 | William Nelson Pendleton - 1860 - 362 pages
...approval. This is the summing up of the theorist himself, (p. 419, nearly the last page of his book:) "I believe that animals have descended from at most...four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants... | |
 | 1860 - 880 pages
...especial study for twenty years, and whose opinions are of weight, and worthy of consideration : — " I believe that animals have descended from at most...four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants... | |
 | 1860 - 890 pages
...cannot doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same class. I believe that animals have descended from at most...four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1860 - 638 pages
...that the theory of descent, with modification, embraces all the members of the same class. He believes that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead him one step further ; namely, to the belief that, in the beginning,... | |
 | 1860 - 794 pages
...descent with modification embraces all the members of the same class." Furthermore, " I believe that all animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lessor number." Seeing that analogy as strongly suggests a further step in the same direction, while... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1860 - 1176 pages
...12mo. pp. 432. from the facts of animal and vegetable life warrants the conclusion, that all living animals " have descended from, at most, only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants... | |
 | 1860 - 444 pages
...oecial study for twenty years, and whose opinions are of weigL ,, and worthy of consideration:—" I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1860 - 594 pages
...cannot doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same class. I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plauts from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief... | |
 | Crosthwaite and co - 1860 - 622 pages
...the orders of a class, are but the offspring from single primordial forms. " I believe," he says, " that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from au equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animal*... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1860 - 612 pages
...gradually produce another species, but he extends this doctrine, " to all members of the same close " ; " I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, ami plants from an equal or lesser number Analogy would lead me one step further. namely, to the belief... | |
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I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype.... 
