 | Robert A. Nisbet - 392 Seiten
...nineteenth century, the following passage from Darwin's The Origin of the Species is helpful : ... we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation...been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of great length. And as natural selection... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 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...to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. (489) Thoreau launches his thoughts after the milkweed seed that has sailed aloft and is "steering... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 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...to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. (489) Thoreau launches his thoughts after the milkweed seed that has sailed aloft and is "steering... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1998 - 486 Seiten
...living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before die Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and diat no cataclysm has desolated die whole world. Hence we may look widi some confidence to a secure... | |
 | Owen Goldin, Patricia Kilroe - 1997 - 276 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... | |
 | Antony Flew - 180 Seiten
...are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that . . . no cataclysm has desolated the whole world....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... | |
 | Phil Oliver - 2001 - 296 Seiten
...unaltered likeness to a distant futurity," also trumpets an unabashed hopefulness about the future. "Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of great length. . . . [A]ll corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection."... | |
 | Dominic Pettman - 2002 - 224 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...to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. Charles Darwin (489) Since Apollo is often described as an artificer, it is not impossible to think... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 2002 - 1160 Seiten
...living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we great length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal... | |
 | William E. Phipps - 2002 - 234 Seiten
...Cambrian system was deposited [several hundred million years ago], they seem to me to become ennobled 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.... 
