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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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William Ewart Gladstone and His Contemporaries: Fifty Years of ..., Volumes 3-4

Thomas Archer - Great Britain - 1883 - 766 pages
...a man who was known to be a devout believer in religion, and who concluded his treatise by saying: "From the war of nature, from famine and death, the...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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God and the Future Life : the Reasonableness of Christianity

Charles Nordhoff - Christian life - 1883 - 244 pages
...nevertheless, is as far as possible from the truth. Mr. Darwin himself wrote, in his first book : " 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, while this planet has gone cycling on, according...
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Christianity and Humanity

Charles Samuel Eby - Apologetics - 1883 - 324 pages
...and replied to it very truly, when at the end of his work on the Origin of Species he said : — " 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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Aspects of Scepticism: With Special Reference to the Present Time

John Fordyce - Faith - 1883 - 490 pages
...To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter 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 that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 42

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1883 - 872 pages
...which his theory conducted him. In his book on the Origin of Species, he thus expresses it: "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 while this planet has gone cycling on according...
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The Baptist Quarterly Review, Volume 5

Baptists - 1883 - 558 pages
...distinguished scientist who, in closing a treatise on the law of organic development, says: "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, while this planet has gone cycling on according...
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William Ewart Gladstone and His Contemporaries: Fifty Years of ..., Volumes 3-4

Thomas Archer - Great Britain - 1883 - 786 pages
...are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of tlie higher animals, directly follows. There in 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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Chapters on Evolution

Andrew Wilson - Evidence - 1883 - 408 pages
...the production of the higher animals, directly follows. Tliere is grandeur," concludes Mr. Darwin, " 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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Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1884 - 396 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, while this planet has gone cycling on according...
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Charles Darwin: A Paper Contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire ...

Edward Woodall - Naturalists - 1884 - 100 pages
...consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of lessimproved 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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