The Past and Present Life of the Globe: Being a Sketch in Outline of the World's Life-systemW. Blackwood and sons, 1861 - Всего страниц: 256 |
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... tion , and the purpose it was meant to subserve ; the other tells of the nature of the plant or animal to which it be- longed , the climate and conditions under which it grew and flourished , the place it held , and the 18 INTRODUCTORY .
... tion , and the purpose it was meant to subserve ; the other tells of the nature of the plant or animal to which it be- longed , the climate and conditions under which it grew and flourished , the place it held , and the 18 INTRODUCTORY .
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... tion ? If it does neither , it is no true science , and stands unworthy to be ranked with the legitimate subjects of intellectual research . Luckily , however , it does all , and recommends itself , as it were , instinctively to the ...
... tion ? If it does neither , it is no true science , and stands unworthy to be ranked with the legitimate subjects of intellectual research . Luckily , however , it does all , and recommends itself , as it were , instinctively to the ...
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... tion . How this cell , or globule of matter , should become vivified - how it should be capable , under certain conditions of heat , light , and moisture , of being reproduced indefin- itely into some determinate form as a leaf , and ...
... tion . How this cell , or globule of matter , should become vivified - how it should be capable , under certain conditions of heat , light , and moisture , of being reproduced indefin- itely into some determinate form as a leaf , and ...
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... tion . It is thus that we arrive , in general terms , at the great truths of vital progress — a leaf , a stem , the disposi- tion of a branch , or the structure of a fruit , affording such evidence to the palæontologist as the flint ...
... tion . It is thus that we arrive , in general terms , at the great truths of vital progress — a leaf , a stem , the disposi- tion of a branch , or the structure of a fruit , affording such evidence to the palæontologist as the flint ...
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... tion and reproduction . Again , he subdivides the vascular into the FLOWERLESS , as the mosses , equisetums , and ferns ; and the FLOWERING , which embraces the palms , and lilies , and grasses , the pines and cycads , and all herbs and ...
... tion and reproduction . Again , he subdivides the vascular into the FLOWERLESS , as the mosses , equisetums , and ferns ; and the FLOWERING , which embraces the palms , and lilies , and grasses , the pines and cycads , and all herbs and ...
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abundance acrogens affinities America annelids appear areas aspects become birds bivalves botanist brachiopods cainozoic carboniferous cephalopods chalk character characterised climate club-mosses coal corals creation creatures cretaceous crust crustaceans cycads deposits Devonian dicotyledonous earth encrinites endogens eocene epoch equisetums estuaries Europe eurypterus evidence existing nature exogens external conditions extinct exuberant ferns fishes flora and fauna forest forms fossil fragments functions gasteropods genera and species generalisations genial geological geologists gigantic globe glyptodons graptolites growth gymnogens higher indicated latitudes limestones lower mammals marine marsupial mesozoic MOLLUSCA neozoic northern hemisphere numerous ocean old red sandstone oolite organic organisation palæontologist paleozoic palms past peculiar period physical plants and animals pliocene present primal progress pterygotus races regions reptiles sauroid sea and land sea-urchins sea-weeds sediments shell-fish shells shores Silurian stage star-fishes strata structure terrestrial tertiary throng tion trace tree-ferns triassic trilobites true varied variety vegetable vertebrate vitality waters zoologist
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Стр. 207 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Стр. 206 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so Complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Стр. 54 - That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze; Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the 'trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Стр. 206 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by Reproduction ; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse...
Стр. 53 - Every organized being forms a whole, a single circumscribed system, the parts of which mutually correspond and concur to the same definitive action by a reciprocal re-action. None of these parts can change without the others also changing, and consequently each part, taken separately, indicates and gives all the others.
Стр. 55 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent! Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and bums: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, He bounds, connects, and equals all.
Стр. 203 - This argues strongly in favour of the existence in every animal of an immaterial principle similar to that which by its excellence and superior endowments places man so much above animals...
Стр. 141 - Araucariae and cycadeous plants likewise flourish on the Australian continent, where marsupial quadrupeds abound, and thus appear to complete a picture of an ancient condition of the earth's surface, which has been superseded in our hemisphere by other strata, and a higher type of mammalian organisation.
Стр. 116 - Many of them are highly polished, and others are grooved and finely striated, like the stones of existing Alpine glaciers, and like those of the ancient glaciers of the Vosges, Wales, Ireland, and the Highlands of Scotland ; or like many stones in the pleistocene drifts.
Стр. 224 - Megatheria of South America- the geological phenomena of that continent appear to negative the occurrence of such destructive changes. Our comparatively brief experience of the progress and duration of species within the historical period, is surely insufficient to justify, in every case of extinction, the verdict of violent death. With regard to many of the larger Mammalia, especially those which have...