 | English literature - 1860 - 566 pages
...summing up the conditions which all living things have in common, this writer infers from that analogy, ' that probably all the organic beings which have ever...form, into ' which life was first breathed.' || By the latter scriptural phrase, it may be inferred that Mr. * Philosophic Zoologique, vol. ii. p. 463. f... | |
 | Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - Berwickshire (Scotland) - 1885 - 730 pages
...reproduction. Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial...into which life was first breathed by the Creator." This bold conclusion would fly in the face ot Revelation, tradition, and the consciousness of our moral... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1860 - 722 pages
...degree which I require, few will be inclined to admit." 4. Mr. Darwin supposes that, " probably, all organic beings which have ever lived on this earth...primordial form, into which life was first breathed." " Form into which life was first breathed "? But that is a miracle ; a most stupendous miracle ; a... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...there is no resting-place here. He then makes the final plunge: "Therefore, I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from one primordial form, into which life was first breathed." (Page 419.) Here at last we find the germ... | |
 | Criticism - 1860 - 1172 pages
...gall-fly produces monstrous growths in the wild-rose or oak-tree. Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever...primordial form, into which life was first breathed." The facts which first suggested to the author this most sweeping inference from analogy, were the extraordinary... | |
 | 1864 - 822 pages
...unlimited variation. " Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings th»t have ever lived on this earth have descended from...which life was first breathed by the Creator." It is a theory which once more sets aside the account of creation given in the Book of Genesis, and if it... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1861 - 276 pages
...ideas of a community of composition, he adds this climax — " Therefore, I should infer from analogy that, probably, all the organic beings which have...primordial form, into which life was first breathed." * 86 Let me now proceed to the examination of Agassiz' further arguments. I pass over his caustic remarks... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...gallfly produces monstrons growths on the wild rose or oak tree. Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primoritialform into which life teas first breathed." process is repealed : fresh firr"rTic«s appear,... | |
 | 1860 - 800 pages
...protests that " analogy may be a deceitful guide," yet he follows its inexorable leading to the inference that " probably all the organic beings which have...primordial form, into which life was first breathed."* In the first extract we have the thin end of the wedge driven a little way; in the last, the wedge... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English literature - 1860 - 638 pages
...produces monstrous growths on the wild rose or oak-tree. Therefore, Mr. Darwin would infer from analogy that, probably, all the organic beings -which have...into which life was first breathed by the Creator. Is it too much to say that, in the good old times, opinions like these would have been strongly redolent... | |
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Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed. 
