The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... genera and species from those of the northern , there is still in the respective stages a sufficient resemblance of growth , colouring , and inflorescence , to prove that , lati- tude for latitude , the prime governing influence is ...
... genera and species from those of the northern , there is still in the respective stages a sufficient resemblance of growth , colouring , and inflorescence , to prove that , lati- tude for latitude , the prime governing influence is ...
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... genera and species , we find some limited to a single valley , to a solitary island , or , it may be , to some particular mountain - slope which , as far as science can perceive , enjoys no external influence that is not equally shared ...
... genera and species , we find some limited to a single valley , to a solitary island , or , it may be , to some particular mountain - slope which , as far as science can perceive , enjoys no external influence that is not equally shared ...
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... genera and orders , and to learn their functions and relations , is the task of the student of Nature . Proceeding upon this plan , the botanist arranges plants according to the complexity of their organs , attempt- ing to separate the ...
... genera and orders , and to learn their functions and relations , is the task of the student of Nature . Proceeding upon this plan , the botanist arranges plants according to the complexity of their organs , attempt- ing to separate the ...
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... genera , and upwards of 100,000 species . As most of these distinctions , however , are founded on the form and connection of the flower , fruit , and leaf— organs which rarely or never occur in intelligible union and preservation in a ...
... genera , and upwards of 100,000 species . As most of these distinctions , however , are founded on the form and connection of the flower , fruit , and leaf— organs which rarely or never occur in intelligible union and preservation in a ...
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... genera , and even whole families , have died out , and others have taken their places - and this has been repeated again and again - still have all the successive incomers been con- structed upon the same plan , and designed to perform ...
... genera , and even whole families , have died out , and others have taken their places - and this has been repeated again and again - still have all the successive incomers been con- structed upon the same plan , and designed to perform ...
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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...