On the evidence of palaeontology, the evolution of many existing forms of animal life from their predecessors is no longer an hypothesis, but an historical fact ; it is only the nature of the physiological factors to which that evolution is due which... A Primer of Darwinism and Organic Evolution - Page 28by Joseph Young Bergen, Fanny Dickerson Bergen - 1890 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Smith Williams - Nineteenth century - 1900 - 498 pages
...work of Marsh in America and of Gaudry in Pikermi, he declared that, "on the evidence of paleontology, the evolution of many existing forms of animal life...from their predecessors is no longer an hypothesis, FOOTPRINTS OF REPTILES FOUND IN CONNECTICUT SANDSTONE In the American Museum of Natural History but... | |
| Edward Clodd - Naturalists - 1902 - 278 pages
...revolution effected by the Origin of Species, that in 1878 he wrote : — On the evidence of palaeontology, the evolution of many existing forms of animal life...predecessors is no longer an hypothesis but an historical fact.1 While, in an address to the British Association at York two years afterwards, he said : —... | |
| Henry Smith Williams - Science - 1904 - 378 pages
...work of Marsh in America and of Gaudry in Pikermi, he declared that, "on the evidence of paleontology, the evolution of many existing forms of animal life...no longer an hypothesis, but an historical fact." In 1881 he asserted that the evidence gathered in the previous decade had been so unequivocal that,... | |
| Education - 1906 - 958 pages
...the organic world — in a word, evolution. In 1877, Prof. Huxley wrote, "Evolution is established; it is only the nature of the physiological factors to which that evolution is due which is still open to discussion." Let us examine this doctrine of evolution from the point of view... | |
| 1906 - 586 pages
...organic world — in a word, evolution. In 1877, Professor Huxley wrote, "Evolution is established; it is only the nature of the physiological factors to which that evolution is due which is still open to discussion." Let us examine this doctrine of evolution from the point of view... | |
| James Orr - Incarnation - 1907 - 510 pages
...suffices for the production of species remains to be seen. . . . On the evidence of palaeontology, the evolution of many existing forms of animal life from their predecessors is no longer aa hypothesis, but an historical fact ; it is only tlio nature of tlie physiological factors to which... | |
| Herbert Spencer - Philosophy - 1910 - 496 pages
...factor in that operation . . . On the evidence of palaeontology, the evolution of many existing forma of animal life from their predecessors is no longer...physiological factors to which that evolution is due which is still open to discussion." With these passages I may fitly join a remark made in the admirable... | |
| 1913 - 596 pages
...they try to spin their own cobwebs"? (£r fagt in ber Britannica: "On the evidence of paleontology, the evolution of many existing forms of animal life from their predecessors is no longer a hypothesis, but an historical fact." Sa ïommt Spencer unb fagt mit 93ebad£)t (1. c., @. 899) :... | |
| Ira Woods Howerth - Education - 1926 - 436 pages
...only theory that has any scientific evidence in its favor. Long ago Professor Huxley declared that "the evolution of many existing forms of animal life...predecessors is no longer an hypothesis, but an historical fact."2 Other competent students of nature have asserted positively that the doctrine of the descent... | |
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