The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... passing footprint or the slimy trail that was left on the yielding sands of a former sea - shore . In whatever state ... passed its infancy , and that of the innumerable relics entombed in the rocky strata of different regions only a ...
... passing footprint or the slimy trail that was left on the yielding sands of a former sea - shore . In whatever state ... passed its infancy , and that of the innumerable relics entombed in the rocky strata of different regions only a ...
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... passed away . Such is the nature and scope of Palæontology — a science whose function is to extract from the sandstones , and lime- stones , and clays of the stratified crust , the petrified remains of plants and animals , and from ...
... passed away . Such is the nature and scope of Palæontology — a science whose function is to extract from the sandstones , and lime- stones , and clays of the stratified crust , the petrified remains of plants and animals , and from ...
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... passed away . We say the various phases of existing nature , for the plants and animals that people the surface of any given latitude may differ altogether in character from those en- tombed in the strata beneath , and the organisms in ...
... passed away . We say the various phases of existing nature , for the plants and animals that people the surface of any given latitude may differ altogether in character from those en- tombed in the strata beneath , and the organisms in ...
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... passing observer may readily perceive ; the reason why , man may never know . It is of little avail to talk of the plasticity of the vegetable organism under the force of external conditions , or to tell us that under these 30 THE PRESENT .
... passing observer may readily perceive ; the reason why , man may never know . It is of little avail to talk of the plasticity of the vegetable organism under the force of external conditions , or to tell us that under these 30 THE PRESENT .
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... passed since the date of their deposit . And yet even for this , too , the time will undoubtedly ar- rive ! Geological events are the orderly results of natural laws ; laws are as fixed in their times as in their modes of action ; and ...
... passed since the date of their deposit . And yet even for this , too , the time will undoubtedly ar- rive ! Geological events are the orderly results of natural laws ; laws are as fixed in their times as in their modes of action ; and ...
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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...