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" The Great Creator of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands but has at the same time stamped a certain similitude on the features of nature, that demonstrates to us that the whole is one family of one parent. "
Zoonomia - Page vii
by Erasmus Darwin - 1818
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Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life ...

Erasmus Darwin - Evolution - 1801 - 548 pages
...but has at the fame time ftamped a certain limilitude on the features of nature, that demonfrrates to us, that the whole is one family of one parent. On this fimilitude is founded all rational analogy; which, fo long as it is concerned in eomparihg the eflential...
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A Discourse of the Baconian Philosophy

Samuel Tyler - Philosophy - 1844 - 214 pages
...moral essences." And the same distinction is well expressed bj Darwin inthe preface to his Zoonomia: "The great creator of all things has infinitely diversified...features of nature, that demonstrates to us, that they are one family of one parent. — On this similitude is founded all rational analogy; which so...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 10

Science - 1876 - 862 pages
...great work of his life, "The Zoonomia, or Laws of Organic Life," and on the first page he says : " The great Creator of all things has infinitely diversified...the features of Nature, that demonstrates to us that Ihe whole i> one family of one parent." And, on page. 77, he s.iys expressly : " I do not wish to dispute...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 10

Science - 1876 - 312 pages
...great work of his life, " The Zoonomia, or Laws of Organic Life," and on the first page he says : " The great Creator of all things has infinitely diversified...to us that the whole is one family of one parent." And, on page 77, he says expressly : " I do not wish to dispute about words, and am ready to allow...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 10

Science - 1877 - 804 pages
...great work of his life, "The Zoo nomia, or Laws of Organic Life," and on the first page he says : •" The great Creator of all things has infinitely diversified...of Nature, that demonstrates to us that the whole i> one family of one parent." And, on page 77, he snys expressly : " I do not wish to dispute about...
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The Genius of Erasmus Darwin

Christopher Upham Murray Smith, Robert Arnott - History - 2005 - 452 pages
...and propensities' of the original fibres? In the Preface to Zoonomia, Darwin famously writes that: The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified...hands, but has at the same time stamped a certain similtude on the features of nature, that demonstrates to us, that the whole is one family of one parent.46...
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Picturing Animals in Britain, 1750-1850

Diana Donald - Art - 2007 - 402 pages
...organic life' as they operate uniformly in all living things would provide a new basis for medicine. The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified...certain similitude on the features of nature, that demonstrate to us, that the whole is one family of one parent.'9 This assumption, that the physiology...
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the life letters and labours of francis galton, Volume 1

Karl Pearson - 1924 - 570 pages
...Vol. I, p. 13). Perhaps what weighed much with Galton were the lines from the preface to the Zoonomia. The great Creator of all things has infinitely diversified...certain similitude on the features of nature that demonstrate to us that the whole is one family of one parent. There is not a doubt, I think, that Erasmus...
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