 | 1871 - 606 pages
...form — either directly, or indirectly through the complex laws of growth ; ' and ' if it could bo proved that any part of the structure of any one species...could not have been produced through natural selection ' (p. 220). It is almost impossible for Mr. Darwin to have used words by which more thoroughly to stake... | |
 | 1872 - 848 pages
...descendants of this form — -either directly, or indirectly, through the complex laws of growth ; " and "if it could be proved that any part of the structure...it would annihilate my theory, for such could not havo been produced by natural selection." \ Mr. Darwin could hardly have employed words by which more... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1872 - 540 pages
...to be to direct to the snake the attention of its enemies — he goes out of the way to repeat that "if it could be proved that any part of the structure...exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate his theory." Why it would annihilate his theory, we must confess we are unable to understand ; since... | |
 | Hugh Miller, Louis Agassiz - 1872 - 436 pages
...proved," says Mr Darwin, ' that any part of any one species had been formed for the BY MRS MILLER. Lti. exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate...not have been produced through natural selection." Such a writer as Dr M'Cosh, we believe, could meet this, and other positions of the same kind, of which... | |
 | Elkanah Billings, Bernard James Harrington, James Thomas Donald - 1872 - 534 pages
...certain ideas which if proved, would be fatal : " If it could be proved that any part of the structure of one species had been formed for the exclusive good...of another species, it would annihilate my theory" (p. 196). We may, for example, yet learn the use which the " rattle" and the expanded hood have for... | |
 | 1872 - 520 pages
...Indeed, with characteristic candour, he specifies certain ideas which if proved, would be fatal: " If it could be proved that any part of the structure of one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory"... | |
 | Hugh Miller, Louis Agassiz - 1873 - 432 pages
...order to the Harmony of Cosmical Bodies." " If it could be proved," says Mr Darwin, ' that any part of any one species had been formed for the exclusive...not have been produced through natural selection." Such a writer as Dr M'Cosh, we believe, could meet this, and other positions of the same kind, of which... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1876 - 486 pages
...descendants of this form — either directly, or indirectly, through the complex laws of growth ;" and " if it could be proved that any part of the structure...annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced by natural selection." f I repeat, emphatically, Mr. Darwin could hardly have employed words by which... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1876 - 488 pages
...this form—either directly, or indirectly, through the complex laws of growth;" and " if it could bo proved that any part of the structure of any one species...annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced by natural selection." t I repeat, emphatically, Mr. Darwin could hardly have employed words by which... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1876 - 492 pages
...of growth ;" and " if it could IKproved that any part of the structure of any one species had teen formed for the exclusive good of another species,...annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced by natural selection." t I repeat, emphatically, Mr. Darwin could hardly have employed words by which... | |
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If it could be proved that any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection. 
