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" There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning... "
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love - Page 13
by Richard Dawkins - 2004 - 272 pages
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Christian Truth and Modern Opinion

Religion and science - 1874 - 250 pages
...the works of Mr. Darwin, one of the most distinguished representatives of this school : " There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on, according...
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Essays Contributed to the 'Quarterly Review.".

Samuel Wilberforce - History - 1874 - 412 pages
...good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.' 'There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, and having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst...
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On the origin of species by means of natural selection ; or, The ...

Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death,...its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according...
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The Academy, Volume 7

English literature - 1875 - 702 pages
...the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch. ..." (Ibid., p. 48P). " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...been originally breathed into a few forms or into one " (Ibid., p. 490). There ia no uncertain utterance here. There has been no special creation. All beings...
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The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism

Dr. Schmidt (Eduard Oskar), Oscar Schmidt - Adaptation (Biology) - 1875 - 362 pages
...of nature to its logical inferences. In the last page of the " Origin of Species," Darwin says : " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according...
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The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism

Dr. Schmidt (Eduard Oskar) - Adaptation (Biology) - 1875 - 376 pages
...of nature to its logical inferences. In the last page of the " Origin of Species," Darwin says : " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according...
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Blending Lights; Or, The Relations of Natural Science, Archaeology, and ...

William Fraser - Bible and science - 1875 - 452 pages
...on this earth have descended from some one form into which life was first breathed by the Creator: "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms, or into one."* And all • "Origin. of Species," p. 570; fifth edition,...
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Studies in the Philosophy of Religion and the History

Andrew Martin Fairbairn - History - 1876 - 424 pages
...presentment subtly masked. The concluding sentence of the " Origin of Species " will be remembered : " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or one ; and that while this planet has gone cycling on according to...
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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly ..., Volume 58

Medicine - 1876 - 528 pages
...a Doctrine vntanclioaed by Science. ISy TIIOHAS WHAETOK JONES, FHS, &c. 1876, pp. CO. " There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according...
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Miscellanies, Old and New

John Cotton Smith - 1876 - 272 pages
...the works of Mr. Darwin, one of the most distinguished representatives of this school : " There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on, according...
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