| Criticism - 1860 - 1172 pages
...vegetable life warrants the conclusion, that Ml living animals "have descended from, at most, only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype.... | |
| 1875 - 828 pages
...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." On the same page he goes much further : " Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely, to...animals and plants are descended from some one prototype " ; and he adds, that all the organic beings ,which have ever lived on this earth may be descended... | |
| William Nelson Pendleton - Bible and science - 1860 - 362 pages
...nearly the last page of his book:) "I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser...namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. I should infer that probably all the organic beings which have... | |
| India - 1860 - 600 pages
...unscientific public. " I can" he says " believe that all animals have descended from ' almost only 4 or 6 progenitors, and plants from an equal or 'lesser number ; analogy would lead me one step farther, name' ly to believe that all plants and animals have descended from ' some one prototype, but analogy... | |
| 1860 - 890 pages
...all the members of the same class. I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype."... | |
| John Phillips - Life - 1860 - 280 pages
...all the members of the same class. I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. 'Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from one prototype. But analogy... | |
| Geology - 1860 - 512 pages
...all the members of the same class. I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. " Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype.... | |
| Great Britain - 1860 - 880 pages
...and worthy of consideration : — " I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype.... | |
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