...objection 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...

...the editions of his " Origin of Species " an expression which has been much criticised : he speaks " of life, with its several powers, having been originally...breathed by the Creator into a few forms, or into one."1 This is mentioned in justice to Mr. Darwin only, and by no means because it is a position which...

...as a hypothesis." " c Natural Selection ' sees grandeur in the view of life, 16 Vol. iii., p. 808. with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one. ' Derivation' sees therein a narrow invocation of a special miracle and an unworthy limitation of creative...

...creation, it would be absolutely fatal to it as a hypothesis. "'Natural Selection ' sees grandeur in the view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a tew forms, or into one. 'Derivation' sees therein a narrow invocation of a special miracle, and an...

..."There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having bet n originally brea'hed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this pl.met has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless...

...views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one;" and he speaks of life " having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one," which is more than the dogma of creation actually requires. We find then that no incompatibility is...

...dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around u>. " . . . . "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having be< n originally brea'hed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet...

...dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us." . . . . " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having bein originally brea'hcd by the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet...

...uses the figurative language of religious mystery, and speaks " of life with its several powers being originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one." For this expression our author takes him to task, though really it could mean no more than if the gravitative...

..." each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting " around us.'' . . . . " There is grandeur in this view of life with its "...; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on accord" ing to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms, " most beautiful...