 ... would it be too bold to imagine, that all warmblooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations,...  The Torch - Page 25Full view - About this book
 | Erasmus Darwin - Evolution - 1801 - 602 pages
...in how minute a portion of time many of the changes of animals above defcribed have been produced; would it be too bold to .imagine, that in the great length of time, fince the earth began to exift, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the hiftpry of... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - Evolution - 1803 - 622 pages
...time, fmce the earth began to exift, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the hiiloryof mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arifen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIUST*CAUSE endued with an. imality,with the power... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1818 - 616 pages
...how minute a proportion of time many of the changes of animals above described have been produced; would it be too bold to imagine, that in the great...filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts attended with new propensities, directed by irritations,... | |
 | Edmund Saul Dixon - Poultry - 1848 - 388 pages
...delivered to their posterity with constant improvement of them, for the purposes required. " Would it then be too bold to imagine, that all warmblooded animals...filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations,... | |
 | Edmund Saul Dixon - Poultry - 1857 - 544 pages
...delivered to their posterity with constant improvement of them, for the purposes required. "Would it then be too bold to imagine, that all warmblooded animals...filament, which the great First Cause endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations,... | |
 | Bible - 1878 - 826 pages
...organism has gradually assumed new forms in multiplied variety. " Would it be too bold," he asks, " to imagine that in the great length of time since...filament, which the great First Cause endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations,... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Biology - 1864 - 506 pages
...it, in part, to a tendency given to such germ or germs when created. He suggests the possibility " that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one...filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations,... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Biology - 1864 - 510 pages
...part, to a tendency given to such germ or germs when created. He suggests the possibility " that t U warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations,... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Biology - 1866 - 512 pages
...it, in part, to a tendency given to such germ or germs when created. He suggests the possibility " that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one...filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring: new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1879 - 436 pages
...produced; would it be too bold to imagine that in the great length of time ยป ' Voyage to China,' p. 113. since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of...filament, which the Great First Cause endued with animality, with the power of attaining new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations,... | |
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