 There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning...  The Science-history of the Universe - Page 132edited by - 1909Full view - About this book
 | William Fraser - Bible and science - 1875 - 452 pages
...on this earth have descended from some one form into which life was first breathed by the Creator: "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its...by the Creator into a few forms, or into one."* And all • "Origin. of Species," p. 570; fifth edition, 1869. the changes which have ever been educed... | |
 | Jonathan Holt Titcomb (bp. of Rangoon.) - Belief and doubt - 1875 - 268 pages
...from the hands of a Creator. He says in one place, " There is grandeur in this view of life with B 2 its several powers having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms, or into one." ' There are but two bases of belief upon which we can at all conceive the origination of this power... | |
 | John Cotton Smith - 1876 - 272 pages
...the works of Mr. Darwin, one of the most distinguished representatives of this school : " There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers,...the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on, according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning,... | |
 | Medicine - 1876 - 528 pages
...a Doctrine vntanclioaed by Science. ISy TIIOHAS WHAETOK JONES, FHS, &c. 1876, pp. CO. " There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers...the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning... | |
 | Andrew Martin Fairbairn - History - 1876 - 424 pages
...presentment subtly masked. The concluding sentence of the " Origin of Species " will be remembered : " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or one ; and that while this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1876 - 794 pages
...evolution of life" includes its origin, and others attribute this to creation. Thus, Mr. Darwin speaks of ''life with its several powers, having been originally...breathed by the Creator into a few forms, or into one," but Dr. Chapman says there are " no vital forces which are not convertible into physical ones ; " and... | |
 | Ransom Bethune Welch - Positivism - 1876 - 320 pages
...animals have descended from at most four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number ; life with its several powers, having been originally...breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one." * The hypothesis of " natural and sexual selection," even if established, could not be decisive of... | |
 | Herbert William Morris - Bible and science - 1876 - 736 pages
...animal development, he is constrained to resort to Divine agency ; for he speaks in one place of 'life having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms, or one ; ' and in another place of ' animals having descended from at most four or five progenitors.'... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - Science - 1877 - 600 pages
...unconsciously influenced in some way by the memory of Darwin's eloquent words, which are as follow : — " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...the Creator into a few forms or into one, and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning... | |
 | Science - 1877 - 612 pages
...unconsciously influenced in some way by the memory of Darwin's eloquent words, which are as follow : — " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...the Creator into a few forms or into one, and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning... | |
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