The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... facts are viewed through the medium of the miraculous . Nor let it be thought that , by recognising in every instance the fixity and unerring operation of Law , we place a wider distance between the Creator and his works , or that any ...
... facts are viewed through the medium of the miraculous . Nor let it be thought that , by recognising in every instance the fixity and unerring operation of Law , we place a wider distance between the Creator and his works , or that any ...
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... fact , so inseparably woven into ONE GREAT SYSTEM are all fossil forms with those now existing , that we cannot treat of the one without considering the other ; and can never hope to arrive at a knowledge of Creative Law by any method ...
... fact , so inseparably woven into ONE GREAT SYSTEM are all fossil forms with those now existing , that we cannot treat of the one without considering the other ; and can never hope to arrive at a knowledge of Creative Law by any method ...
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... is greatly increased by the fact that they are for the most part the chance findings of the quarryman and miner , and extracted in chips and fragments even more fragmentary than when originally PALEONTOLOGY - ITS USES . 25.
... is greatly increased by the fact that they are for the most part the chance findings of the quarryman and miner , and extracted in chips and fragments even more fragmentary than when originally PALEONTOLOGY - ITS USES . 25.
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... fact that the corresponding portions of structures found to - day may not be turned up even for years to come - and in face of the toil and expense which the study unavoidably entails - substantial progress has been made in Palæontology ...
... fact that the corresponding portions of structures found to - day may not be turned up even for years to come - and in face of the toil and expense which the study unavoidably entails - substantial progress has been made in Palæontology ...
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... facts , the eye of the passing observer may readily perceive ; the reason why , man may never know . It is of little avail to talk of the plasticity of the vegetable organism under the force of external conditions , or to tell us that ...
... facts , the eye of the passing observer may readily perceive ; the reason why , man may never know . It is of little avail to talk of the plasticity of the vegetable organism under the force of external conditions , or to tell us that ...
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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...