...which the countless forms of animal and vegetable life are distinguished from each other. All existing animals have descended from at most four or five progenitors,...and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy, (which Mr. Darwin admits to be a deceitful judge,) would even lead him to infer that "all the organic...

...animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number. — Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals ¡nul plants have descended from some one prototype" etc. (p. 484). Sluffaffung ber @афе toerbe...

...Darwin, in the work above cited, is led to believe that " animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy," he adds, " would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended...

...Darwin, in the work above cited, is led to believe that " animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analog)-," he adds, " would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants...

...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 lesser number." Seeing that analogy as strongly suggests a further step in the same direction, while he protests that...

...during these vast, yet quite unknown periods of time, the world swarmed with living creatures I believe that animals have descended from at most four or five...from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me a step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype....

...conclusions at which the latter writer arrives are, " that animals have descended from, at most, only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." " I should infer," says he, " from analogy, that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived...

...sprung from a few individuals at most. He says : I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. . . . I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on the...

...convinced that species are not immutable. ... I believe that all animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. . . . Probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on the earth have descended from some one...

...Oriijin of Specîes, London, 1861, p. 518 : « I believe that animais have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal...lesser number. — Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely to the belief that ail animais and plants have descended from some one prototype. »...