...plain from the concluding remarks of his well-known work, in which, alluding to his theory, he says " there is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originallv breathed by the Creator into a few forms or one, and that while this planet has gone cycling...

...to Natural Selection, entailing divergence of character and the extinction of less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production (creation 1} of the higher animals, directly follows."...

...grandeur in the view, as Mr. Darwin says, which derives from so simple yet mysterious an origin, and " from the war of nature, from famine and death, the...conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals." Our author, however, is much more " advanced " than Mr. Darwin on the question of the origin of life...

...to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death,...production of the higher animals, directly follows." l Remarks on the Darwinian Theory. First, it shocks the common sense of unsophisticated men to be told...

...consequence to natural selection, entailing divergence of character and extinction of less improved forms. Thus from the war of nature, from famine and death,...exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, the production of the higher animals directly follows. There is a grandeur in this view of life, with...

...entailing divergence of character and the extinction of less improved forms, is decidedly followed by the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals.' But we can give him a simpler solution still for the presence of these strange forms of imperfection...

...character and the extinction of less improved forms, is decidedly followed by the most exalted object wlnVh we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the. higher animals.' But we can give him a simpler solution still for the presence of these strange forms of imperfection...

...to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death,...of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator...

...and the slow but certain improvement of forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine, and from death, the most exalted object which we are capable...namely, the production of the higher animals, directly and inevitably follows. There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been...

...sound biological generalization that the extirpation of the lower race should be the immediate cause of the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving...— namely, the production of the higher animals," this is a cold and cheerless creed. We may be excused for requiring very rigorous proof before accepting...