The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... operation of Law , we place a wider distance between the Creator and his works , or that any knowledge of this kind has a tend- ency to self - sufficiency or irreverence . On the con- trary , he who knows most of creational law , and ...
... operation of Law , we place a wider distance between the Creator and his works , or that any knowledge of this kind has a tend- ency to self - sufficiency or irreverence . On the con- trary , he who knows most of creational law , and ...
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... operations . And , after all , it is 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 ...
... operations . And , after all , it is 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 ...
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... operation , we can determine the relative positions not merely of the plants that now adorn the various regions of the earth , but of those that existed during the successive epochs of her by- gone history . As a region of shrubs and ...
... operation , we can determine the relative positions not merely of the plants that now adorn the various regions of the earth , but of those that existed during the successive epochs of her by- gone history . As a region of shrubs and ...
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... operations . Between these two great 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 ...
... operations . Between these two great 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 ...
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... operations of nature , our reasonings would be baseless , our conclusions a dream . We can only read the Past as ... operation of natural law , and appeal to " revolutions " and " cataclysms , " and you present a world of disorder , a ...
... operations of nature , our reasonings would be baseless , our conclusions a dream . We can only read the Past as ... operation of natural law , and appeal to " revolutions " and " cataclysms , " and you present a world of disorder , a ...
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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...