 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
 | John Henry Pratt - 1871 - 458 pages
...number. ... I should infer from analogy, that probably all the organic beings [plants and animals] which have ever lived on this earth have descended...primordial form, into which life was first breathed' (p. 484) Even God's rational creature is included in this category : — ' Light,' he says, ' will... | |
 | William George Williams - 1872 - 398 pages
...utterance is in a note, supplemental to the treatise, and in these words : " I should infer, therefore, that probably all the organic beings, which have ever...primordial form into which life was first breathed by the Creator." It is fair to say, that, among the numerous expounders of this hypothesis, there is... | |
 | John R. Leifchild - Natural theology - 1872 - 578 pages
...complex, of animal or vegetable. Mr. Darwin has even carried his views to the extreme of saying : — " Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably...have ever lived on this earth have descended from one form, into which life was breathed by the Creator." It is not practicable or desirable in this... | |
 | Creation - 1872 - 366 pages
...mythological or poetical fictions. Darwin thus states his view in the " Origin of Species," p. 484, " from analogy, that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on the earth have descended from some one . ___ „_ t _ J f £0 ^?\ / primordial form into which life... | |
 | William Fraser - Bible and science - 1873 - 406 pages
...1. number; but analogy would lead him farther, namely, to some one prototype. Accordingly, he infers that probably all the organic beings which have ever...lived on this earth, have descended from some one form into which life was first breathed by the Creator, — "There is grandeur in this view of life,... | |
 | Catholic literature - 1873 - 806 pages
...plants have descended from one prototype, and therefore infers that probably all the organic beings that ever lived on this earth have descended from some...primordial form into which life was first breathed. The progeny first became diversified into numerous species, when individuals in the struggle for life... | |
 | Montgomery Albert Ward - 1874 - 180 pages
...or that the poison secreted by the gall-fly produces monstrous growths on the wild rose or oak tree Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably...primordial form into which life was first breathed by the Creator." The organic world is divided into two great kingdoms named the Animal and Vegetable... | |
 | Samuel Wilberforce - 1874 - 406 pages
...composition, their germinal vesicles, their cellular structure, and their laws of growth and reproduction Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably...organic beings which have ever lived on this earth ' (man therefore of course included) ' have descended from some one primordial form into which life... | |
 | Samuel Wilberforce - History - 1874 - 412 pages
...composition, their germinal vesicles, their cellular structure, and their laws of growth and reproduction. Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have over lived on this earth ' (man therefore of course included) ' have descended from some one primordial... | |
 | English literature - 1875 - 702 pages
...descended from at most only four or five progenitors " (Origin of Species, 1st edition, p. 484). " I should infer from analogy that probably all the...earth have descended from some one primordial form " (Ibid., p. 484). " In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology... | |
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