...and, summing up the conditions which all living things have in common, this writer infers from that analogy, ' that probably all the organic beings which...primordial form, into ' which life was first breathed.' || By the latter scriptural phrase, it may be inferred that Mr. * Philosophic Zoologique, vol. ii....

...composition, their germinal vescicles, their cellular structure, and their laws of growth and reproduction. Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form into which life was first breathed...

...degree which I require, few will be inclined to admit." 4. Mr. Darwin supposes that, " probably, all organic beings which have ever lived on this earth...primordial form, into which life was first breathed." " Form into which life was first breathed "? But that is a miracle ; a most stupendous miracle ; a...

...little thought soon satisfies him that there is no resting-place here. He then makes the final plunge: "Therefore, I should infer from analogy that probably...have ever lived on this earth have descended from one primordial form, into which life was first breathed." (Page 419.) Here at last we find the germ...

...or that the poison secreted by the gall-fly produces monstrous growths in the wild-rose or oak-tree. Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably...primordial form, into which life was first breathed." The facts which first suggested to the author this most sweeping inference from analogy, were the extraordinary...

...in the course of millions of generations and under the operation of a law of unlimited variation. " Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings th»t have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was...

...Hence he says, in summing up, "I believe that all animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors." But at this stage of his argument, the...primordial form, into which life was first breathed." * 86 Let me now proceed to the examination of Agassiz' further arguments. I pass over his caustic remarks...

...or that the poison secreted by the gallfly produces monstrons growths on the wild rose or oak tree. Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably...ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primoritialform into which life teas first breathed." process is repealed : fresh firr"rTic«s appear,...

...protests that " analogy may be a deceitful guide," yet he follows its inexorable leading to the inference that " probably all the organic beings which have...primordial form, into which life was first breathed."* In the first extract we have the thin end of the wedge driven a little way; in the last, the wedge...

...or that the poison secreted by the gall-fly produces monstrous growths on the wild rose or oak-tree. Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably...primordial form into which life was first breathed. 'As all the living forms of life are the lineal de 1 scendants of those which lived long before the...