The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... less worthy or important . Science acquires fresh power and position when combined with practice ; Philosophy new dignity when ministering to Humanity . Again , a science that opens up so much of PALEONTOLOGY - ITS USES . 23.
... less worthy or important . Science acquires fresh power and position when combined with practice ; Philosophy new dignity when ministering to Humanity . Again , a science that opens up so much of PALEONTOLOGY - ITS USES . 23.
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... less perfectly preserved , just as they were deposited in the areas where they lived and grew , or were drifted from a distance in detached and scattered fragments - accord- ing as they were rapidly enveloped from further decay , or ...
... less perfectly preserved , just as they were deposited in the areas where they lived and grew , or were drifted from a distance in detached and scattered fragments - accord- ing as they were rapidly enveloped from further decay , or ...
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... less the mere matter of diversity than the plan which connects this diversity into one harmonious system ; less the apparent order which may be learned than the reason thereof , to which human knowledge may never attain . God has ...
... less the mere matter of diversity than the plan which connects this diversity into one harmonious system ; less the apparent order which may be learned than the reason thereof , to which human knowledge may never attain . God has ...
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... less fitted than the other for its purpose in creation . All that he affirms - and common - sense homologates the affirmation— is , that the lichen , composed of a mere congeries of cells , and increasing by a mere homogeneous ...
... less fitted than the other for its purpose in creation . All that he affirms - and common - sense homologates the affirmation— is , that the lichen , composed of a mere congeries of cells , and increasing by a mere homogeneous ...
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... bogs and mud - silts of the present day . Less cosmopolitan than the amphigens , they still have an extensive range ; but , like them , their. Gymnogenous Aspect of Vegetation . Endogenous Aspect of Vegetation . 42 THE PRESENT .
... bogs and mud - silts of the present day . Less cosmopolitan than the amphigens , they still have an extensive range ; but , like them , their. Gymnogenous Aspect of Vegetation . Endogenous Aspect of Vegetation . 42 THE PRESENT .
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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...