 | Charles Dickens - English literature - 1860 - 638 pages
...queen bee for her own fertile daughters ; and at other such cases. Judging from the past, we are to infer that not one living species will transmit its...species now living, very few will transmit progeny of auy kind to a far-distant futurity ; for the manner in which all organic beings are grouped, shows... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will...grouped, shows that the greater number of species of each genus, and all the species of many genera, have left no descendants, but have become utterly... | |
 | Gilbert Rorison - Evolution - 1861 - 192 pages
...all doubt, * Lyell's Principles of Geology, B. III. Ch. ii. Compare — "Judgeing from the past we may safely infer that not one living species will...transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity. . . Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And... | |
 | Science - 1861 - 374 pages
...secure future of equally inappreciable length," in which, "judging from the past, we may infer safely that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity." On the dogma, natura non facit saltum, Dr Bree makes some valuable remarks ; and in pages 52 to 61... | |
 | Natural history - 1861 - 562 pages
...of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. Judging from the past we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to distant futurity. * * * * * As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1864 - 472 pages
...of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will...grouped, shows that the greater number of species of each genus, and all the species of many genera, have left no descendants, but have become utterly... | |
 | John Watts - Free thought - 1865 - 206 pages
...the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to him to become ennobled." " Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will...are grouped shows that the greater number of species of each genus, and all the species of many genera, have left no descendants, but have become utterly... | |
 | Samuel Wilberforce - 1874 - 406 pages
...gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.' ' Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will...species now living very few will transmit progeny to a far-distant futurity. . . . We may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable... | |
 | Science - 1874 - 800 pages
...and, by so adding to the diversity 1 Especially when Mr. Darwin says : " Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will...transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity." — "Origin of Species " (1872), sixth edition, p. 428. 8 " First Principles," second edition, pp.... | |
 | H. Charlton Bastian - Electronic books - 1874 - 216 pages
...or kinship, is regarded as highly improbable by Mr. Darwin, who says: — "Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will...transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity." — Origin of Species, (1872) 6th edit. p. 428. « of what he presumes to be ancient though almost... | |
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Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity. And of the species now living very few will transmit progeny of any kind to a far distant futurity... 
