 | English literature - 1871 - 608 pages
...should be received as an article of faith. Thus the formidable objection to Mr. Darwin's theory, that the great break in the organic chain between man and...be bridged over by any extinct or living species, is answered simply by an appeal ' to a belief in the general principle of evolution ' (vol. i. p. 200),... | |
 | American literature - 1871 - 808 pages
...should be received as an article of faith. Thus the formidable objection to Mr. Darwin's theory, that the great break in the organic chain between man and...be bridged over by any extinct or living species, is answered simply by an appeal " to a belief in the general principle of evolution" (vol. ip 200),... | |
 | American periodicals - 1871 - 860 pages
...should be received us an aticle of faith. Thus the formidable objection to Mr. Darwin's theory, that the great break in the organic chain between man and...be bridged over by any extinct or living species, is answered simply by an appeal "to a belief in the general principle of evolution " (vol. i. p. 200),... | |
 | 1871 - 792 pages
...that at the beginning of that enormous period any change occurred. " The great break," he continues, " in the organic chain between man and his nearest allies,...this objection will not appear of much weight" — to whom 1 — "to those who, convinced by general reasons, believe in the general principle of evolution... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1871 - 678 pages
...Simian stock, including man, was identical with, or even closely resembled, any existing ape or monkey." "The great break in the organic chain between man...convinced by general reasons, believe in the general principles of evolution." It strikes us that there is something Hudibrastic in that mode of meeting... | |
 | John Henry Pratt - 1871 - 458 pages
...that at the beginning of that enormous period any change occurred. ' The great break,' he continues, ' in the organic chain between man and his nearest allies,...this objection will not appear of much weight'— to whom ?— ' to those who, convinced by general reasons, believe in the general principle of evolution'... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1871 - 446 pages
...should be received as an article of faith. Thus the formidable objection to Mr. Darwin's theory, that the great break in the organic chain between man and...be bridged over by any extinct or living species, is answered simply by an appeal to ' a belief in the general principles of evolution' (vol. i., p.... | |
 | English literature - 1871 - 606 pages
...should be received as an article of faith. Thus the formidable objection to Mr. Darwin's theory, that the great break in the organic chain between man and...be bridged over by any extinct or living species, is answered simply by an appeal ' to a belief in the general principle of evolution ' (vol. i. p. 200),... | |
 | James McCosh - Christianity - 1871 - 410 pages
...he speaks more expressly (p. 200) of " the great break in the organic DARWIN'S DESCENT OF MAN. 353 chain between man and his nearest allies, which cannot...be bridged over by any extinct or living species." This means that the animal, which could have given birth to man, has not been found in the geological... | |
 | 1871 - 650 pages
...should be received as an article of faith. Thus the formidable objection to Mr. Darwin's theory, that the great break in the organic chain between man and his nearest allies, cannot be bridged over by any extinct or living species, is answered simply by an appeal ' to a belief... | |
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The great break in the organic chain between man and his nearest allies, which cannot be bridged over by any extinct or living species, has often been advanced as a grave objection to the belief that man is descended from some lower form; but this objection... 
