On the evidence of palaeontology, the evolution of many existing forms of animal life from their predecessors is no longer an hypothesis, but an historical fact ; it is only the nature of the physiological factors to which that evolution is due which... Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 688edited by - 1897Full view - About this book
| 1879 - 614 pages
...Huxley, who, in 1878, wrote in the JSiicyclopœdia. Jîritannica : -'On the evidence of pal ¡eon tology, the evolution of many existing forms of animal life...is no longer an hypothesis, but an historical fact ; it is only the nature of the physiological factors to which that evolution is due which is still... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Culture - 1881 - 372 pages
...from the Triassic epoch to the present day, have been demonstrated. On the evidence of palaeontology, the evolution of many existing forms of animal life...is no longer an hypothesis, but an historical fact ; it is only the nature of the physiological factors to which that evolution is due which is still... | |
| George John Romanes - Evolution - 1882 - 106 pages
...Professor Huxley, who, in 1878, wrote in the Encyclopaedia Britannica : " On the evidence of palaeontology, the evolution of many existing forms of animal life...is no longer an hypothesis, but an historical fact ; it is only the nature of the physiological factors to which that evolution is due which is still... | |
| George John Romanes - Evolution - 1882 - 104 pages
...Professor Huxley, who, in 1878, wrote in the Encyclopedia Britannica : " On the evidence of palaeontology, the evolution of many existing forms of animal life...is no longer an hypothesis, but an historical fact ; it is only the nature of the physiological factors to which that evolution is due which is still... | |
| Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - Bible - 1882 - 536 pages
...that " the causes and conditions of variation have yet to be thoroughly explored." Again, he says, " the evolution of many existing forms of animal life...from their predecessors is no longer an hypothesis, it is an historical fact ; it is only the nature of the physiological factors" — in other words,... | |
| Andrew Wilson - Evidence - 1883 - 444 pages
...OF ANOPLOTHRRIUM. of such a demonstration that Huxley writes : " On the evidence of palaeontology, the evolution of many existing forms of animal life...is no longer an hypothesis, but an historical fact ; it is only," he adds, " the nature of the physiological factors to which that evolution is due which... | |
| Joseph Young Bergen - Evolution - 1884 - 268 pages
...On the evidence of paleontology [the science -which treats of the life of previous geological ages], the evolution of many existing forms of animal life...is no longer an hypothesis, but an historical fact : it is only the nature of the physiological factors to which that evolution is due that is still open... | |
| Jan Helenus Ferguson - International law - 1884 - 558 pages
...a hypothesis, and it is with truth that Professor Huxley said on the evidence of palaeontology : " the evolution of many existing forms of animal life...is no longer an hypothesis, but an historical fact; it is only the nature of the physiological factors to which that evolution is due which is still open... | |
| Jan Helenus Ferguson - International law - 1884 - 538 pages
...and it is with truth that 1'mfessor Huxley said on the evidence of palaeontology : " the qvolution of many existing forms of animal life from their predecessors is no longer an hypothesis, but an historical faet ; it is only the nature of the physiological factors to which that evolution is due which is still... | |
| Science - 1886 - 920 pages
...whole cause, it is a very important factor in that operation. . . . On the evidence of palaeontology, the evolution of many existing forms of animal life...is no longer an hypothesis, but an historical fact ; it \% only the nature of the physiological factors to which that evolution is due which is still... | |
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