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" I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. "
The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal - Page 155
1878
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Proceedings of the Meeting of the Officers of Colleges and Academies: Held ...

State University of New York - 1864 - 72 lehte
...sets up a shadowy doctrine of transmutation, and all his reasoning ends in this grand conclusion : " I believe that animals have descended from at most...four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have...
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De la pluralité des races humaines: essai anthropologique

Georges Pouchet - 1864 - 260 lehte
...cette lutte (1) Darwin, On the Oriijin of Specîes, London, 1861, p. 518 : « I believe that animais have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. — Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely to the belief that ail animais and plants have descended...
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Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, 4. köide

Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club - 1860 - 414 lehte
...plainly show that an early progenitor has the organ in a fully developed state." " I believe," says he, "that animals have descended from, at most, only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or a lesser number." "Analogy would lead me one step further — viz., to the belief that all animals...
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Half-hours with Freethinkers

John Watts - 1865 - 206 lehte
...which the countless forms of animal and vegetable life are distinguished from each other. All existing animals have descended from at most only four or five...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would even lead to the inference that " all the organic beings which have ever lived on this...
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Christian Certainty

Samuel Wainwright - 1865 - 510 lehte
...be found. Their place has to be supplied by conjecture. Thus eg, Mr. Darwin says, " I cannot doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same class."" And again: "I can indeed hardly doubt that all vertebrate animals having true lungs, have descended,...
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The First Man and His Place in Creation: Considered on the Principles of ...

George Moore - 1866 - 396 lehte
...reply from a being sprung only from mucus. Mr. Darwin's faith is modified differently ; he says, ' I believe that animals have descended from at most...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.'* This is pure and simple faith with which reason has nothing to do, and is not sustained by an approach...
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Analysis of Darwin, Huxley and Lyell, Being a Critical Examination of the ...

Henry A. DuBois - 1866 - 112 lehte
...own showing, merely a fanciful hypothesis. He accounts for the origin of creation as follows : — " I believe that animals have descended from at most...or five progenitors, and plants, from an equal or less number. Therefore I should infer, from analogy, that probably all the organic beings which have...
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Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or ..., 1. köide

1867 - 524 lehte
...pattern, and at an embryonic age the species closely resemble 'each other. Therefore I cannot doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. " Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended...
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The New Englander, 26. köide

1867 - 830 lehte
...of the organic kingdoms is composed of the modified descendants of a common ancestor, he believes " that animals have descended from at most only four...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." * But he is inclined to go further, and it does not seem to him incredible "that from some such low...
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Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or ..., 2. köide

1867 - 510 lehte
...hypothesis, which is, not that some races have thus originated, but that all have. Mr. Darwin believes " that animals have descended from at most only four...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." * Analogy, indeed, would lead him " one step farther," namely, to the belief that " all animals and...
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