 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1882 - 840 էջ
...of descent,"* And, in view of the facts of geology, it follows that all living animals and plants " are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch." t It is an obvious consequence of this theory of descent with modification, as it is sometimes called,... | |
 | 1860 - 390 էջ
..."millions of millions of ages." And he adds, in his concluding chapter, That " as all forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long...that the ordinary succession by generation has never been once broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look forward with... | |
 | John Phillips - 1860 - 280 էջ
...from some one primordial form into which life was first breathed. ' As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long...that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some... | |
 | 1860 - 966 էջ
...by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man* and his " As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long...that the ordinary succession by generation has never once Wn broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence... | |
 | John Phillips - 1860 - 262 էջ
...into which life was first breathed. 'As all the living forms of life are the lineal de 1 scendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch,...that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 էջ
...wThich will ultimately prevail and procreate new and dominant species. As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long...that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some... | |
 | 1861 - 562 էջ
...will transmit its unaltered likeness to distant futurity. * * * * * As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long...epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession of generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1879 - 26 էջ
...of descent.2 And, in view of the facts of geology, it follows that all living animals and plants ' ' are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch. ' '3 It is an obvious consequence of this theory of Descent with Modification, as it is sometimes called,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 էջ
...which will ultimately prevail and procreate new and dominant species. As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long...that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm las desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with eome... | |
 | 1869 - 488 էջ
...the close of his original work, Mr. Darwin thus expresses himself: "As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long...that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some... | |
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As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. 
