...those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession of generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world " (Origin of Species, p. 428). Like all great discoveries, the grandeur of Mr Darwin's conception lay...

...deposited, and to conclude thence that (as all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch)...succession by generation has never once been broken, that no catacîysm has desolated the whole world, and that we may look with some confidence to a secure...

...be thrown on the origin of man* and his " As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch,...the ordinary succession by generation has never once Wn broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence...

...ages." And he adds, in his concluding chapter, That " as all forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch,...that the ordinary succession by generation has never been once broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look forward with...

...likeness to distant futurity. * * * * * As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession of generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence...

...extinction and divergence of character. . . . As all living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long Before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succes• by generation has never even been broken, and that no cataclysm \ge] has desolated the whole...

...and a new earth formed. Darwin assumes that " no cataclysm has desolated the whole world, and that we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length," in which, "judging from the past, we may infer safely that not one livipg species will transmit its...

...and a new earth formed. Darwin assumes that " no cataclysm has desolated the whole world, and that we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length," in which, "judging from the past, we may infer safely that not one living species will transmit its...

...and procreate new and dominant species. As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch,...has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm las desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with eome confidence to a secure future of equally...

...and procreate new and dominant species. As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch,...no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence wo may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural...