The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... Fossils , or petrified remains of plants and animals , the medals and records of Creation . - The unerring certainty of the record . -Paleontology , or the Science of Extinct Life . - Its scope and bearings , as founded on a knowledge ...
... Fossils , or petrified remains of plants and animals , the medals and records of Creation . - The unerring certainty of the record . -Paleontology , or the Science of Extinct Life . - Its scope and bearings , as founded on a knowledge ...
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... fossil fragments he exhumes , and , comparing them with the plants and animals now peopling the earth , endea- vours to arrive at a knowledge of the various races that have successively adorned its surface . As a stone - hatchet , a ...
... fossil fragments he exhumes , and , comparing them with the plants and animals now peopling the earth , endea- vours to arrive at a knowledge of the various races that have successively adorned its surface . As a stone - hatchet , a ...
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... fossil a chapter in the world's history , which tells of waters that were thronged and of lands that were tenanted by life of races that lived and multiplied and perished- of others that took their places - and this ( as we shall after ...
... fossil a chapter in the world's history , which tells of waters that were thronged and of lands that were tenanted by life of races that lived and multiplied and perished- of others that took their places - and this ( as we shall after ...
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... Fossils " - the remains of plants and animals that were entombed in the silt and sediment of former lakes and estuaries and seas , and became petrified , or converted into stone , as these sedi- ments solidified into rocky strata . As ...
... Fossils " - the remains of plants and animals that were entombed in the silt and sediment of former lakes and estuaries and seas , and became petrified , or converted into stone , as these sedi- ments solidified into rocky strata . As ...
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... fossils are so fragmentary and obscure that they cannot yet be deciphered , and others are so different from anything now existing in the vegetable or animal world that no definite place can be assigned them . It is also true that the ...
... fossils are so fragmentary and obscure that they cannot yet be deciphered , and others are so different from anything now existing in the vegetable or animal world that no definite place can be assigned them . It is also true that 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...