 | Erasmus Darwin - Science - 1800 - 676 pages
...refpeft to the vegetable world, it is not jmpoffible, but the great variety of fpccies of anirpals, which now tenant the earth, may have had their origin from the mixture of a few natural orders. And that thofe animal and vegetable mules, which could continue their fpecies, have done fo, and conftitute... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - Evolution - 1801 - 602 pages
...conjectured in refpcct to the vegetable werld, it is not impoflible, but the great variety of fpecies of animals, which now tenant the earth, may have had...their origin from the mixture of a few natural orders. And that thofe animal and vegetable mules, which could continue their fpecies, have done fo, and conftitute... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - Evolution - 1803 - 622 pages
...conjectured in refpect to the vegetable world, it is not impoDible, but the great variety of fpecies of animals, which now tenant the earth, may have had...their origin from the mixture of a few natural orders. And that thofe animal and vegetable mules, which could continue their fpecies, have done fo, and swilitute... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1818 - 616 pages
...the fluids, by which it has been at first stimulated into activity. And that from hence, as Linnaeus has conjectured in respect to the vegetable world,...their origin from the mixture of a few natural orders. And that those animal and vegetable mules, which could continue their species, have done so, and constitute... | |
 | Edmund Saul Dixon - Poultry - 1848 - 388 pages
...from any other. Dr. Erasmus Darwin proceeds boldly to the work, and carries it out on a grand scale. " As Linnseus has conjectured in respect to the vegetable...their origin from the mixture of a few natural orders. " Such a promiscuous intercourse of animals is said to exist at this day in New South Wales, by Captain... | |
 | Edmund Saul Dixon - Poultry - 1857 - 544 pages
...it out on a grand scale. "As Linnaeus has conjectured in respect to th<5 vegetable world (where ?), it is not impossible but the great variety of species...their origin from the mixture of a few natural orders. " Such a promiscuous intercourse of animals is said to exist at this day in New South Wales, by Captain... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - Natural history - 1886 - 344 pages
...sensibilities, or voluntarities, or associabilities, of this original living filament.' Hence he thought it ' not impossible but the great variety of species of...origin from the mixture of a few natural orders.' Indeed, he goes further than this would imply, since he says in a later passage : ' From thus meditating... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - Science - 1925 - 492 pages
...On the origin of plants he mentions the suggestion of Linnaeus : " And that from thence, as Linnaeus has conjectured in respect to the vegetable world,...origin from the mixture of a few natural orders." Be this as it may, the plants possess the sensibility and the irritability of animals. When he digested... | |
 | Robert J. Richards - Science - 2009 - 224 pages
...voluntarities, or associabilities, of this original living filament . . . And that from hence, as Linnaeus has conjectured in respect to the vegetable world,...their origin from the mixture of a few natural orders. 2 Not only did the elder Darwin's blood pulse in the veins of his grandson, but his suggestions, ideas,... | |
 | Catherine E. Rigby - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 348 pages
...precursors was, of course, his grandfather Erasmus Darwin. In Zoonomia (i794), the elder Darwin argues that "it is not impossible but the great variety of species...had their origin from the mixture of a few natural orders."44 He also postulates that all species arose from an organic "filament" that came into being... | |
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Linnaeus has conjectured in respect to the vegetable world, it is not impossible, but the great variety of species of animals, which now tenant the earth, may have had their origin from the mixture of a few natural orders. 
