 When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.  Transactions - Página 77por Eclectic Medical Society of the State of New York - 1878Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | George John Romanes - 1882 - 104 páginas
...in the same mould that He had just previously used to cast the complex structure of the ape. " When I view all beings, not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 674 páginas
...more than ever constrained to agree with the sentiments expressed by its closing words : — " When I view all beings, not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to... | |
 | Roscoe Lorenzo Eames - 1883 - 256 páginas
...five progenitors, and plants from an equal or a lesser number." And then here is the conclusion. " Probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some primordial form into which life was first breathed." The interest that this theory has awakened may... | |
 | Church of England. Mission Theological Advisory Group - 1996 - 214 páginas
...have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual. When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1996 - 382 páginas
...have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual. When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to... | |
 | Antony Flew - 180 páginas
...its several powers, having been breathed into a few forms or into one' (ibid., pp. 459-60); although 'I should infer from analogy that probably all the...earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed' (ibid., p. 455; in later editions references to the creator were... | |
 | P. Theerman, Karen Hunger Parshall - 1997 - 336 páginas
...have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual. When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to... | |
 | Owen Goldin, Patricia Kilroe - 1997 - 276 páginas
...have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual. When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1998 - 424 páginas
...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number', or even — though he hedged his bets here — that 'probably all the organic beings which have ever...earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed' (364). Darwin was not, of course, the first to realise that things,... | |
 | E.G. Brown - 1998 - 258 páginas
...observations led him to a similar conclusion: he wrote in 1859 in his book On the Origin of the Species, 'Probably all the organic beings which have ever lived...earth have descended from some one primordial form'. The first biocatalysts, antecedents of today's enzymes, were very likely transition metal ions either... | |
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