 | Herbert William Morris - 1876 - 736 Seiten
...says Mr. Darwin, " are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation...broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole * Darwin's Origin of Species, p. 245. 12 world." * Now, if these chains of lineal descent have been... | |
 | Arthur Nicols - 1880 - 360 Seiten
...living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation...been broken, and that no cataclysm, has desolated the world. There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed... | |
 | Edward Duke - 1881 - 296 Seiten
...existing 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...a secure future of equally inappreciable length.' The italics are not in the original ; but I wish to draw attention to these remarkable words. A.av6avei... | |
 | Jacob Youde William Lloyd - 1881 - 482 Seiten
...living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that 110 cataclysm has desolated the world. There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1884 - 396 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... | |
 | 1884 - 828 Seiten
...the 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 " (p. 428). VOL. vi. (THIRD SERIES). 3C 7. " However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1884 - 798 Seiten
...the 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 " (p. 428). VOL. vi. (THIRD SERIES). 30 7. " However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 360 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... | |
 | Ada Pritchard, Herbert Hall Turner, John James Stewart Perowne - 1897 - 354 Seiten
...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...a secure future of equally inappreciable length." 'If then we assign a period of one million of millions of years to have elapsed, during which natural... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson, G. Astor Singer - 1897 - 708 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... | |
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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.... 
