| Erasmus Darwin - 1801 - 602 pages
...imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arii'en from one liv; ing filament, which THE. ; flu BAT FIBST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with nqw propenfities, directed by irritations, fenfations, volitions, and aflbciations ; and thus pofTefling... | |
| 412 pages
...millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind — would it be too bold to imagine that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one...filament, which the great first cause endued with animalily, (mark this, gah'aniziny Mr Weeks and Mr Vestige,) with the power of acquiring new parts,... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1879 - 436 pages
...millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind —would it be too bold to imagine that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one...First Cause endued with animality, with the power of attaining new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions,... | |
| William Andrews - 1880 - 342 pages
...millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind — would it be too bold to imagine that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which the Great First Cause endowed with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed... | |
| Benjamin G. Ferris - 1883 - 474 pages
...tendency given to such germ when created. In regard to warm blooded animals, he suggested that they have arisen from one living filament, which " THE...parts, attended with new propensities, directed by imitations, sensations, volitions, and associations; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing... | |
| George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 224 pages
...Would it be too bold to imagine that in the great length of time since the earth began to exist ... all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living...which the Great First Cause endued with animality ; . . . possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering... | |
| Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond - 1894 - 472 pages
...species, and he even went back to the " origin ; " and to use his own words, " was bold to imagine thwt all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living...thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve liy its own inherent activity, and of delivering down these improvements by generation to its posterity,... | |
| James Hutchison Stirling - 1894 - 392 pages
...depends." And so, the strain continues, considering all these things, " would it be too Iwld to imagine that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament which THE GUKAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities,... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 pages
...that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament?" — asks the elder Darwin — "from one living filament which the great First Cause...irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations ?" This is in itself doubtlessly a much higher achievement of constructive imagination than anything... | |
| Richard Acland Armstrong - 1901 - 276 pages
...than as a man of science, nevertheless wrote these pregnant words : " Would it be too bold to imagine that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which the Great First Cause endowed with animality, . . . possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity,... | |
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