 | 1868 - 540 pages
...of dormant gemmules, which occasionally become developed under certain known and unknown conditions Finally, the power of propagation possessed by each...inconceivably minute, and as numerous as the stars in heaven." We should certainly hesitate to accept this hypothesis, but it relates to a subject on which no rational... | |
 | 1868 - 690 pages
...its kind through the sole agency of the reproductive system, but each cell generates its kind. .... Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm,...inconceivably minute, and as numerous as the stars in heaven." The hypothesis of " pangenesis " thus rests on the assumption of various special powers not manifested... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1868 - 664 pages
...complexity of an organic being ; but, on the hypothesis here advanced, this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm...inconceivably minute, and as numerous as the stars in the heaven." In regard to the latter portion of this paragraph, we cordially award to the able author... | |
 | 1868 - 676 pages
...complexity of an organic being ; but, on the hypothesis here advanced, this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm...inconceivably minute, and as numerous as the stars in the heaven." In regard to the latter portion of this paragraph, we cordially award to the able author... | |
 | 1869 - 400 pages
...transmission of inherited peculiarities from a grandfather, say, through a daughter to a grandehild ; for hybridism." Darwin says, at the conclusion of...Darwin's work on " The Variation of Animals and Plants undei1 Domestication," and to the review above quoted. ORGANIC PROGRESSION OF ANIMALS OF THE SAME FAMILY.... | |
 | 1889 - 442 pages
...representing a separate hereditary character, or as Darwin himself has expressed it: " an organic being is a microcosm — a little universe, formed of a host...self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and numerous as the stars in heaven." The question, which of these opposed views is nearest to the truth,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1876 - 544 pages
...confessedly is, to connect under one point of view these several grand classes of facts. An organic being is a microcosm — a little universe, formed of a host...self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and numerous as the stars in heaven. 39 CHAPTER XXVIII. CONCLUDING REMARKS. DOMESTICATION — NATt'HE AND... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1877 - 504 pages
...complexity of an organic being ; but on the hypothesis here advanced, this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm, a little universe, formed of a host of self propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven." 1 At what... | |
 | Alexander Wilford Hall - 1883 - 552 pages
...an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each Ihing creature must be looked at as a microcosm — a little...inconceivably minute, and as numerous as the stars of heaven." — Animals and Plants, vol. ii., p. 483. The "hypothesis" to which Mr. Darwin here alludes... | |
 | Alexander Wilford Hall - 1880 - 544 pages
...complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here adranced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm...self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute, and as numerous its the start of heaven. " — Animals and Plants, vol. ii., p. 483. The "hypothesis" to which Mr.... | |
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Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm — a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven. 
