...lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form into which life was first breathed. ' As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. 'It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of...

...into which life was first breathed. 'As all the living forms of life are the lineal de 1 scendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch,...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. 'It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of...

...yet they are all ' the lineal descendants of those which lived before the Silurian epoch ; and one may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation...corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.' Yes, an unbroken, sure, though slow, living progress towards animal perfectibility...

...never been once broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look forward with some confidence to a secure future of equally...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." These are the deliberate, serious assertions of the author. We can do nothing with them. There never...

...the larger and dominant groups, which will ultimately prevail and procreate new and dominant species. And as Natural Selection works solely by and for the...each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tenc to progress towards perfection. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the mosl...

...confidence to a secure future of eqnally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely l'y and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection."f And what of our aspirations after a glorious immortality ? ^Tiat of that wondrous scheme...

...safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity. . . Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." — Darwin, p. 489. "I have reason to believe that one great authority, Sir C. Lyell, from further...

...some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length ; and, as natural selection acts solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." We must confess these passages pain us, because we believe their thoughtful author must have considered...

...dispassionately considers. Near the close of his original work, Mr. Darwin thus expresses himself: "As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection." — ' Origin of Species,' p. 489. I select this from a mullitude of parallel passages, because it so...

...futurity, and of the species now living very few will transmit progeny to a far-distant futurity. . . . We may look with some confidence to a secure future...endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.' 'There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, and having been originally breathed...