 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1871 - 728 pages
...the origin of species. It will be remembered that the object of this author was to show " that all animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." The theory, therefore, that new varieties and new races could be established by selection... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1862 - 782 pages
...stupendous absurdity of his conclusion. This is expressed as follows: "I believe that animals (t. «., all animals) have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants (all) from an equal or lesser number." . . . "I should infer, from analogy, that probably all the organic... | |
 | 1872 - 366 pages
...^?\ / primordial form into which life was first breathed by the Creator." Again, in the same page, " I believe that animals have descended from at most...four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." In the last page he repeats his notion of the descent of organic beings from " either... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1872 - 768 pages
...operation of natural causes. In his work on the "Origin of Species" he says: "I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors ; and plants from an equal or lesser number." On the same page,1 however, he goes much further, and says : " Analogy would lead me... | |
 | George St. Clair - 1873 - 280 pages
...greatly different from them, but does not take us back to the origin of living matter. Mr Darwin believes that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number, but considers the question of their firs: origin to be at present quite beyond the scope... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1873 - 522 pages
...animals have descended, at most, from 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 which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from. Borne one primordial form, into... | |
 | 1874 - 800 pages
...point of view. Speaking of the probable commencement of Life upon our globe, Mr. Darwin says ' : " 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... | |
 | Montgomery Albert Ward - 1874 - 180 pages
...With regard to the first origin of life on this globe, I shall here quote Mr. Darwin's hypothesis. " 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... | |
 | Henry Cowles - 1874 - 432 pages
...plants have descended from some one prototype." name of Darwin holds that all the animals of our globe "have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number;" * and moreover, that man has in this respect no pre-eminence above the beasts, but... | |
 | H. Charlton Bastian - 1874 - 216 pages
...Darwin says * : — " I believe that animals have * Origin of Species, 6th edit. 1872, pp. 424 and 429. 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... | |
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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.... 
