 | Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - Berwickshire (Scotland) - 1885 - 730 pages
...and plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless all living things have much in common, in their chemical composition, their germinal vescicles, their cellular structure, and their laws of growth and reproduction. Therefore I should... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...little thought soon satisfies him that there is no resting-place here. He then makes the final plunge: "Therefore, I should infer from analogy that probably...have ever lived on this earth have descended from one primordial form, into which life was first breathed." (Page 419.) Here at last we find the germ... | |
 | Criticism - 1860 - 1172 pages
...plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless, all living things have much in common, in their chemical...structure, and their laws of growth and reproduction. We see this even in so trifling a circumstance as that the same poison often similarly affects plants... | |
 | 1864 - 822 pages
...in the course of millions of generations and under the operation of a law of unlimited variation. " Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings th»t have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...descended from gome on prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless, all living beings have much in common, in their chemical composition,...structure and their laws of growth and reproduction. We see this even in so trifling a circumstance as that the same poison often similarly affects plants... | |
 | Art - 1860 - 612 pages
...or that the poison secreted by the gall-fly produces monstrous growth* on the wild rose or oak-tree. Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably...this earth have descended from some one primordial Cm in, into which life was first breathed." It is very clear, as already stated, that many of the so-called... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English literature - 1860 - 638 pages
...have descended from some one prototype. But analogy, he owns, may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless, all living things have much in common in their chemical...structure, and their laws of growth and reproduction. We see this even in so trifling a circumstance as that the same poison often similarly affects plants... | |
 | John Phillips - Life - 1860 - 280 pages
...animals and plants have descended from one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless all living things have much in common, in their chemical...structure, and their laws of growth and reproduction. We see this even in so trifling a circumstance as that the same poison often similarly affects plants... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 880 pages
...plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless, all living things have much in common ; in their chemical...structure, and their laws of growth and reproduction. We see this even in so trifling a circumstance as that the same poison often similarly affects plants... | |
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Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. 
