The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... forest - growths , coral - reefs , shell- beds , crustaceans , insects , fishes , and reptiles . 5. The Permian or Lower New Red Sand- stone age - so - called " close of the Paleozoic cycle . - Imper- fect interpretation and provisional ...
... forest - growths , coral - reefs , shell- beds , crustaceans , insects , fishes , and reptiles . 5. The Permian or Lower New Red Sand- stone age - so - called " close of the Paleozoic cycle . - Imper- fect interpretation and provisional ...
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... forest , in that the trenchant tooth that preyed on the flesh of other creatures . Every trace becomes a letter , every fragment a word , and every perfect fossil a chapter in the world's history , which tells of waters that were ...
... forest , in that the trenchant tooth that preyed on the flesh of other creatures . Every trace becomes a letter , every fragment a word , and every perfect fossil a chapter in the world's history , which tells of waters that were ...
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... forest are borne down by the flooded river and are ultimately entangled in the silt of its estuary -as the coral - reef and shell - bed are gradually increasing and growing , as it were , into limestone before our eyes - as the ...
... forest are borne down by the flooded river and are ultimately entangled in the silt of its estuary -as the coral - reef and shell - bed are gradually increasing and growing , as it were , into limestone before our eyes - as the ...
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... forest ; under the reconstructing skill of a Cuvier , an Agassiz , or an Owen , these scattered bones have been reunited in intelligible symmetry , and once more repeopled the earth , the air , and the ocean ; while under the magic ...
... forest ; under the reconstructing skill of a Cuvier , an Agassiz , or an Owen , these scattered bones have been reunited in intelligible symmetry , and once more repeopled the earth , the air , and the ocean ; while under the magic ...
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... forest . Nay more : there are some tribes that will flourish only in rich organic mould , others that prefer the shingly surface of the arid desert ; some that exist only on calcareous soils , and others unknown beyond the limits of the ...
... forest . Nay more : there are some tribes that will flourish only in rich organic mould , others that prefer the shingly surface of the arid desert ; some that exist only on calcareous soils , and others unknown beyond the limits of the ...
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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...