...to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual." " When he views all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal...some few beings which lived long before the first seed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to him to become ennobled." " Judging from the...

...causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual When I view all things,' he adds, 'not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants...was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled ' (pp. 488-9). But if God has spoken, is not this language in the highest degree presumptuous ? Scripture...

...now, after all the multiplied centuries, here it is to-day, in its variety, beauty, and vigour ! " When I view all beings, not as special creations,...Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled."1 Placing the origin of life at such a distance in the past does not at all diminish the...

...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...beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. Judging from the past, we may safely...

...by gradation. Light will be thrown upon the origin of man and his history " (Ibid., p. 488). " . . . I view all beings, not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beinge which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited. . . ." (Ibid., p....

...organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form. J . . . I view all beings, not as special creations, but as...the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited." § In short, they lived in the Sanchoniathonian chaos, and in the ilus of Manu. Vyasa and Kapila go...

...as he is concerned nothing but " unverifiable hypotheses." For, as he puts it, he views all beings " as the lineal descendants of some few beings which...first bed of the Silurian system was deposited."}; He does not attempt to show us who these " few beings " were. But it answers our purpose quite as well,...

...as he is concerned nothing but " unverifiable hypotheses." For, as he puts it, he views all beings " as the lineal descendants of some few beings which...long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited."J He does not attempt to show us who these " few beings " were. But it answers our purpose...

...no less than the lower animal races out of some simple primordial animal — that all are equally " lineal descendants of some few beings which lived...the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited." But, as the author speaks disrespectfully of spontaneous generation, and accepts a supernatural beginning...

...organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form." Again : "I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some beings which lived long before the first bed of the SUurian system was deposited." No explanation is...