As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world.... The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal - Page 1321861Full view - About this book
| Charles Dickens - 1860 - 638 pages
...feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, that no catacîysm has desolated the whole world, and that we may look...to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. But no human intellect, unaided by revelation, is at present able to make such conclusions as these... | |
| 1860 - 982 pages
...generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence, we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as Natural Selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments... | |
| John Phillips - 1860 - 280 pages
...by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments... | |
| 1861 - 388 pages
...vegetation of the present day nor that of bygone epochs of the world's history support his views as to the origin of species. He cannot produce intermediate..."judging from the past, we may infer safely that not one livipg species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity." On the dogma, natura won... | |
| Gilbert Rorison - 1861 - 192 pages
...infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity. . . Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as Natural Selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 pages
...by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1866 - 668 pages
...generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence wo may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments... | |
| 1869 - 488 pages
...by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1870 - 468 pages
...by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments... | |
| Samuel Wilberforce - 1874 - 406 pages
...futurity, and of the species now living very few will transmit progeny to a far-distant futurity. . . . We may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments... | |
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