I cannot doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same great class or kingdom. I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy... Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Seite 275von Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1862Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1860 - 566 Seiten
...subkingdoms ; and, accordingly, ' analogy,' Mr. Darwin logically admits, ' would lead us one step further, namely, to the belief ' that all animals and plants have descended from some one ' prototype ; '§ and, summing up the conditions which all living things have in common, this writer infers from... | |
| 1875 - 828 Seiten
...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." On the same page he goes much further : " Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants are descended from some one prototype " ; and he adds, that all the organic beings ,which have ever... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1861 - 276 Seiten
...the demands of his theory are imperative, and he adds — " Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype ; " and arguing from what we must be excused from designating somewhat vague ideas of a community of... | |
| Henry Pitman - 1316 Seiten
...number." — Origin of Species, p. 484. Mr Darwin goes on to say: " Analogy would lead one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from gome on prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless, all living beings have much... | |
| William Nelson Pendleton - 1860 - 362 Seiten
...have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely, to...and plants have descended from some one prototype. I should infer that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended... | |
| 1860 - 982 Seiten
...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead us one step further — namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype.' A cabbage may have been the parent plant, a fish the parent animal. " A man of imaginative power might... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1860 - 582 Seiten
...the demands of his theory are imperative, and he adds — " Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype ; " and arguing from what we must be excused from designating somewhat vague ideas of a community of... | |
| 1860 - 890 Seiten
...five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype." This modesty is, we must say, a little cast aside at page 488; where his "notion" — for it is scarcely... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1860 - 612 Seiten
...five progenitors, ami plants from an equal or lesser number Analogy would lead me one step further. namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. Hut analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless all living things have much in common, in their... | |
| 1860 - 894 Seiten
...sub-kingdoms ; and, accordingly, " analogy," Mr. Darwin logically admits, "would lead us one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype ; " ^f and summing up the conditions which all living things have * " Quelques espèces isolées, qui,... | |
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