...point of view. Speaking of the probable commencement of Life upon our globe, Mr. Darwin says ' : " I believe that animals have descended from at most...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...

...plants have descended from some one prototype." name of Darwin holds that all the animals of our globe "have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number;" * and moreover, that man has in this respect no pre-eminence above the beasts, but has descended in...

...Darwin says * : — " I believe that animals have * Origin of Species, 6th edit. 1872, pp. 424 and 429. descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended...

...with persistent obliviousness of Mr. Darwin's admission " that animals have descended from at most four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number; life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into...

...avowed as the accepted consequence of the adoption of his principle. I believe that all animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants are descended...

...amply sufficient for me, of which the following will serve for exampllpa. I believe—" I cannot doubt, that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same class." " I can indeed hardly doubt that all vertebrate animals having true lungs are descended by ordinary generation...

...pattern, and at a very early a?e the embryos closely resemble each other. Therefore I cannot doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same great class or kingdom. I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors,...

...every year of the fifteen which have elapsed — introduced such conclusions as the following : — " I believe that animals have 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 organic...

...expounded by Mr. Darwin and others. Mr. Darwin's theory assumes that animals have descended, at most, from only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number ; but analogy would lead him farther, namely, to some one prototype. Accordingly, he infers that probably...

...these special questions of the Theory of Descent ; at the conclusion he only expresses his conjecture " that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number." But as these few aboriginal forms still show traces of relationship, and as the animal...