 Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless all living things have much in common, in their chemical composition,...  The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist - Page 1191860Full view - About this book
 | Ebenezer Dodge - Apologetics - 1869 - 264 pages
...M. Gaudry and others, not only admits, but necessitates, a beginning. Darwin says, " I should infer that probably all the organic beings which have ever...primordial form, into which life was first breathed by the Creator." Now, this extreme hypothesis requires the very highest exercise of creative power,... | |
 | Anthropology - 1869 - 688 pages
...from, at most, only four or five progenitors ; and that analogy would even lead to the inference that " all the organic beings which have ever lived on this...from some one primordial form, into which life was at first breathed." Vogt, on the contrary, deals directly with man's origin, and, applying the hypothesis... | |
 | 1869 - 590 pages
...descended from one prototype. ... I should infer from analogy, that probably all the organic being» which have ever lived on this earth, have descended...primordial form, into which life was first breathed.' It will thus be seen that the cardinal principles of the theory consist in the variability observed... | |
 | 1869 - 632 pages
...from an equal or less number." " Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organized beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life waa first breathed." (Page 240.) The facts upon which this astounding theory professes to be founded,... | |
 | Edward HAUGHTON (M.D.) - 1869 - 106 pages
...would lead to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. . . . Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived upon this earth, have descended from some one primordial form into which life was first breathed by... | |
 | Great Britain - 1869 - 974 pages
...plainly evidenced by the circumstance that Mr. C. Darwin, in his " Origin of Species," page 484, asserts that " probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth nave descended from one primordial form, into which bfe was at first breathed." This assertion is directly... | |
 | Gouverneur Mather Smith - 1870 - 82 pages
...animated with new impulses for the future. Philosophers of the Darwinian school may contend that " all the organic beings which have ever lived on this...primordial form into which life was first breathed ; " but when these same philosophers are associated with their confreres believing in the plurality... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1870 - 468 pages
...intermediate production both animals and plants might possibly have been developed. Therefore I should infer that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some o primordial form, into which life was first breathed by t Creator. But this inference is chiefly grounded... | |
 | 1866 - 694 pages
...have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants, from an equal ur less number. Therefore I should infer, from analogy, that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on the earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed." p. 420.... | |
 | 1871
...Species. 727 what was then done toward bringing successive generations into being. The theory that ' all organic beings which have ever lived on this earth...primordial form into which life was first breathed,' as was also long since announced by Mr. Darwin, necessarily involves other considerations besides those... | |
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