The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... fishes , shell - fish , and crustaceans . - Their specialties and place in the scale of being . 3. The Devonian or Old Red Sand- stone age . Physical features of the epoch . - Its plants , crus- taceans , shell - fish , and fishes . 4 ...
... fishes , shell - fish , and crustaceans . - Their specialties and place in the scale of being . 3. The Devonian or Old Red Sand- stone age . Physical features of the epoch . - Its plants , crus- taceans , shell - fish , and fishes . 4 ...
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... fish - scale , will often suffice to unriddle the most puzzling problem . The one kind of evidence speaks of the hand that fabri- cated , the degree of intelligence that directed the fabrica- tion , and the purpose it was meant to ...
... fish - scale , will often suffice to unriddle the most puzzling problem . The one kind of evidence speaks of the hand that fabri- cated , the degree of intelligence that directed the fabrica- tion , and the purpose it was meant to ...
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... fish ; on this the scales of a fish , on that the plates of a reptile ; in this the bone of a bird , in that the bone of a mammal ; in this the grinder that milled the leafy twigs of the forest , in that the trenchant tooth that preyed ...
... fish ; on this the scales of a fish , on that the plates of a reptile ; in this the bone of a bird , in that the bone of a mammal ; in this the grinder that milled the leafy twigs of the forest , in that the trenchant tooth that preyed ...
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... fish- scales , will enable them to identify with certainty strata in distant localities , and so save years of unnecessary toil and thousands of useless expenditure . There is , for instance , in Britain a red sandstone beneath , and a ...
... fish- scales , will enable them to identify with certainty strata in distant localities , and so save years of unnecessary toil and thousands of useless expenditure . There is , for instance , in Britain a red sandstone beneath , and a ...
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... fish , the star - fish from the crab , the crab from the turtle , the turtle from the fish , the fish from the bird , or the bird from the quadruped ? It is in vain to tell us that the one is but a progressive or developmental form of ...
... fish , the star - fish from the crab , the crab from the turtle , the turtle from the fish , the fish from the bird , or the bird from the quadruped ? It is in vain to tell us that the one is but a progressive or developmental form of ...
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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...