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" sees grandeur in the " view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one : " ' ' Derivation ' sees, therein, a narrow invocation of a special miracle and an unworthy limitation of creative... "
The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 53
1869
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Crosthwaite's Register of facts and occurrences relating to literature, the ...

Crosthwaite and co - 1860 - 622 pages
...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 has gone cycling on according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so...
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On the Anatomy of Vertebrates ...: Mammals

Richard Owen - Anatomy, Comparative - 1868 - 1046 pages
...fulfilled: — To doubt the fairness were to want an eye ; To doubt the goodness were to want a heart ! ' Derivation ' holds that every species changes, in...calling into life many forms, by conversion of physical aud chemical into vital modes of force, under as many diversified conditions of the requisite elements...
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On the Anatomy of Vertebrates: Mammals

Richard Owen - Anatomy, Comparative - 1868 - 966 pages
...fulfilled : — To doubt the fairness wore to want an eye ; To doubt the goodness were to want a heart ! ' Derivation ' holds that every species changes, in...power, the grandeur of which is manifested daily, 1 ccxm". Ed. 1860. p. 490. hourly, in calling into life many forms, by conversion of physical and chemical...
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Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

Industrial arts - 1870 - 388 pages
...the view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a lew forms, or into one. ' Derivation ' sees therein a...conversion of physical and chemical into vital modes ot force, under as many diversified conditions of the requisite elements to be so combined. " * Natural...
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On the genesis of species

St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 412 pages
...circumstances. i ' Derivation' sees, among the effects of the innate tendency to change irrespective of altered circumstances, a manifestation of creative power in...conditions of the requisite elements to be so combined." The theory propounded in this work allows, however, a greater and more important share to external...
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On the Genesis of Species

St. George Jackson Mivart - Evolution - 1871 - 372 pages
...itself, should be n purpose in creation, it would be absolutely fatal to it as a hypothesis." " ' Xatural Selection ' sees grandeur in the view of life, with...conditions of the requisite elements to be so combined." The theory propounded in this work allows, however, a greater and more important share to external...
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On the Genesis of Species

St. George Jackson Mivart - Evolution - 1871 - 324 pages
...as a hypothesis." " c Natural Selection ' sees grandeur in the view of life, 16 Vol. iii., p. 808. with its several powers, having been originally breathed...conditions of the requisite elements to be so combined." The view propounded in this work allows, however, a greater and more important part to the share of...
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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
...uses the figurative language of religious mystery, and speaks " of life with its several powers being originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one." For this expression our author takes him to task, though really it could mean no more than if the gravitative...
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A young man's difficulties with his Bible, by the author of 'The Christian ...

Daniel Worcester Faunce - 1877 - 264 pages
...science says that there was originally a Creator. Even Darwin, often called an atheist, says, " Life was originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one." Owen says that " law is only secondary cause," but he holds that law is guided by the intelligence...
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Natural Science and Religion: Two Lectures Delivered to the Theological ...

Asa Gray - Natural history - 1880 - 136 pages
...another. It is not natural selection which has led Mr. Darwin and many others to believe ihat life was " originally breathed by the Creator * into a few forms or into one," and " that the • production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world has been...
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