...innumerable species inhabiting this world have been modelled somehow, so as to be in possession of that perfection of structure and coadaptation which most justly excites our admiration. The how, religiously considered, may be a question of mode rather than of principle. Whether a wonderful...

...of naturalists, the majority of whom, in showing how the innumerable species inhabiting this globe have been modified, so as to acquire that perfection of structure and adaptation to their own particular locality, attribute mainly the external conditions, such as food,...

...might come to the conclusion that each species had not been independently created, but had descended, like varieties, from other species. Nevertheless such a conclusion, even if well founded, would he unsatisfactory, until it could be shown how the innumerable species inhabiting this world have been...

...But the conclusion would not be satisfactory till it could be shown how the different species were modified so as to acquire that perfection of structure and co-adaptation which excite our admiration. Mr. Darwin admits that external conditions, such as climate and food, may have...

...have seen in progress. Mr. Darwin speaks of "the innumerable species inhabiting the world as having been modified so as to acquire that perfection of...coadaptation which most justly excites our admiration;" but he goes on to say, " Naturalists continually refer to external conditions, such as climate, food,...

...facts, might come to the conclusion that species had not been independently created, but had descended, like varieties, from other species. Nevertheless,...that perfection of structure and coadaptation which justly excites our admiration. Naturalists continually refer to external conditions, such as climate,...

...species had not been independently created, but had descended like varieties from other species; but such a conclusion, even if well founded, would be...coadaptation which most justly excites our admiration." Darwin's answer has stamped his name upon the system. Owen : " One main aim of (Javier's successors...

...species had not been independently created, but hadidescended like varieties from other species; but such a conclusion, even if well founded, would be...coadaptation which most justly excites our admiration." Darwin's answer has stamped his name upon the system. Owen : " One main aim of Cuvier's successors...

...the conclusion that species had not been independently created, but had descended, like vaiieties, from other species. Nevertheless, such a conclusion,...that perfection of structure and coadaptation which justly excites our admiration. Naturalists continually refer to external conditions, such as climate,...

...But the conclusion would not be satisfactory till it could be shown how the different species were modified so as to acquire that perfection of structure and co-adaptation which excite our admiration. Darwin admitted that external conditions, such as climate and food, may have...