...as Prof. Owen has fully admitted, can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this fundamental similarity of pattern in members of the same -class, by utility, or the doctrine of final causes. On the ordinary view of the independent creation of each animal and plant,...

...latter will admit, •with Owen and every morphologist, that hopeless is the attempt to explain the similarity of pattern in members of the same class by utility or the doctrine of final causes. "On the ordinary view of the independent creation of each being, we can...

...as Prof. Owen has fully admitted, can be more hoj>ele-s than to attempt to explain this fundamental similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility, or the doctrine of final causes. On the ordinary view of the independent creation of each animal and plant,...

...govern the construction of the mouths and limbs of crustaceans. So it is with the flowers of plants. Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain...being, we can only say that so it is ; — that it has so pleased the Creator to construct each animal and plant. The explanation is manifest on the theory...

...the promptings of natural selection. " Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain the similarity of pattern in members of the same class,...utility, or by the doctrine of final causes . . . " The explanation is manifest on the theory of the natural selection of successive slight modifications,...

...various special purposes. At page 466 (third edition), he says : — " Nothing can be more hopeless than to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class by utility, or the doctrine of final causes ; the hopelessness of the attempt has been expressly admitted by Owen,...

...Creator, it seems to me that nothing is thus added to our knowledge." — P. 413. Again, at p. 435, he remarks, in a way which, to say the least of it,...being, we can only say that so it is ; that it has so pleased the Creator to construct each animal and plant." A good deal more can be said of each animal...

...govern the construction of the mouths and limbs of crustaceans. So it is with the flowers of plants. Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain...being, we can only say that so it is ; — that it has so pleased the Creator to construct each animal and plant. I The explanation is manifest on the theory...

...transposed. Hence the same name can be given to the homologous bones in widely different animals. ' Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain...pattern in members of the same class, by utility, or by doctrine of final causes. On the ordinary view of the independent creation of each being we can only...

...come to a dead-lock ; and therefore we beg leave to turn his own language upon himself, and to say ' nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain...similarity of pattern in members of the same class by Natural Selection and the Struggle for Life.' But it seems that in our view of the case we can only...