 | James McCosh - 1871 - 410 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | James Samuelson - 1871 - 252 pagina’s
...modified however to meet the necessities of the case, and they say, " there is a 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... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 388 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 412 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1871 - 496 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Charles Robert Bree - 1872 - 518 pagina’s
...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 few forms or into one." " Derivation " sees therein a narrow invocation of a special miracle, and an unworthy limitation of... | |
 | William Penman Lyon - 1872 - 168 pagina’s
...In his work on "The Origin of Species," my Lord, Mr. Darwin says, " There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally...breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one." I do not find, in his present work, any such acknowledgment of the intervention of a Creator. He says,... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - 716 pagina’s
...manner, have all been produced by laws acting " around us.'' . . . . " 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 accord" ing to the fixed law of gravity, from so... | |
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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... 
