The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... determine . Shall we ignorantly dig through the one for that mineral fuel which never lies beneath it ; or shall we , mistaking the other , maintain that it is folly to pierce through its strata ? Where the mere mineralogist stands ...
... determine . Shall we ignorantly dig through the one for that mineral fuel which never lies beneath it ; or shall we , mistaking the other , maintain that it is folly to pierce through its strata ? Where the mere mineralogist stands ...
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... determine the order of its occurrence , it would be no solution of the great primal question of diversity , seeing that plant - life is altogether passive , and that external conditions are of them- selves utterly impotent without a ...
... determine the order of its occurrence , it would be no solution of the great primal question of diversity , seeing that plant - life is altogether passive , and that external conditions are of them- selves utterly impotent without a ...
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... determine the relative positions not merely of the plants that now adorn the various regions of the earth , but of those that existed during the successive epochs of her by- gone history . As a region of shrubs and timber - trees is ...
... determine the relative positions not merely of the plants that now adorn the various regions of the earth , but of those that existed during the successive epochs of her by- gone history . As a region of shrubs and timber - trees is ...
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... determined with some degree of certainty ; and at all events , even where family alliance fails , they can be readily ranked under the wider categories of orders and sections . It is thus that the subjoined scheme embraces alike the ...
... determined with some degree of certainty ; and at all events , even where family alliance fails , they can be readily ranked under the wider categories of orders and sections . It is thus that the subjoined scheme embraces alike the ...
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... determines its existing relationships , and maps out its centres and areas of geo- graphical arrangement . 2. - ITS FAUNA OR ANIMAL LIFE . As with plants , so with animals . While we find them everywhere on the earth , in the air , and ...
... determines its existing relationships , and maps out its centres and areas of geo- graphical arrangement . 2. - ITS FAUNA OR ANIMAL LIFE . As with plants , so with animals . While we find them everywhere on the earth , in the air , and ...
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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...