 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
 | Jill M. Kress - American fiction - 2002 - 290 pages
...embankment. Darwin's prose gets convoluted as he closes, switching to the passive tense, expressing a "view of life, with its several powers, having been...breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one." A profoundly ambivalent gesture, Darwin not only vacillates on the question of singular or multiple... | |
 | Library of Congress - Antiques & Collectibles - 2002 - 246 pages
...Chinese Mvths and Fantasies. 1996 There is a grandeur in [a] view of life, with its several powers, [as] 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... | |
 | Thomas Duddy - History - 2002 - 392 pages
...there is indeed a 'grandeur' in the new evolutionary idea of life, specifically in the idea of life having been 'originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one', perhaps into a single progenitor from which 'endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been,... | |
 | Claude C. Albritton - Science - 2002 - 256 pages
...natural selection as a process operating in accordance w ith natural laws, but allowed that life may have been "originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one." Even so, natural laws are human formulations — descriptions of "the sequence of events as ascertained... | |
 | William M. Dugger, Howard J. Sherman - Business & Economics - 2003 - 288 pages
...which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...or into one; and that, while this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful... | |
 | Mary Low - Christian life - 2003 - 228 pages
...which we are capable of conceiving, namely the production of the higher animals, directly follows. 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... | |
 | Keith B. Miller - Religion - 2003 - 550 pages
...ancestral original life form. Interestingly, Darwin wrote in the closing sentence of The Origin of Species: "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its...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... | |
 | Michael Banton - Biography & Autobiography - 1961 - 218 pages
...supply the voids caused by the action of His laws".' And he concludes the whole book with these words: There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that . . . from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are... | |
 | Margaret Sanger - History - 2003 - 436 pages
...are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. 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... | |
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