 There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning...  The Science-history of the Universe - Page 132edited by - 1909Full view - About this book
 | 1871 - 792 pages
...might be urged to Mr. Darwin's own conception of the beginning of things as unscientific — viz., of "life with its several powers having been originally...breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one."* We must have a beginning. But science is incapable of showing what it was. It can only trace the phenomena... | |
 | Anatomy - 1862 - 638 pages
...which we are capable of conceiving, namely the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forrns or into one ; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of... | |
 | Anatomy - 1860 - 694 pages
...of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this.view of life , with its sevcral powers having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the flxed law of gravity from so simple a beginning... | |
 | 1860 - 890 pages
...which we are capable of conceiving, namely, thn production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...the Creator into a few forms or into ONE ; and that whilst this planct has gone cycling on, according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning,... | |
 | Crosthwaite and co - 1860 - 622 pages
...Mr. Darwin observes, " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having Seen originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning,... | |
 | Edward Dillon Mapother - Diseases - 1864 - 578 pages
...which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life with its several...the Creator into a few forms, or into one ; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning,... | |
 | Anthropology - 1864 - 668 pages
...inferior animals. Moreover, he is of opinion (as expressed in th« concluding words of his volume) that " there is grandeur in this view of life with its several...the Creator into a few forms, or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning... | |
 | John Laws Milton - 1864 - 668 pages
...operation of a simple law, is something grand. " There is grandeur in this view of life," Mr. Darwin says, "with its several powers having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or one." No doubt there is grandeur, but incomparably more grandeur will there be in it when men have... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1866 - 668 pages
...which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning... | |
 | Religion and science - 1867 - 510 pages
...Mr. WARINGTON. — I wish to quote Darwin from his own book, fourth edition, the last sentence : " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one." — (P. 577.) Does not that settle the matter that he holds to Creation ? The phrase still stands just... | |
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