The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... maps out the areas of sea and land , and depicts the various races of life - the belts of sterility and exuberance - and the creative centres from which peculiar families have emanated to perform their functions THE PRESENT.
... maps out the areas of sea and land , and depicts the various races of life - the belts of sterility and exuberance - and the creative centres from which peculiar families have emanated to perform their functions THE PRESENT.
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... exuberance and specific variety attain their maximum intensity ; in the temperate zones this intensity gradually declines ; while in the arctic regions vegetable life dwarfs and diminishes till it ultimately disappears and gives place ...
... exuberance and specific variety attain their maximum intensity ; in the temperate zones this intensity gradually declines ; while in the arctic regions vegetable life dwarfs and diminishes till it ultimately disappears and gives place ...
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... sources , is nevertheless stimu- lated into life and exuberance by the presence of organic decay ; while the animal , being herbivorous , subsists im- mediately upon plants , or , if carnivorous , preys 66 THE PRESENT .
... sources , is nevertheless stimu- lated into life and exuberance by the presence of organic decay ; while the animal , being herbivorous , subsists im- mediately upon plants , or , if carnivorous , preys 66 THE PRESENT .
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... exuberance . On the whole , the silurian Flora is of a very lowly character , and its scanty fragments find their nearest affinities in the sea - weeds , liver - worts , and club - mosses of existing nature . Of course , the ...
... exuberance . On the whole , the silurian Flora is of a very lowly character , and its scanty fragments find their nearest affinities in the sea - weeds , liver - worts , and club - mosses of existing nature . Of course , the ...
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... exuberance of crustacean life within certain areas of the old red sandstone . The Fishes of the period are also peculiar , inasmuch as many of them are encased in bony plates , or covered with hard enamelled scales ; are frequently ...
... exuberance of crustacean life within certain areas of the old red sandstone . The Fishes of the period are also peculiar , inasmuch as many of them are encased in bony plates , or covered with hard enamelled scales ; are frequently ...
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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...