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... Life on the Earth: Its Origin and Succession - Page 195by John Phillips - 1860 - 224 pagesFull view - About this book
| Anatomy - 1862 - 638 pages
...consequence to natural selection, entailing divergence of character and to the extinction of less-improved forms. Thus from the war of nature, from famine and...its several powers having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forrns or into one ; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according... | |
| 1860 - 890 pages
...nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, thn production of the higher animals, directly follows....its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into ONE ; and that whilst this planct has gone cycling on, according... | |
| Crosthwaite and co - 1860 - 622 pages
...void caused by the action of His laws.'" And iutne final sentence of his book, Mr. Darwin observes, " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having Seen originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet... | |
| Edward Dillon Mapother - Diseases - 1864 - 578 pages
...struggle for life and by the numerous variations which occur, less-improved forms become extinct, and " thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death,...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... | |
| Anthropology - 1864 - 668 pages
...inferior animals. Moreover, he is of opinion (as expressed in th« concluding words of his volume) that " 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... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1866 - 668 pages
...consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and...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... | |
| George Moore - Bible and evolution - 1866 - 396 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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