 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.  The Popular Science Monthly - Seite 7261874Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1895 - 692 Seiten
...was generally held by the earlier geologists. " As all the living forms of life," says Mr Darwin, " are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession of generation has never once been broken, and that... | |
 | John Phillips - 1860 - 280 Seiten
...on this earth have descended 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 before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been... | |
 | 1860 - 966 Seiten
...each mental power and capacity 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 before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once Wn broken,... | |
 | 1860 - 390 Seiten
...change would be "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 before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never been once... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 Seiten
...larger and dominant groups, 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 before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - 1861 - 516 Seiten
...complex action of natural selection, entailing extinction and divergence of character. . . . As all 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 even been... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 Seiten
...larger and dominant groups, 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 before the Silurian epoch, •we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been... | |
 | 1869 - 488 Seiten
...dispassionately considers. Near 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 before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been... | |
 | H. Charlton Bastian - 1872 - 824 Seiten
...lowest organisms in accordance with the old hypothesis. This, as expressed by Mr. Darwin 3, is, that c all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch.' On the other hand, what has been made known in this work now relieves us from all... | |
 | H. Charlton Bastian - 1872 - 834 Seiten
...lowest organisms in accordance with the old hypothesis. This, as expressed by Mr. Darwin3, is, that call the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch.' On the other hand, what has been made known in this work now relieves us from all... | |
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