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" 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... "
Organic Evolution Considered - Page 63
by Alfred Fairhurst - 1913 - 474 pages
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the ..., Volume 14

1861 - 376 pages
...we again turn to Darwin's own statement, we find that he says, " To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the...world should have been due to secondary causes, like thost determining the birth and death of the individual" (p. 489). Here we have a distinct and most...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6

1860 - 800 pages
...which life was first breathed," — coupled with the expression, "To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the...the world should have been due to secondary causes," than " that each species has been independently created," — these and similar expressions lead us...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6

1860 - 794 pages
...which life was first breathed," — coupled with the expression, " To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the...present inhabitants of the world should have been due I860.] [October, to secondary causes," than " that each species bas been independently created," —...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the ..., Volume 14

1861 - 368 pages
...we again turn to Darwin's own statement, we find that he says, " To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the...secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual" (p. 489). Here we have a distinct and most philosophical recognition of a...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pages
...isfied with the view that each species has been independently created. To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the...secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual. "When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants...
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Natural Selection Not Inconsistent with Natural Theology: A Free Examination ...

Asa Gray - 1861 - 68 pages
...which life was first breathed," — coupled with the expression, " To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the...the world should have been due to secondary causes," than " that each species has been independently created," — these and similar expressions lead us...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal

1861 - 734 pages
...if we again turn to Darwin's own statement, we find that he says, "To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production an* extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world shovld have been due to secondary causes,...
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The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining ..., Volume 2

James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1863 - 654 pages
...independently created. To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter BY THI CREATOR that the production and extinction of the...secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual."|| * These italics are our own. I Here also the italics are ours. J Origin...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 pages
...isfied with the view that each species has been independently created. To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the...secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual. When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants...
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Half-hours with Freethinkers

John Watts - 1865 - 206 pages
...parents, and have all been modified in the course of descent." To his mind " it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator that the protection and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to...
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