 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 368 pages
...few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning, endless forms...and most wonderful have been and are being evolved. CHAPTER XX. DEPARTMENTS OF EXPRESSION — FICTION. Lessons of wisdom have never such power over us... | |
 | Franz Heinrich Reusch - 1886 - 396 pages
...plants and animals which have existed, or still exist, have found their place. Darwin may well say, "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its...most wonderful have been and are being evolved."* The hypothesis is grand, no doubt, but is it admissible, that is, does it suffice to explain all the... | |
 | Salem Wilder - 1886 - 368 pages
...Darwin closed his enlarged and corrected sixth edition of the " Origin of Species " with these words : " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...most wonderful have been, and are being evolved." Here Darwin acknowledges that the Creator originally breathed life into " a few forms or into one."... | |
 | Franz Heinrich Reusch - 1886 - 394 pages
...Darwin may well say, "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having beeii originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms...most wonderful have been and are being evolved."* The hypothesis is grand, no doubt, .but is it admissible, that is, does it suffice to explain all the... | |
 | Charles Force Deems, John Bancroft Devins - 1886 - 508 pages
...organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form — and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according...and most wonderful have been and are being evolved (chap. xiv.). Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers... | |
 | Junius Benjamin Remensnyder - 1886 - 382 pages
...this view of life, with all its powers, having been originally breathed into one form; and that, while this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed...most wonderful, have been, and are being evolved."* That is, from the lowest possible form of Protozoic life, by insensible changes and developments, and... | |
 | Joseph Thomas Cunningham - 1886 - 48 pages
...breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that whilst this planet has gone on cycling according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple...most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." But as Darwin's spirit of inquiry and speculation could not be stopped by the dogma that species were... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1887 - 720 pages
...Species,' which no one would suppose to have been written at random. ' There is a grandeur,' he writes, ' in this view of life with its several powers, having...most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.' In this passage the words ' by the Creator ' were absent in the first edition, and were added in the... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1887 - 738 pages
...Species,' which no one would suppose to have been written at random. ' There is a grandeur,' he writes, ' in this view of life with its several powers, having...most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.' In this passage the words ' by the Creator ' were absent in the first edition, and were added in the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 570 pages
...There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one ; and that whilst this...most wonderful have been, and are being evolved." one stock, and since distributed by such means as we can recognise, may be thought to explain nothing.... | |
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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning... 
