The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1870 - Industrial arts |
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Page 269 - 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 endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Page 269 - 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 power, the grandeur of which is manifested daily, hourly, in calling into life many forms, by conversion of physical and chemical into vital modes of force, under as many diversified conditions of the requisite elements to be so combined.