The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Data, Its Principles, Its Speculations, and Its Theistic Bearings

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Harper & Brothers, 1874 - 148 pages

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Page 119 - 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 endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.

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