| John Watts - 1865 - Страниц: 206
...which the countless forms of animal and vegetable life are distinguished from each other. All existing animals have descended from at most only four or five...plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would even lead to the inference that " all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended... | |
| George Moore - 1866 - Страниц: 396
...reply from a being sprung only from mucus. Mr. Darwin's faith is modified differently ; he says, ' I believe that animals have descended from at most...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.'* This is pure and simple faith with which reason has nothing to do, and is not sustained by an approach... | |
| Henry A. DuBois - 1866 - Страниц: 112
...own showing, merely a fanciful hypothesis. He accounts for the origin of creation as follows : — " I believe that animals have descended from at most...or five progenitors, and plants, from an equal or less number. Therefore I should infer, from analogy, that probably all the organic beings which have... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1867 - Страниц: 830
...of the organic kingdoms is composed of the modified descendants of a common ancestor, he believes " that animals have descended from at most only four...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." * But he is inclined to go further, and it does not seem to him incredible " that from some such low... | |
| 1867 - Страниц: 830
...of the organic kingdoms is composed of the modified descendants of a common ancestor, he believes " that animals have descended from at most only four...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." * But he is inclined to go further, and it does not seem to him incredible "that from some such low... | |
| John Crawfurd - 1868 - Страниц: 76
...progenitor or prototype. ' I cannot doubt,' says Mr. Darwin, ' that the theory of descent by gradation embraces all the members of the same class. I believe...four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or even lesser number.' He is, indeed, disposed to go further than this, and to derive all organised beings... | |
| 1869 - Страниц: 844
...afraid to say extraordinary instead of " ordinary" ? CRE.YTIOX OF FIRST GERMS. Mr. Darwin believes that animals have descended from at most only four...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. As to the first origin of these, he considers the question to be at present quite beyond the scope... | |
| 1869 - Страниц: 632
...theory ! And this is called science ! Mr. Darwin states his theory in two forms on the same page. " I believe that animals have descended from at most...four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number." " Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organized beings which... | |
| 1869 - Страниц: 688
...that the transmutation doctrine must involve man ; eg, in the sweeping admission that all existing animals have descended from, at most, only four or five progenitors ; and that analogy would even lead to the inference that " all the organic beings which have ever lived on... | |
| 1870 - Страниц: 974
...specie's in the scientific meaning of the term, but also genera and families and orders ; so that all " animals have descended from at most only four or five...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. I shall here omit all notice of plants, for the truth of the hypothesis can be tested as surely and... | |
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