 | George McCready Price - Evolution - 1925 - 140 pages
...effects had brought about great changes in plants and animals, and that these changes had been going on "perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind." They would also continue into the future, as he said, "world without end." Lamarck (1744-1829), the... | |
 | C. Leon Harris - Science - 1981 - 360 pages
...of the changes of animals above described have been produced; would it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began...before the commencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament,... | |
 | Ernst Mayr - Science - 1982 - 996 pages
...continuing to improve" as one of the basic properties of life itself: "Would it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began...before the commencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament,... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - Science - 1991 - 312 pages
...field of air. The Botanic Garden I, i, 289 20 Would it be too bold to imagine that in the great lengths of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions...before the commencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine that all the warmblooded animals have arisen from one living filament... | |
 | Hermione de Almeida - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 429 pages
...speculated, correctly, that the evolution of life on earth began not at the traditional date of 4004 BC but "perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind. . . ." For Darwin, the physiological evidence of human evolution was borne witness in the structure... | |
 | George McCready Price - Religion - 1995 - 514 pages
...after many millions of years. Indeed, his own language was that these processes had been going on " perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind," and that these improvements may continue to go on from generation to generation " world without end."... | |
 | Jane Maienschein, Michael Ruse - Medical - 1999 - 348 pages
...reflecting on the morphological similarity of creatures, asked "Would it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, . . . that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE... | |
 | Roy Porter - History - 2000 - 772 pages
...of life, leading Darwin to hail the evolutionary process as a whole: would it be too bold to imagine that ... all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which The Great First Cause endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities,... | |
 | Rod Preece - Nature - 2002 - 436 pages
...little doubt that humans and animals were of the same origin. Would it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time since the earth began...before the commencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament,... | |
 | James Richard Moore - Science - 2002 - 456 pages
...of the changes of animals above described have been produced; would it be too bold to imagine that in the great length of time since the earth began...before the commencement of the history of mankind, all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with... | |
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... would it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine that all warm-blooded animals have arisen... 
