 | 1860 - 566 pages
...external influence, or of exceptional birth or development. Nay, Mr. Darwin goes so far as to affirm — 'All the most eminent palaeontologists, namely, Cuvier, Owen, Agassiz, Barrande, Falconer, E. Forbes, &c., and all our greatest geologists, as Lyell, Murchison, Sedgwick, &c., have unanimously, often vehemently,... | |
 | Geological Society of London - 1897 - 928 pages
...strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature. We see this in the plainest manner by the fact that all the most eminent palaeontologists, namely, Cuvier,...vehemently, maintained the immutability of species.' No one could now venture to blame our predecessors for the cautious attitude which they assumed in... | |
 | William Nelson Pendleton - 1860 - 362 pages
...Lyell, and otherwise, attempting to diminish the force of the fact, is obliged to admit (p. 271) that "all the most eminent palaeontologists, namely, Cuvier,...vehemently (?) maintained the immutability of species." This, however, well-nigh conclusive as it is, may not be sufficient toward the truth we wish to exhibit... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 pages
...strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature. We see this in the plainest manner by the fact that all the most eminent palaeontologists, namely Cuvier, Owen, Agassiz, Barrande, Falconer, E. Forbes, &c., and all our greatest geologists, as Lyell, Murchison, Sedgwick, &c., have unanimously, often vehemently,... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1872 - 768 pages
...palaeontologists, namely, Cuvier, i Origin of Speciss, p. 664. 2 Ibid. p. 570. Agassiz, Barrande, Pictet, Falconer, E. Forbes, etc., and all our greatest geologists,...vehemently, maintained the immutability of species." 1 In 1830 there was a prolonged discussion of this subject in the Academic des Sciences in Paris, Cuvier... | |
 | Stephen Alexander Hodgman - 1881 - 320 pages
...this in the fact that the most eminent palaeontologists, namely, Cuvier, Aga: siz, Barrand, Pictet, Falconer, E. Forbes, etc., and all our greatest geologists,...Lyell, M-urchison, Sedgwick, etc., have unanimously, and often, vehemently maintained the immutability of species." There can be very little satisfaction... | |
 | Stephen Alexander Hodgman - 1881 - 1240 pages
...the fact that the most eminent palaeontologists, namely, Cuvier, Agassiz, Barrand, Pictet, Fal coner, E. Forbes, etc., and all our greatest geologists,...Lyell, Murchison, Sedgwick, etc., have unanimously, and often, vehemently maintained the immutability of species." There can be very little satisfaction... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1884 - 396 pages
...this in the fact that the most eminent paleontologists, namely, Cuvier, Agassiz, Barrande, Pictet, Falconer, E. Forbes, etc., and all our greatest geologists,...vehemently, maintained the immutability of species. But Sir Charles Lyell now gives the support of his high authority to the 15 opposite side ; and most... | |
 | Joseph Smith Van Dyke - 1886 - 494 pages
...this in the fact that the most eminent palaeontologists, namely, Cuvier, Agassiz, Barrande, Pictet, Falconer, E. Forbes, etc., and all our greatest geologists, as Lyell, Murchison, Sedgwick.etc., have unanimously, often vehemently, maintained the immutability of species." Again:... | |
 | Geological Society of London - 1897 - 902 pages
...strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature. We see this in the plainest manner by the fact that all the most eminent palaeontologists, namely, Cuvier,...Forbes, etc., and all our greatest geologists, as Lyell, Murchisou, Sedgwiok, etc., have unanimously, often vehemently, maintained the immutability of species.'... | |
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... appear in our European formations; the almost entire absence, as at present known of fossiliferous formations beneath the Silurian strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature. We see this in the plainest manner by the fact that all the most... 
