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 God Delusion - Page 29by Richard Dawkins - 2011 - 464 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Anthropology - 1864 - 668 pages
...inferior animals. Moreover, he is of opinion (as expressed in th« concluding words of his volume) that " 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... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1866 - 668 pages
...to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death,...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... | |
| Henry A. DuBois - Human beings - 1866 - 112 pages
...to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production (creation ?) of the higher animals, directly follows."... | |
| George Moore - Theological anthropology - 1866 - 392 pages
...into which life was breathed by the Creator.'f Mr. Darwin says, somewhat exultingly : ' There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been breathed by the Creator into a few forms, or one.' There is, doubtless, necessarily a grandeur in any... | |
| Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 424 pages
...in the subsequent editions ; and in addition to this a long paragraph ending with this sentence, ' there is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...having been originally breathed into a few forms or one ; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so... | |
| Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 406 pages
...in the subsequent editions ; and in addition to this a long paragraph ending with this sentence, ' there is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been originally breathed into af etc forms or one ; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of... | |
| Religion and science - 1867 - 510 pages
...as these, that Mr. Warington makes his appeal to universal gravitation ; and that Mr. Darwin says, " 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... | |
| Science - 1868 - 560 pages
...the concluding remarks of his well-know; work, in which, alluding to his theory, he says " there is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or one, and that while this planet has gone cycling on, according to... | |
| Science - 1868 - 556 pages
...the concluding remarks of his well-known work, in which, alluding to his theory, he says " there is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originallv breathed by the Creator into a few forms or one, and that while this planet has gone cycling... | |
| Philip Bolton - 1870 - 1098 pages
...caused by the action of His laws.' " — Origin of Species, p. 567. The last words of the book are : "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... | |
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