...that she has advanced with slow and stately steps, guided by the archetypal light, amidst the wreck of worlds, from the first embodiment of the Vertebrate...idea under its old Ichthyic vestment, until it became arrayed in the glorious garb of the Human form. (Owen 1849: 89) Owen is clearly not a creationist regarding...

...[nature] has advanced with slow and stately steps, guided by the archetypal light, amidst the wreck of worlds, from the first embodiment of the Vertebrate idea under its own Ichthyic vestment, until it became arrayed in the glorious garb of the Human form." Was this the...

...Nature ... has advanced with slow and stately steps, guided by the archetypal light amidst the wreck of worlds, from the first embodiment of the vertebrate idea, under its old ichthyic vestment [that is, as fish], until it became arranged in the glorious garb of the human form." Owen's explanation...

...from the first embodiment of the vertebrate idea, under its old ichthyic vestment [that is, as fish], until it became arranged in the glorious garb of the human form." Owen's explanation of the diversity of living organisms as the gradual embodiment through time of pre-existent...

...operation of natural law, or secondary cause ; and that, not only successively, but progressively ; from the first embodiment of the Vertebrate idea under its old Ichthyic vestment until it became arrayed in the glorious garb of the Human form.'f * cn.i, p. 1 19. f Ib., p. 86. Even in his partial...

...the personified term Nature, — she has advanced, guided by the archetypal light amidst the wreck of worlds, from the first embodiment of the vertebrate idea under its old icthyic vestment, until it became arrayed in the glorious garb of the human form.' We can only hint...