The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... Causes of local and general extinction . - Man as a sub - creative centre and modifying agent.- Duration of species . - Time and term of the human race . - Life aspects of the future . - Progression or succession ? -Onward and upward ...
... Causes of local and general extinction . - Man as a sub - creative centre and modifying agent.- Duration of species . - Time and term of the human race . - Life aspects of the future . - Progression or succession ? -Onward and upward ...
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... cause to effect and from effect to caus- ation , so , in the ancient world , we may rely on similar ad- justments reasoning from certain phases of plant and ani- mal life to the conditions under which they must have ex- isted , and from ...
... cause to effect and from effect to caus- ation , so , in the ancient world , we may rely on similar ad- justments reasoning from certain phases of plant and ani- mal life to the conditions under which they must have ex- isted , and from ...
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... causes which seem to affect their growth ; the conditions that govern their geo- graphical distribution ; their ordinal characters , as known to the botanist and zoologist ; and the functions they are apparently destined to perform in ...
... causes which seem to affect their growth ; the conditions that govern their geo- graphical distribution ; their ordinal characters , as known to the botanist and zoologist ; and the functions they are apparently destined to perform in ...
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... difference implies ? If race after race has come and departed , what the conditions that accom- panied their advent , and what the causes which apparently lead to their extinction ? Do the simpler and lowlier ITS DATES . 75.
... difference implies ? If race after race has come and departed , what the conditions that accom- panied their advent , and what the causes which apparently lead to their extinction ? Do the simpler and lowlier ITS DATES . 75.
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... causes , and much evidence to the contrary , we are bound by sound induction to seek for the explanation in * We say in the mean time ; for the recurrence of colder and warmer cycles over the northern hemisphere , as evinced by the ...
... causes , and much evidence to the contrary , we are bound by sound induction to seek for the explanation in * We say in the mean time ; for the recurrence of colder and warmer cycles over the northern hemisphere , as evinced by the ...
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Стр. 211 - 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. 210 - 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. 210 - 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...