 | Richard Owen - Anatomy, Comparative - 1868 - 1046 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Science - 1868 - 556 pages
...the concluding remarks of his well-known work, in which, alluding to his theory, he says " there is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originallv breathed by the Creator into a few forms or one, and that while this planet has gone cycling... | |
 | Geology - 1869 - 488 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Geology - 1869 - 468 pages
...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 few forms or in to one :"* 'Derivation- sees, therein, a narrow invocation of a special miracle and an unworthy... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - Bible and geology - 1870 - 170 pages
...original type. His hypothesis is not atheistic, nor materialistic, for Darwin holds expressly to " the view of life, with its several powers, having been...breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one." But he makes the change of external circumstances the force that, by calling out certain elements or... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1870 - 644 pages
...creation, it would be absolutely fatal to it as an hypothesis. " Natural Selection " sees grandeur in the view of life, with its several powers, having been...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... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1870 - 652 pages
...hypothesis. "Natural Selection " sees grandeur in the view of life, with its several powers, havmg 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... | |
 | James McCosh - Christianity - 1871 - 410 pages
...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... | |
 | John Henry Pratt - 1871 - 458 pages
...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 - 338 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
