The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... 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 under these 30 THE PRESENT .
... 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 under these 30 THE PRESENT .
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... force and vigour in the tertiary and post - tertiary — the periods at which the higher animals and man are present to reap the advantages of their more varied utilities . Such are the leading features of the great groups of the ...
... force and vigour in the tertiary and post - tertiary — the periods at which the higher animals and man are present to reap the advantages of their more varied utilities . Such are the leading features of the great groups of the ...
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... forces - the aqueous and igneous - the crust of the earth is ever held in habit- able equipoise and never - ending variety of superficial aspect . As the former tends to waste and wear down , and carry the eroded material to the bottoms ...
... forces - the aqueous and igneous - the crust of the earth is ever held in habit- able equipoise and never - ending variety of superficial aspect . As the former tends to waste and wear down , and carry the eroded material to the bottoms ...
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... forces , " for a solution of its problems . Certain agents may act over certain areas with greater intensity at one period than at another , or may ex- ert themselves , in the varying distributions of sea and land , over wider areas ...
... forces , " for a solution of its problems . Certain agents may act over certain areas with greater intensity at one period than at another , or may ex- ert themselves , in the varying distributions of sea and land , over wider areas ...
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... world we have no evidence of the operation of " aberrant " or " cataclysmal " or " revolutionary " forces , so in the vital world philosophy cannot point its finger to a single instance of the abnormal . The " Antediluvian " and "
... world we have no evidence of the operation of " aberrant " or " cataclysmal " or " revolutionary " forces , so in the vital world philosophy cannot point its finger to a single instance of the abnormal . The " Antediluvian " 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...