| Benjamin Disraeli - English fiction - 1847 - 332 pages
...all explained. But what is most interesting, is the way in which man has been developed. You know , all is development. The principle is perpetually going...very superior to us — something with wings. Ah! that 's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows. But you must read it." " I do not believe... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli - English fiction - 1847 - 336 pages
...all explained. But what is most interesting, is the way in 'which man has been developed. You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going...next change there will be something very superior to us—'something with wings. Ah! that's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows. But you... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1847 - 400 pages
...all explained. But what is most interesting, is the way in which man has been developed. You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going...me see — did we come next ? Never mind that ; we L3 came at last. And the next change there will be something very superior to us — something with... | |
| 1847 - 446 pages
...' it is all explained. But what is most interesting is the way in which man is developed. You know all is development. The principle is perpetually going...fishes; then we came — let me see — did we come next P Never mind that ; we came at last. And the next change there will be something very superior to us... | |
| English literature - 1847 - 884 pages
...Revelations;' it is all explained. But what is most interesting is the way in which man is developed. You know all is development. The principle is perpetually going...First there was nothing, then there was something; then—I forget the next—I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came—let me see—did... | |
| Great Britain - 1860 - 880 pages
...technical terms, is very apparent. Disraeli thus amusingly expounds it : — " You know," says he, " all is development. The principle is perpetually going...fishes— then we came. Let me see — did we come next? i^ever mind that ; we came at last. And the next change there will be something very superior — something... | |
| 1860 - 444 pages
...was—Something. Then (I forget the next) I think there were shells—then fishes—then we came. Let me see—did we come next: Never mind that; we came at last. And the next change there will be something very superior—something with wings ! Ah! that's it: -we were fishes j and I believe we shall be—crows!"... | |
| 1868 - 970 pages
...all explained. But what is most interesting, is the way in which man has been developed. You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nog, then there was something ; then — I forget the next — I think were shells, then fishes ; then... | |
| Thomas Power O'Connor - Great Britain - 1879 - 756 pages
...of evolution : " But what is most interesting, is the way in which man has been developed. You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going...mind that ; we came at last. And the next change, then, will be something very superior, to us — something with wings. Ah ! that's it : we were fishes,... | |
| Thomas Power O'Connor - Great Britain - 1879 - 736 pages
...of evolution: " But what is most interesting, is the way in which man has been developed. You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going...First, there was nothing; then, there was something; then—I forget the next—I think there were shells ; then fishes ; then we came. Let me see—did... | |
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