 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1877 - 688 pages
...with monkey-man, has modified from its own primordial and distinctive form. Supposing that we concede that " animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors ; " * and that even a la rigueur " all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended... | |
 | 1878 - 802 pages
...follows : " 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." . . . . " Therefore, on the principle of natural selection with divergence of character,... | |
 | 1878 - 794 pages
...follows : " 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." . . . . " Therefore, on the principle of natural selection with divergence of character,... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - 1881 - 348 pages
...these are his words, 1 "Origin of Species.". First Edition (Murray : 1859), chap. xiv. pp. 489, 490. "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... | |
 | 1882 - 590 pages
...other influences of which we are probably ignorant. His own words are, " I believe that animals are 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... | |
 | Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - 1882 - 616 pages
...language : "As the most eminent living naturalist conceives it not only possible, but probable, that all animals have descended from, at most, only four or five progenitors, and all plants from an equal or lesser number, so I think that an examination of the history of human arts... | |
 | Thomas Archer (historical writer.) - 1883 - 754 pages
...he said, "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." But speculatively he went farther. " Analogy would lead me one step farther," he said,... | |
 | Thomas Archer - 1883 - 786 pages
...he said, "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." But speculative!}1 he went farther. " Analogy would lead me one step f;irther," he... | |
 | Roscoe Lorenzo Eames - 1883 - 256 pages
...the theory of descent by modification embraces all the members of the same class, and I believe all animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or a lesser number." And then here is the conclusion. " Probably all the organic beings which have ever... | |
 | Liverpool Geological Association - 1883 - 182 pages
...them as permitting the derivation of species from species ; and affirms that in his belief animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. He adds " Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals... | |
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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.... 
