 | English literature - 1860 - 566 pages
...which all living things have in common, this writer infers from that analogy, ' that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on ' this earth,...primordial form, into ' which life was first breathed.' || By the latter scriptural phrase, it may be inferred that Mr. * Philosophic Zoologique, vol. ii.... | |
 | Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - Berwickshire (Scotland) - 1885 - 730 pages
...reproduction. Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form into which life was first breathed by the Creator." This bold conclusion would fly in the face ot Revelation, tradition, and the consciousness... | |
 | Criticism - 1860 - 1172 pages
...monstrous growths in the wild-rose or oak-tree. Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth,...primordial form, into which life was first breathed." The facts which first suggested to the author this most sweeping inference from analogy, were the extraordinary... | |
 | 1864 - 822 pages
...unlimited variation. " Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings th»t have ever lived on this earth have descended from...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
...composition, he adds this climax — " Therefore, I should infer from analogy that, probably, all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth...primordial form, into which life was first breathed." * 86 Let me now proceed to the examination of Agassiz' further arguments. I pass over his caustic remarks... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...monstrons growths on the wild rose or oak tree. Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primoritialform into which life teas first breathed." process is repealed : fresh firr"rTic«s appear,... | |
 | 1860 - 800 pages
...a deceitful guide," yet he follows its inexorable leading to the inference that " probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth...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... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1860 - 716 pages
...if we mistake not, it will be found that Professor Owen will have something to say why the testimony of paleontology should not be so unceremoniously ruled...into which life was first breathed "? But that is a miraele ; a most stupendous miracle ; a direct interposition of a creative power. The Edinburgh Review,... | |
 | Crosthwaite and co - 1860 - 622 pages
...laws of growth and reproduction. . . . Therefore I should infer, from analogy, that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth,...primordial form into which life was first breathed by the Creator." Further on, he remarks, " In the distant future, . . . Psychology will be based on... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 880 pages
...growths on the wild rose or oak-tree. Therefore, I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever liVed on this earth...primordial form, into which life was first breathed by the Creator."* III. That the Development Theory is more honourable to the Creator, and more in accordance... | |
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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, into which life was first breathed. 
