...might be urged to Mr. Darwin's own conception of the beginning of things as unscientific — viz., of "life with its several powers having been originally...breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one."* We must have a beginning. But science is incapable of showing what it was. It can only trace the phenomena...

...of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this.view of life , with its sevcral 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 flxed law of gravity from so simple...

...conceiving, namely, thn production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been...breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into ONE ; and that whilst this planct has gone cycling on, according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple...

...Mr. Darwin observes, " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having Seen 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 laws of gravity, from so...

...conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. 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...

...is of opinion (as expressed in th« concluding words of his volume) that " there is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers, having been...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...

...operation of a simple law, is something grand. " There is grandeur in this view of life," Mr. Darwin says, "with its several powers having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or one." No doubt there is grandeur, but incomparably more grandeur will there be in it when men have...

...conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been...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...

...ornament or beauty, in itself, should be a purpose in creation, it would be absolutely fatal to it as a hypothesis. ' Natural Selection ' sees grandeur in...calling into life many forms, by conversion of physical aud chemical into vital modes of force, under as many diversified conditions of the requisite elements...

...ornament or beauty, in itself, should be a purpose in creation, it would be absolutely fatal to it as a hypothesis. ' Natural Selection ' sees grandeur in...power, the grandeur of which is manifested daily, 1 ccxm". Ed. 1860. p. 490. hourly, in calling into life many forms, by conversion of physical and chemical...