 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - 1877 - 968 pages
...Tyndall'e. In his " Origin of Species," Darwin says: "I should infer from analogy, that probably-all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form." Again : "I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some beings... | |
 | Eclectic Medical Society of the State of New York - 1878 - 442 pages
...him, have another theory to the same effect as Tyndall's. In his " Origin of Species," Darwin Bays : "I should infer from analogy, that probably all the...this earth have descended from some one primordial form." Again : " I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - 1881 - 348 pages
...prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless all living things have much in common, . . . Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably...this earth have descended from some one primordial form into which life was first breathed."1 But this "belief," which Mr. Darwin thinks "probable," this... | |
 | William Denton - 1881 - 200 pages
...life's commencement upon our globe will not bear very close scrutiny. He thinks it probable that " all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed by the Creator." ' That all living beings have descended from... | |
 | Roscoe Lorenzo Eames - 1883 - 256 pages
...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 lived on this earth have descended from some primordial form into which life was first breathed." The interest that this theory has awakened may... | |
 | Atheistic platform - 1884 - 204 pages
...under the latter view ? A few phrases are frequently quoted to prove that it does. Darwin writesthat "probably all the organic beings which have ever lived...this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed by the Creator." In another place he writes : "The Creator... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1885 - 342 pages
...prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless, all living things have much in common. Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably...this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed by the Creator.''* * Darwin's Origin of Species, p. 484. E... | |
 | Charles Force Deems, John Bancroft Devins - 1886 - 508 pages
...creatures of fire and children of the sun." Parallel doctrines can readily be quoted from modern writers. " Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably...this earth have descended from some one primordial form — and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1887 - 362 pages
...animals, or that the poison secreted by the gad-fly produces monstrous growths on the wild rose and the oak-tree. Therefore I should infer from analogy that...this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed." This is all very carefully worded, yet Darwin was not satisfied,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 590 pages
...[of] how life originates.) I thought I was universally condemned on * ' Origin,' edit. ip 484. — " Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably...this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed." this head. But I answered that though perhaps it would have... | |
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Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed. 
