...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."...

...kinship and participation in the physical creation. In The Origin of Species Darwin says, "When I view all beings not as special creations but as the lineal...some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled."1 Similarly, human culture...

...accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants...determining the birth and death of the individual. When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which...

...accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants...determining the birth and death of the individual. When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which...

...accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants...the world should have been due to secondary causes" (Origin, p. 458). The creator invoked here is the one discussed in Hillis Miller's The Disappearance...

...accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants...like those determining the birth and death of the individual".47 Traditional theists like Augustine understood the creative process in terms of "causal...

...the status of words such as 'inhabitants' or 'beings' into a far more egalitarian form: 'When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal...some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.' Lineage escapes from...

...somewhat later, in defending his theory as not entirely beyond Divine intervention: When I view all being not as special creations but as the lineal descendants...some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to be to become ennobled (Darwin, 1899:473). In...

...matter by the Creator, that die production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of die world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of die individual. When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some...

...accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants...the world should have been due to secondary causes. . . . There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed...