 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1867 - 830 pages
...of the organic kingdoms is composed of the modified descendants of a common ancestor, he believes " that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." * But he is inclined to go further, and it does not seem to him incredible " that from... | |
 | John Crawfurd - 1868 - 76 pages
...says Mr. Darwin, ' that the theory of descent by gradation 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 even lesser number.' He is, indeed, disposed to go further than this, and to derive all organised beings... | |
 | 1869 - 632 pages
...theory ! And this is called science ! Mr. Darwin states his theory in two forms on the same page. " I believe that animals have descended from at most...progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number." " Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organized beings which have ever lived... | |
 | 1869 - 844 pages
...afraid to say extraordinary instead of " ordinary" ? CRE.YTIOX OF FIRST GERMS. Mr. Darwin believes that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. As to the first origin of these, he considers the question to be at present quite beyond... | |
 | 1869 - 688 pages
...that the transmutation doctrine must involve man ; eg, in the sweeping admission that all existing animals have descended from, at most, only four or five progenitors ; and that analogy would even lead to the inference that " all the organic beings which have ever lived on... | |
 | 1866 - 694 pages
...own showing, merely a fanciful hypothesis. He accounts for the origin of creation as follows : — " I believe that animals have descended from at most...four or five progenitors, and plants, from an equal ur less number. Therefore I should infer, from analogy, that probably all the organic beings which... | |
 | 1870 - 400 pages
...may have descended through different lines from the common blue rock-pigeon, he concludes that all animals " have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." He says, moreover, " Analogy would lead me a step further, namely, to the belief that... | |
 | 1870 - 976 pages
...specie's in the scientific meaning of the term, but also genera and families and orders ; so that all " animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. I shall here omit all notice of plants, for the truth of the hypothesis can be tested... | |
 | John Henry Pratt - 1871 - 458 pages
...his book — On the ORIGIN of Species. But they are fully expressed in the following words : — ' I believe that animals have descended from at most...four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. ... I should infer from analogy, that probably all the organic beings [plants and animals]... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1871 - 496 pages
...says, " 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." Of the latter he speaks with more reserve. " Analogy would lead me one step further,... | |
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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.... 
