To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth... Darwinism and Design; Or, Creation by Evolution - Page 128by George St. Clair - 1873 - 259 lehteFull view - About this book
| Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - 1885 - 730 lehte
...declares that when he views all things, not as special creations, but as lineal descendants of some very few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seemed to him to become ennobled ; and his views are weightily endorsed ; for many very able men in... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1860 - 594 lehte
...trust that when his great work is forthcoming, he will not put forward any such frantic position. " When I view all beings not as special creations, but...Silurian system was 'deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled." (p. 489). Is it an ennobling idea that a pedigree which ends with, " who was the son of... | |
| 1860 - 982 lehte
...the individual.' When he views ' all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendents of some few beings which lived long before the first...of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to him to become ennobled.' We confess some doubt and some uneasiness here. ' Judging from the past, we... | |
| 1861 - 562 lehte
...power and capacity by gradation ; light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. ***** When I view all beings not as special creations, but...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... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 lehte
...should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual. "When I view all beings not as special creations,...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... | |
| 1861 - 734 lehte
...beings," he says, " not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings who lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to be ennobled." I am afraid that the honour of this parentage, as regards our own species,, will not... | |
| 1861 - 374 lehte
...swimming-bladder" — Mr Darwin regards as the noblest claim of ancestry. " When I view all beings," he says, " not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings who lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to be ennobled."... | |
| 1861 - 388 lehte
...swimming-bladder" — Mr Darwin regards as the noblest claim of ancestry. " When I view all beings," he says, " not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings who lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to be ennobled."... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 lehte
...should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual. When I view all beings not as special creations, but...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... | |
| 1863 - 578 lehte
...length of ancestral line is here ! " When I view all beings, not as special creations," he says, " but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silnresu system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled." No doubt, tastes differ, so Mr.... | |
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