 | 1873 - 558 pages
...Darwin's ' Origin of Species': — "There is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into...planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning, endless forms, most beautiful and most wonderful, have... | |
 | William Fraser - Bible and science - 1873 - 406 pages
...first breathed by the Creator,—"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." 1 And all the changes which have been educed are due, he tells us, to Natural Selection,—a force... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - Religion and science - 1873 - 518 pages
...valueless. Mr. Darwin speaks of " this planet cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity," whilst " endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved." But what as to the origin of this "fixed law of gravity," and of " this planet" itself, and of the... | |
 | Charles Hodge - Evolution - 1874 - 190 pages
...higher animals directly follows. There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into...most wonderful have been, and are being evolved." (p. 579) In another of his works, he asks, " Did He (God) ordain that crop and tail-feathers of the... | |
 | Samuel Wilberforce - 1874 - 406 pages
...progress towards perfection.' ' There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, and having been originally breathed by the Creator into...and most wonderful have been and are being evolved !' Surely there is a far grander tone of vaticination about these words of caution from a far greater... | |
 | Literature - 1874 - 1058 pages
...descended from some one prototype. . . . There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into...most wonderful, have been and are being evolved." Taking into account the phraseology made use of in the above quotation, we have little difficulty in... | |
 | H. Charlton Bastian - Electronic books - 1874 - 216 pages
...descended from some one prototype. . . . There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into...most wonderful, have been and are ^ being evolved." Taking into account the phraseology made use of in the above quotation, we have little difficulty in... | |
 | Religion and science - 1874 - 250 pages
...representatives of this school : " There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into...most wonderful, have been and are being evolved." Another point to which I would refer is the charge of materialism, which is made very generally against... | |
 | Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society - Natural history - 1884 - 820 pages
...necessary that the holding of such views should lead to Materialism. No greater mistake could be made. 806 cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity,...most wonderful have been, and are being evolved." If in tracing out the plan of the Creation it is ultimately demonstrated that all forms of life have... | |
 | Samuel Wilberforce - History - 1874 - 412 pages
...progress towards perfection.' 'There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, and having been originally breathed by the Creator into...few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet lias gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms... | |
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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... 
