...before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. . . . There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the first law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have...

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

...causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual" * * * " there is grandeur in the view of life, with its several powers, having been...beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved."1 " If these expressions," says Dr. Asa Gray, " do not refer the efficiency of physical causes...

...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...one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling oh according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms, most beautiful...

...however, is undoubtedly the case, as shown by the following passage which concludes the volume : " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that, while this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning...

...causes, than that each species has been independently cre"ted." And again, from his ORIGIN OF SPECIES: There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...the Creator into a few forms or into one ; and that while this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning,...

...Darwin does not deny that they originally came from the hands of a Creator. He says in one place, " There is grandeur in this view of life with its several...breathed by the Creator into a few forms, or into one." : There are but two bases of belief upon which we can at all conceive the origination of this power...

...fact, which has become the leading idea of comparative anatomy in its present stage. Dr. Darwin thinks "there is grandeur in this view of life, with its...originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one."7 Professor Huxley says — " All existing species are the result of the modification of pre-existing...

...Asa Gray's idea ? Judging from the final sentence of the " Origin of Species," which maintains that " there is grandeur in this view of life, with its several...having been originally breathed by the Creator into few forms or into one," we might infer that the theological difficulties of the venerable author of...

...another. It is not natural selection which has led Mr. Darwin and many others to believe ihat life was " originally breathed by the Creator * into a few forms or into one," and " that the • production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world has been due to...