 | 1871 - 630 pages
...strictly true, for he owes his birth to long line of progenitors. If any single link in this chain had never existed, man would not have been exactly what he now is. Unless wilfully close our eyes, we may, with our present knowledge, approsi mately recognise our parentage... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1871 - 678 pages
...strictly true, for he owes his birth to a long line of progenitors. If any single link in this chain had never existed, man would not have been exactly what he now is. Unless we willfully close our eyes, we may, with our present knowledge, approximately recognize our parentage... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 432 pages
...strictly true, for he owes his birth to a long line of progenitors. If any single link in this chain had never existed, man would not have been exactly what...we may, with our present knowledge, approximately recognize our parentage ; nor need we feel ashamed of it. The most humble organism is something much... | |
 | William Penman Lyon - 1872 - 202 pages
...of the universe, proceeded If a single link in this chain had never existed, man would not have been what he now is. Unless we wilfully close our eyes, we may, with our present knowledge, approximately recognize our parentage, nor need we feel ashamed of it." (Vol. i. pp. 212, 213.) Homo. I hope, my... | |
 | William Penman Lyon - Creationism - 1872 - 178 pages
...of the universe, proceeded If a single link in this chain had never existed, man would not have been what he now is. Unless we wilfully close our eyes, we may, with our present knowledge, approximately recognize our parentage, nor need we feel ashamed of it." (Vol. i. pp. 212, 213.) Homo. I hope, my... | |
 | Charles William Grant (col.) - 1872 - 98 pages
...scientific mode of reasoning ? We are told that if any single link in this chain of succession had never existed, " Man would not have been exactly what he now is." And we are also told : — " But no one can at present say by what line of descent the three higher... | |
 | 1875 - 244 pages
...Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not it may be said, of noble quality." "Unless we wilfully close our eyes we may, with our present knowledge, approximately recognize our present parentage ; nor need we feel ashamed of it." (sic !) And here is the portrait... | |
 | Herbert William Morris - Bible and science - 1876 - 736 pages
...pedigree of prodigious length," says the great Seer of Development; "if a single link in this chain had never existed, man would not have been exactly what he now is." * To go no further back — If the bodily structure of some member of the Old World monkey family had... | |
 | Alexander Wilford Hall - Evolution - 1880 - 544 pages
...spontaneously generated homogeneous, organless, albuminous "primeval parent of all oiher organians " : "The most humble organism is something much higher...feet ; and no one with an unbiassed mind can study imy living crettiirr, however humble, without being struck with entfiuiiianm at its murrclouj structure... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - Evolution - 1881 - 348 pages
...universe, proceeded. ... If a single link in this chain had never existed, man would not have been what he now is. Unless we wilfully close our eyes, we may, with our present knowledge, approximately recognize our parentage, nor need we feel ashamed of it."1 " If a single link in this chain had never... | |
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... long line of progenitors. If any single link in this chain had never existed, man would not have been exactly what he now is. Unless we wilfully close our eyes, we may, with our present knowledge, approximately recognize our parentage; nor need we... 
