| Anatomy - 1862 - 638 pages
...less-improved forms. Thus from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely the production...its several powers having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forrns or into one ; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according... | |
| Anatomy - 1860 - 694 pages
...less-improved forms. Thus from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely the production...higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this.view of life , with its sevcral powers having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few... | |
| 1860 - 890 pages
...nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, thn production of the higher animals, directly follows....its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into ONE ; and that whilst this planct has gone cycling on, according... | |
| Crosthwaite and co - 1860 - 622 pages
...void caused by the action of His laws.'" And iutne final sentence of his book, Mr. Darwin observes, " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having Seen originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we 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, having been originally breathed into a few... | |
| Anthropology - 1863 - 552 pages
...That the extirpation of the lower race should be the immediate cause of "the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals,"* is a sound biological generalization. The historical event, that the autochthonous Gaulish race has... | |
| Edward Dillon Mapother - Diseases - 1864 - 578 pages
...become extinct, and " thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production...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... | |
| 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 - 1864 - 472 pages
...less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we 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, having been originally breathed into a few... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1866 - 668 pages
...less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production...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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