...he continues, ' would lead us one step further, namely, to a belief that all animals and plants are descended from some one prototype. But analogy may...plants and animals, or that the poison secreted by the gad-fly produces monstrous growths on the wild rose and the oaktree. Therefore I should infer from... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Language and languages - 1887 - 362 pages
...the Molluscan, the Articulate, and the Vertebrate. See Methods of Study in Natural History, p. 36. But analogy may be a deceitful guide." " Nevertheless,...plants and animals, or that the poison secreted by the gad-fly produces monstrous growths on the wild rose and the oak-tree. Therefore I should infer from... | |
 | Literature - 1889 - 914 pages
...repeating to himself certain words of Darwin, a writer who had impressed him with singular force : "... All living things have much in common, in their chemical...the wild rose or oak-tree. Therefore I should infer by analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this eartli have descended... | |
 | Edgar Fawcett - American fiction - 1889 - 206 pages
...repeating to himself certain words of Darwin, a writer who had impressed him with singular force; "... All living things have much in common, in their chemical...the wild rose or oak-tree. Therefore I should infer by analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended... | |
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Nevertheless all living things have much in common, in their chemical composition, their cellular structure, their laws of growth, and their liability to injurious influences. 
