 | Erasmus Darwin - Science - 1800 - 676 pages
...increafing by of its inherent principles, rather than ftvoltuiop of ihc whole by the Almighty fire. — What a magnificent idea of the infinite power of THE GREAT ARCHITECT! THE CA USE OF CAUSES ! PARENT OF PARENTS ! ENSENTIITM I For if we may compare infinities, it would feena... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1818 - 616 pages
...very small beginnings, increasing by the activity of its inherent principles, rather than by a sudden evolution of the whole by the Almighty fiat. — What...of THE GREAT ARCHITECT! THE CAUSE OF CAUSES! PARENT OP PARENTS! ENS ENTIUMJ For if we may compare infinities, it would seem to require a greater infinity... | |
 | J. L. Murphy - 1838 - 260 pages
...its inherent principles, rather than by a sudden evolution of the whole by the Almighty fiat.—What a magnificent idea of the infinite power of the great...The Cause of Causes! Parent of Parents! Ens Entium!" Further notions of Dr. Darwin on this subject, are expressed in the following extracts. "Ignorance... | |
 | Ernst Krause - Biologists - 1879 - 224 pages
...principles, " rather than by a sudden evolution of the ' whole by the Almighty fiat. — What a mag" nificent idea of the infinite power of THE " GREAT ARCHITECT...ENTIUM ! " For if we may compare infinities, it " would seem to require a greater infinity of " power to cause the causes of effects, than to " cause the effects... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1879 - 436 pages
...activity of ita inherent principles, rather than by a sudden evolution of the whole by the Almighty fire. What a magnificent idea of the infinite power of the great Architect! The CAUSE OF CAUSES ! PARENT OF ITIDM !" » ' Zoonomia,' vol. ip 513. CHAPTER XV. MEMOIR OF LAMAKCK. I TAKE the following memoir of... | |
 | Ernst Krause - Biologists - 1880 - 250 pages
...fiat. — What a mag " nificent idea of the infinite power of THE " GREAT ARCHITECT ! THE CAUSE OP CAUSES ! " PARENT OF PARENTS ! ENS ENTIUM ! " For if we may compare infinities, it " would seem to require a greater infinity of " power to cause the causes of effects, than to " cause the effects... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1882 - 488 pages
...its inherent principles, rather than by a sudden evolution of the whole by the Almighty fire. \\ hat a magnificent idea of the infinite power of the great Architect ! The CAUSE OF CAUSES ! PAUENT OF PABENTS ! ENS ENT1UM ! " * » ' Zoonoinift,' vol. ip 513. CHAPTER XV. MEMOIR OF LAMARCK.... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - Natural history - 1886 - 344 pages
...to the Theistic conception of the universe ; for he adds : 'What a magnificent idea of the inf1nite power of THE GREAT ARCHITECT ! THE CAUSE OF CAUSES ! PARENT OF PARENTS ! ENS ENTIUM !' THE TRANSMUTATION OF SPECIES. LAMARCK. UP to the middle of the present century, naturalists in general... | |
 | Robert Heath Lock - Evolution - 1906 - 356 pages
...activity of its inherent principles, rather than by a sudden evolution of the whole by the almighty fire. What a magnificent idea of the infinite power of THE...The Cause of causes. Parent of parents. Ens entium.' De Maillet, writing in 1735, showed a definite idea of the production of existing species by the modification... | |
 | Joseph McFarland - Biology - 1910 - 470 pages
...activity of its inherent principles rather than by a sudden evolution of the whole by the almighty fire. What a magnificent idea of .the infinite power of...The Cause of causes. Parent of parents. Ens entium!" "De Maillet, writing in 1753, appears to have been convinced that existing species of animals arose... | |
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... the world itself might have been generated, rather than created; that is, it might have been gradually produced from very small beginnings, increasing by the activity of its inherent principles, rather than by a sudden evolution of the whole by the... 
