 | William Fraser - 1875 - Страниц: 452
...expounded by Mr. Darwin and others. Mr. Darwin's theory assumes that animals have descended, at most, from only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number ; but analogy would lead him farther, namely, to some one prototype. Accordingly, he infers that probably... | |
 | Ernst Haeckel - 1876 - Страниц: 458
...these special questions of the Theory of Descent ; at the conclusion he only expresses his conjecture " that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number." But as these few aboriginal forms still show traces of relationship, and as the animal... | |
 | Ransom Bethune Welch - 1876 - Страниц: 320
...with persistent obliviousness of Mr. Darwin's admission that " animals have descended from at most four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number ; life with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1877 - Страниц: 584
...conclusion should be adopted : " I cannot doubt," he says, " that the theory of descent, with modifications, embraces all the members of the same class. I believe...equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype.... | |
 | Thomas Ragg - 1877 - Страниц: 468
...resemble each other. Therefore I cannot doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces all members of the same class. I believe that animals...equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype.... | |
 | Sir Frederick Bateman - 1877 - Страниц: 262
...zoologique, ou exposition des considerations relatives a 1'histoire naturelle des animaux. Paris, 1809. f " I believe that animals have descended from at most...equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step 6 DARWINISM TESTED BY LANGUAGE. at the application of his hypothesis to man, remarking that in the... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1877 - Страниц: 744
...evolution and transformation of species are shown. And now we will leave the rostrum to Mr. Darwin : " I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors." f Again : " I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1877 - Страниц: 696
...with monkey-man, has modified from its own primordial and distinctive form. Supposing that we concede that " animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors ; " * and that even .; la rigueur " all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1877 - Страниц: 688
...with monkey-man, has modified from its own primordial and distinctive form. Supposing that we concede that " animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors ; " * and that even a la rigueur " all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended... | |
 | 1878 - Страниц: 794
...have constituted an epoch in natural history. The conclusions to which he arrived were as follows : " That the theory of descent with modification embraces...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." . . . . " Therefore, on the principle of natural selection with divergence of character, it does not... | |
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I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype.... 
