 | Erasmus Darwin - Evolution - 1803 - 622 pages
...that from hence, as Linnxus has conjectured in refpect to the vegetable world, it is not impoDible, but the great variety of fpecies of animals, which...which could continue their fpecies, have done fo, and swilitute the numerous familiesof animals and vegetables which now exilt ; and that thofe mules, which... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1818 - 616 pages
...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...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
...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. " 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
...in respect to th<5 vegetable world (where ?), 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. " 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
...this original living filament.' Hence he thought it ' not impossible but the great variety of species of animals which now tenant the earth may have had...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
...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...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
...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. 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
...Zoonomia (i794), the elder Darwin argues that "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."44 He also postulates that all species arose from an organic "filament" that came into being... | |
 | Keith Stewart Thomson - Religion - 2007 - 344 pages
...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. Change is thus produced through the reproductive processes, where 'fibrils with formative appetencies,... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - Evolution - 1801 - 588 pages
...activity. "| Arid that from hence, as Linnaeus has conjectured in refpect to the vegetable world, it it -is not impoflible, but the great variety of fpecies...earth, may have had their origin from the mixture of 3 few natural orders. And that thofe animal and vegetable mules, which could continue their fpecies,... | |
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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. 