 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...  The Dublin Review - Side 68redigeret af - 1860Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Charles Darwin - 1884 - 396 sider
...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...beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. Judging from the past, we may safely... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1884 - 798 sider
...each geological epoch was honoured by the vivification of a prototype ; the several prototypes were " some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited " (p. 428). 3. " A cabbage may have been the parent plant, a fish the... | |
 | 1884 - 828 sider
...each geological epoch was honoured by the vivification of a prototype ; the several prototypes were " some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited " (p. 428). 3. "A cabbage may have been the parent plant, a fish the... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1887 - 296 sider
...should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of an individual. When I view all beings, not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings who lived before the first bed of the Silurian was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. There... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1888 - 856 sider
...as he is concerned nothing but ' unverifiable hypotheses.' For, as he puts it, he views all beings ' as the lineal descendants of some few beings which...the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited. 't He does not attempt to show us who these ' few beings ' were. But it answers our purpose quite as... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1892 - 708 sider
...as he is concerned nothing but " unverifiable hypotheses." For, as he puts it, he views all beings " as the lineal descendants of some few beings which...first bed of the Silurian system was deposited."! He does not attempt to show us who these " few beings " were. But it answers our purpose quite as well,... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1893 - 384 sider
...the scientific basis on which Darwin rests, when observation leads him to this declaration : — ' I view all beings, not as special creations, but as...beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited.' 3 I ' Biology, ' Encyc. Brit. 9th ed. II Mechanisch-Physiologiache... | |
 | 1875 - 800 sider
...capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown upon the origin of man and his history " (Ibid., p. 488). "... I view all beings, not as special creations, but as...descendants of some few beings which lived long before tho first bed of the Silurian system was deposited. ..." (Ibid., pp. 488, 489). " As all the living... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 360 sider
...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...beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. Judging from the past, wo may safely... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 492 sider
...should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of an individual. When I view all beings not as special creations, but...beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. Judging from the past, we may safely... | |
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