 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1871 - 728 Seiten
...the origin of species. It will be remembered that the object of this author was to show " that all animals have descended from at most only four or five...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." The theory, therefore, that new varieties and new races could be established by selection aud cross-breeding,... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1862 - 782 Seiten
...stupendous absurdity of his conclusion. This is expressed as follows: "I believe that animals (t. «., all animals) have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants (all) from an equal or lesser number." . . . "I should infer, from analogy, that probably all the organic... | |
 | 1872 - 366 Seiten
...primordial form into which life was first breathed by the Creator." Again, in the same page, " I believe that animals have descended from at most only four...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." In the last page he repeats his notion of the descent of organic beings from " either a few forms,... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1872 - 768 Seiten
...operation of natural causes. In his work on the "Origin of Species" he says: "I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors ; and plants from an equal or lesser number." On the same page,1 however, he goes much further, and says : " Analogy would lead me one step further,... | |
 | George St. Clair - 1873 - 280 Seiten
...greatly different from them, but does not take us back to the origin of living matter. Mr Darwin believes that animals have descended from at most only four...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number, but considers the question of their firs: origin to be at present quite beyond the scope of science.... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1873 - 522 Seiten
...number of original creations, he says, page 419 : I believe that animals have descended, at most, from only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants which have ever lived on this... | |
 | William Fraser - 1873 - 406 Seiten
...expounded by Mr. Darwin and others. Mr. Darwin's theory assumes that animals have descended, at most, from only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser 1 " Lange's Commentary on Genesis," p. 21 1. number; but analogy would lead him farther, namely, to... | |
 | Montgomery Albert Ward - 1874 - 180 Seiten
...to the first origin of life on this globe, I shall here quote Mr. Darwin's hypothesis. " I believe that animals have descended from, at most, only four...from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one... | |
 | 1874 - 800 Seiten
...view. Speaking of the probable commencement of Life upon our globe, Mr. Darwin says ' : " I believe that animals have descended from at most only four...from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one... | |
 | H. Charlton Bastian - 1874 - 216 Seiten
...Darwin says * : — " I believe that animals have * Origin of Species, 6th edit. 1872, pp. 424 and 429. descended from at most only four or five progenitors,...from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one... | |
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I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. 
