The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... the geographer , the botanist , and the zoologist , we are enabled to present a panorama of existing lands and seas with all their exube- rant and varied vitality . THE PRESENT . ITS FLORA , FAUNA , AND THEIR 26 INTRODUCTORY .
... the geographer , the botanist , and the zoologist , we are enabled to present a panorama of existing lands and seas with all their exube- rant and varied vitality . THE PRESENT . ITS FLORA , FAUNA , AND THEIR 26 INTRODUCTORY .
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... flora and fauna of distant and diversified regions . If we are familiar , however , with the general con- ditions under which plants and animals now live and flourish , and if we can establish a relationship between those existing and ...
... flora and fauna of distant and diversified regions . If we are familiar , however , with the general con- ditions under which plants and animals now live and flourish , and if we can establish a relationship between those existing and ...
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... FLORA OR PLANT - LIFE . Glancing first at the VEGETABLE WORLD , we perceive that the great regulators of plant - life are heat , light , and mois- ture . Such is the order of nature now , and such , we are bound to believe , have been ...
... FLORA OR PLANT - LIFE . Glancing first at the VEGETABLE WORLD , we perceive that the great regulators of plant - life are heat , light , and mois- ture . Such is the order of nature now , and such , we are bound to believe , have been ...
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... the steadier influences of a genial * The capacity of the atmosphere for heat decreases with its density , and this density decreases from the level of the ocean upwards . climate ; and thus we can judge of the climate ITS FLORA . 29.
... the steadier influences of a genial * The capacity of the atmosphere for heat decreases with its density , and this density decreases from the level of the ocean upwards . climate ; and thus we can judge of the climate ITS FLORA . 29.
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... Order run unswervingly through- out the whole ; and though the Creator might easily have constructed each species after its own type , and rendered plants as varied in their individual forms as they are ITS FLORA . 31.
... Order run unswervingly through- out the whole ; and though the Creator might easily have constructed each species after its own type , and rendered plants as varied in their individual forms as they are ITS FLORA . 31.
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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...