 But, for all this, our acceptance of the Darwinian hypothesis must be provisional so long as one link in the chain of evidence is wanting ; and so long as all the animals and plants certainly produced by selective breeding from a common stock are fertile,...  Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal - Page 1441868Full view - About this book
 | Medicine - 1863 - 700 pages
...breeding, we must again wait for facts. On this point we will quote Mr. Huxley: — "But, for all this, our acceptance of the Darwinian hypothesis must be...one link in the chain of evidence is wanting ; and BO long as all the animals and plants certainly produced by selective breeding from a common stock... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Apes - 1863 - 204 pages
...example, the Copernican hypothesis was to the true theory of the planetary motions. ^ But, for all this, our acceptance of the Darwinian hypothesis must be...plants certainly produced by selective breeding from a common stock are fertile, and their progeny are fertile with one another, that link will be wanting.... | |
 | Medicine - 1863 - 714 pages
...Mr. Huxley:—" But, for all this, our acceptance of the Darwinian hypothesis must be provisional go long as one link in the chain of evidence is wanting ; and BO long as all the animals and plants certainly produced by selective breeding from a common stock... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1864 - 742 pages
...great fact in favour of original and distinct species, Professor Huxley admits, and declares that his /'acceptance of the Darwinian hypothesis must be provisional,...one link in the chain of evidence is wanting;" and "that link will be wanting," till there is " proof that physiological species may be produced by selective... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Apes - 1873 - 204 pages
...example, the Copernican hypothesis was to the true theory of the planetary motions. But, for all this, our acceptance of the Darwinian hypothesis must be...plants certainly produced by selective breeding from a common stock are fertile, and their progeny are fertile with one another, that link will be wanting.... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1873 - 522 pages
...be suspected.'' And he claims that this weakness and suspicion must attach to Darwin's hypothesis, "so long as all the animals and plants certainly produced by selective breeding from a common stock are fertile, and their progeny are fertile with one another. For, so long, selective... | |
 | Charles Hodge - Evolution - 1874 - 190 pages
...suspected, though it may have a perfect right to provisional acceptance. .... Our acceptance, therefore, of the Darwinian hypothesis must be provisional so...plants certainly produced by selective breeding from a common stock are fertile, and their progeny are fertile one with another, that link will be wanting.... | |
 | Charles Elam - Evolution - 1876 - 184 pages
...ever been observed in nature, or developed by art.1 To suppose that it can ever begin to be other1 ' Our acceptance of the Darwinian hypothesis must be...the chain of evidence is wanting ; and so long as wise, is merely an unwarranted conjecture, such as would be rejected summarily in any other science.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1877 - 812 pages
...are due to a special endowment not to be traced to the " molecular possibilities of protoplasm." * " Our acceptance of the Darwinian hypothesis must be...plants certainly produced by selective breeding from a common stock are fertile, and their progeny are fertile with one another, that link will be wanting."... | |
 | Literature - 1877 - 1212 pages
...in 1874. Lay Sermons, p. l'J8. t " Our acceptance of the Darwinian hypothesis mnst be provisional HO long as one link in the chain of evidence is wanting...plants certainly produced by selective breeding from a common stock are fertile, and their progeny are fertile with one another, that link ici/l be tcantiny."... | |
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