 | 1890 - 340 Seiten
...living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian Epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation...may look with some confidence to a secure future of great length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal... | |
 | 1860 - 562 Seiten
...a glorious non sequitur, and that, too, from premises which we cannot admit!] — hence (we repeat) we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length 1" Hard doctrine, this, for " unphilosophical " minds like ours ! And, were we inclined to be sceptical... | |
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As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian 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.... 
