 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1882 - Počet stránok 840
...of descent,"* And, in view of the facts of geology, it follows that all living animals and plants " are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch." t It is an obvious consequence of this theory of descent with modification, as it is sometimes called,... | |
 | 1860 - Počet stránok 966
...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...those which lived long before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once Wn broken, and that no... | |
 | John Phillips - 1860 - Počet stránok 280
...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...those which lived long before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1860 - Počet stránok 638
...long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, and to conclude thence that (as all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants...those which lived long before the Silurian epoch) we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, that no... | |
 | 1860 - Počet stránok 390
...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 broken, and that... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - Počet stránok 470
...and dominant groups, wThich will ultimately prevail and procreate new and dominant species. As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants...those which lived long before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - 1861 - Počet stránok 516
...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 broken, and that... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1879 - Počet stránok 26
...of descent.2 And, in view of the facts of geology, it follows that all living animals and plants ' ' are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch. ' '3 It is an obvious consequence of this theory of Descent with Modification, as it is sometimes called,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - Počet stránok 472
...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...those which lived long before the Silurian epoch, •we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that... | |
 | 1869 - Počet stránok 488
...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...those which lived long before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that... | |
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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. 
