| James McCosh - 1871 - 410 strani
...connected with the appearance of vegetable and animal life. In his fifth edition (1869), he speaks "of life, with its several powers, having been originally...breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one." We have seen (supra, p. 80) that he allows : " How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light hardly concerns... | |
| St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 338 strani
...the editions of his " Origin of Species" an expression which has been much criticised. He speaks " of life, with its several powers, having been originally...by the Creator into a few forms, or into one."• This is merely mentioned in justice to Mr. Darwin, and by no means because it is a position which this... | |
| John Henry Pratt - 1871 - 458 strani
...objection 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... | |
| St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 388 strani
...the editions of his " Origin of Species " an expression which has been much criticised : he speaks " of life, with its several powers, having been originally...breathed by the Creator into a few forms, or into one."1 This is mentioned in justice to Mr. Darwin only, and by no means because it is a position which... | |
| St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 324 strani
...as a hypothesis." " c Natural Selection ' sees grandeur in the view of life, 16 Vol. iii., p. 808. with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one. ' Derivation' sees therein a narrow invocation of a special miracle and an unworthy limitation of creative... | |
| 1870 - 388 strani
...creation, it would be absolutely fatal to it as a hypothesis. "'Natural Selection ' sees grandeur in the view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a tew forms, or into one. 'Derivation' sees therein a narrow invocation of a special miracle, and an... | |
| St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 412 strani
...views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one;" and he speaks of life " having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one," which is more than the dogma of creation actually requires. We find then that no incompatibility is... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 546 strani
...dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us." . . . . " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having bein originally brea'hcd by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 662 strani
...dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around u>. " . . . . "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having be< n originally brea'hed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1871 - 496 strani
...uses the figurative language of religious mystery, and speaks " of life with its several powers being originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one." For this expression our author takes him to task, though really it could mean no more than if the gravitative... | |
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