...five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number. Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype." teristic. We have shown, while speaking of hybridity, that a native individual disposition...

...progenitors, and plants from an equal or a lesser number." "Analogy would lead me one step further — viz., to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless, all living things have much in common,...

..." inferring from analogy, that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form into which life was first breathed by the Creator," ie, in other words, that man, who was originally " made in the image and likeness...

...kindred with vegetables! "Probably all organic beings," he say?, "which have overlived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed." In the term organic beings, he, of course, includes plants as well as animals. What, then, has caused...

...descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely to the belief...all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype." " But what then was that one prototype ? The author of the " Vestiges " is quite prepared...

...should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed by the Creator."* But if Darwin's theory is true to this extent, there is no satisfactory reason for...

...should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed by the Creator."* But if Darwin's theory is true to this extent, there is no satisfactory reason for...

...five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless all living things have much in common,...

...and plants from an equal or lesser number." * Analogy, indeed, would lead him " one step farther," namely, to the belief that " all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype." But this he regards as " immaterial whether or not it be accepted,"f inasmuch as no distinct...

...; therefore I should infer from analogy that the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form into which life was first breathed.' All the words from ' therefore ' to the end of the sentence, have been suppressed in the subsequent...