| Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - 1885 - 730 páginas
...declares that when he views all things, not as special creations, but as lineal descendants of some very few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seemed to him to become ennobled ; and his views are weightily endorsed ; for many very able men in... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1860 - 594 páginas
...trust that when his great work is forthcoming, he will not put forward any such frantic position. " When I view all beings not as special creations, but...Silurian system was 'deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled." (p. 489). Is it an ennobling idea that a pedigree which ends with, " who was the son of... | |
| 1860 - 982 páginas
...the individual.' When he views ' all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendents of some few beings which lived long before the first...of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to him to become ennobled.' We confess some doubt and some uneasiness here. ' Judging from the past, we... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 páginas
...should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual. "When I view all beings not as special creations,...Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its... | |
| 1861 - 562 páginas
...power and capacity by gradation ; light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. ***** When I view all beings not as special creations, but...Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. Judging from the past we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered... | |
| 1861 - 734 páginas
...beings," he says, " not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings who lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to be ennobled." I am afraid that the honour of this parentage, as regards our own species,, will not... | |
| 1861 - 388 páginas
...swimming-bladder" — Mr Darwin regards as the noblest claim of ancestry. " When I view all beings," he says, " not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings who lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to be ennobled."... | |
| 1861 - 374 páginas
...swimming-bladder" — Mr Darwin regards as the noblest claim of ancestry. " When I view all beings," he says, " not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings who lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to be ennobled."... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 páginas
...should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual. When I view all beings not as special creations, but...Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its... | |
| 1863 - 578 páginas
...length of ancestral line is here ! " When I view all beings, not as special creations," he says, " but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silnresu system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled." No doubt, tastes differ, so Mr.... | |
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