 | Charles Darwin - 1846 - 716 էջ
...If Buffbn had known of the gigantic sloth and armadillo-like animals, and of the lost Pachydermata, he might have said, with a greater semblance of truth,...extinct quadrupeds lived at a late period, and were the contemporaries of most of the existing sea-shells. Since they lived, no very great change in the... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1847 - 594 էջ
...observes, ' had known of these gigantic annadilloes, llamas, great rodents and lost pachydermata, he would have said, with a greater semblance of truth, that the creative force in America had lost its vigour, rather than that it had never possessed such powers. It is impossible to reflect on the changed... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1873 - 552 էջ
...If Buffon had known of the gigantic sloth and armadillo-like animals, and of the lost Pachydermata, he might have said with a greater semblance of truth...Since they lived, no very great change in the form of the land can have taken place. What, then, has exterminated fo many species and whole genera? The... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1876 - 586 էջ
...said with a greater semblance of 'ruth that the creative force in America had lost its power, Wher than that it had never possessed great vigour. The...number, if not all, of these extinct quadrupeds lived at 1 late period, and were tlie contemporaries of most of the existing sea-shells. Since they lived, no... | |
 | Joseph Thomas Cunningham - 1886 - 48 էջ
...If Buffon had known of the gigantic sloth and armadillolike animals, and of the later pachydermata, he might have said with a greater semblance of truth...its power rather than that it had never possessed greater power." A little further on he shows that he had at the time of the publication of the Journal... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1889 - 628 էջ
...If Buffon had known of the gigantic sloth and armadillo-like animals, and of the lost Pachydermata, he might have said with a greater semblance of truth...extinct quadrupeds lived at a late period, and were the contemporaries of most of the existing sea-shells. Since they lived, no very great change in the... | |
 | Edward John Payne - 1892 - 646 էջ
...globe, 'had known of those gigantic armadilloes, llamas, great rodents, and lost pachydermata, he would have said with a greater semblance of truth that the creative force in America had lost its vigour, rather than that it had never possessed such powers.' Journal of Researches (in South America),... | |
 | Henry Neville Hutchinson - 1894 - 346 էջ
...vigour. The greater number, if not all, of these extinct quadrupeds lived at a late period, and were the contemporaries of most of the existing seashells. Since they lived, no very great change in the form of the land can have taken place. What, then, has exterminated so many species and whole genera ? The... | |
 | 1915 - 680 էջ
...which once swarmed in America, that, if Buffon had known of the lost Pachydermata of this continent, he might have said with a greater semblance of truth that the creative force of America had lost its power rather than that it had never possessed great vigor. Industry is, then,... | |
 | Emanuel Bonavia - 1895 - 404 էջ
...the gigantic Sloth and Armadillo-like animals, and of the lost Pachydermata, he might have said with greater semblance of truth that the creative force in America had lost its power rather than it had never possessed great vigour.' What is the reason of this change from the monstrous-sized animals... | |
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The greater number, if not all, of these extinct quadrupeds lived at a late period, and were the contemporaries of most of the existing sea-shells. Since they lived, no very great change in the form of the land can have taken place. What, then, has exterminated... 
