 ... would it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen...  Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life ... - Page 238by Erasmus Darwin - 1801Full view - About this book
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1818 - 616 pages
...and by considering in how minute a proportion of time many of the changes of animals above described have been produced; would it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of... | |
 | 412 pages
...animals, and at the same time of the great changes they undergo, both before and after their nativity, would it be too bold to imagine that in the great length of time since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of... | |
 | Ernst Ludwig Krause - 1879 - 230 pages
...and by considering " in how minute a portion of time many of " the changes of animals above described have " been produced ; would it be too bold to " imagine, that in the great length of time, " since the earth began to exist, perhaps " millions of ages before the commencement " of the history... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1879 - 436 pages
...nativity; and by considering in how minute a portion of time many of the changes of animals above described have been produced; would it be too bold to imagine that in the great length of time » ' Voyage to China,' p. 113. since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the... | |
 | Ernst Krause - Biologists - 1879 - 224 pages
...and by considering " in how minute a portion of time many of " the changes of animals above described have " been produced ; would it be too bold to " imagine, that in the great length of time, " since the earth began to exist, perhaps " millions of ages before the commencement " of the history... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1880 - 668 pages
...; and by considering in how minute a portion of time many of the changes of animals above described have been produced ; would it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of... | |
 | William Andrews - Derbyshire (England) - 1880 - 342 pages
...origin to the same kind of living filaments, which may be gathered from the following extract : — " Would it be too bold to imagine that, in the great length of time since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of... | |
 | Robert Reid Howison - Creation - 1883 - 660 pages
...opinion of Lamarck." Certainly he shadowed forth the notions of protoplasm and evolution in the words, " Would it be too bold to imagine that in the great length of time since the earth began to exist — perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history... | |
 | Joseph Young Bergen - Evolution - 1884 - 268 pages
...and by considering in how minute a proportion of time many of the changes of animals above described have been produced, would it be too bold to imagine that in the great length of time since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - Evolution - 1887 - 228 pages
...colour of them. . . . The contrivanaes for the purposes of security extend even to vegetables. . . . Would it be too bold to imagine that in the great length of time since the earth began to exist ... all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which... | |
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