 | 1860 - 566 pages
...separating subkingdoms ; and, accordingly, ' analogy,' Mr. Darwin logically admits, ' would lead us one step further, namely, to the belief ' that all animals and plants have descended from some one ' prototype ; '§ and, summing up the conditions which all living things have in common, this writer... | |
 | Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - 1885 - 730 pages
...desconded from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number. " Analogy would lead me one step further, namely to the belief...all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless all living things have much in common,... | |
 | 1860 - 722 pages
...admit." 4. Mr. Darwin supposes that, " probably, all organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed." " Form into which life was first breathed "? But that is a miracle ; a most stupendous miracle ; a... | |
 | 1860 - 1172 pages
...descended from, at most, only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief...all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless, all living things have much in common,... | |
 | 1864 - 822 pages
...should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings th»t have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed by the Creator." It is a theory which once more sets aside the account of creation given in the Book... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1861 - 276 pages
...at this stage of his argument, the demands of his theory are imperative, and he adds — " Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief...all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype ; " and arguing from what we must be excused from designating somewhat vague ideas of a community... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...equal or lesser number." — Origin of Species, p. 484. Mr Darwin goes on to say: " Analogy would lead one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from gome on prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless, all living beings have much... | |
 | 1860 - 800 pages
...leading to the inference that " probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed."* In the first extract we have the thin end of the wedge driven a little way; in the last, the wedge... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1860 - 594 pages
...descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plauts from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief...all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. Rut analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless all living things have much in common,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1860 - 1176 pages
...descended from, at most, only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief...all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. Hut analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless, all living things have much in common,... | |
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But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless all living things have much in common, . . . Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form... 
