...ascertained historical development of the forms and functions of organic life during successive epochs, which seems to mark a gradual evolution of Creative Power...by a gradual ascent towards a higher type of being. But when it is affirmed, that the successive parts of the great organic sequence are related to one...

...luminous disquisition forming the Preface to a recently published 5th edition of Professor Sedgwick's Discourse on the Studies of Cambridge. "There are...Ibid. p. cliv. " But the elevation of the fauna of succeseive periods was not made by transmutation, but by vol_ vn. d creative additions; and it is by...

...ascertained historical development of the forms and funetions of organic life during successive epochs, which seems to mark a gradual evolution of Creative Power, manifested by a gradual aseent towards a higher type of being." So he negatives on one page the question, " Do the organic...

...past epochs, yet earnestly repudiates the development theory, main• taining that the changes of form "mark a gradual evolution of creative power, manifested...by a gradual ascent towards a higher type of being But the elevation of the fauna of successive periods was not made by transmutation, but by creative...

...ascertained historical development of the forms and functions of organic life during successive epochs, which seems to mark a gradual evolution of Creative Power manifested by a gradual ascent towards a Irfgher type of being. But •" It cannot fail to be observed by any one who has comprehended the true...

...ascertained historical development of the forms and functions of organic life during successive epochs, which seems to mark a gradual evolution of Creative Power,...manifested by a gradual ascent towards a higher type ofbeing." So he negatives on one page the question, " Do the organic types of the old world follow...

...portions of the same series ; and lastly, in the recent appearance of Man on the surface of the earth.' ' This historical development,' continues the same author,...a gradual ascent towards a higher type of being.' ' But the elevation of the fauna of successive periods was not made by transmutation, but by creative...

...seems to contain or disclose ? The chief quality in the character of i " The historical development of the forms and functions of organic life during...a gradual ascent towards a higher type of being." — Sedgieick'i Discourse on the Studies of the University of Cambridge ; cited, Lyell's " Antiquity...

...portions of the same series ; and lastly, in the recent appearance of Man on the surface of the earth.' ' This historical development,' continues the same author,...gradual evolution of creative power, manifested by £. gradual ascent towards a higher type of being.' ' But the elevation of the fauna of successive...

...series ; and, lastly, in the recent appearance of man upon the earth. . . . This historic development of the forms and functions of organic life during...of creative power, manifested by a gradual ascent to a higher type of being. . . . But the elevation of the fauna of successive periods was not made...