The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... perform . We can only reason respecting the Past from our knowledge of the the Present ; and the more intimate our acquaintance with the various phases of existing nature , the sounder our deductions relating to those that have long ...
... perform . We can only reason respecting the Past from our knowledge of the the Present ; and the more intimate our acquaintance with the various phases of existing nature , the sounder our deductions relating to those that have long ...
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David Page. from which peculiar families have emanated to perform their functions in the great economy of nature . I.ITS FLORA OR PLANT - LIFE . Glancing first at the VEGETABLE WORLD , we perceive that the great regulators of plant ...
David Page. from which peculiar families have emanated to perform their functions in the great economy of nature . I.ITS FLORA OR PLANT - LIFE . Glancing first at the VEGETABLE WORLD , we perceive that the great regulators of plant ...
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... perform the same round of development and reproduc- tion . How this cell , or globule of matter , should become vivified - how it should be capable , under certain conditions of heat , light , and moisture , of being reproduced indefin ...
... perform the same round of development and reproduc- tion . How this cell , or globule of matter , should become vivified - how it should be capable , under certain conditions of heat , light , and moisture , of being reproduced indefin ...
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... perform in the plant's growth and perfection . The higher , therefore , that a plant is in the scale of being , the more specialised its organisation ; that is , instead of all the functions or several of its functions being performed ...
... perform in the plant's growth and perfection . The higher , therefore , that a plant is in the scale of being , the more specialised its organisation ; that is , instead of all the functions or several of its functions being performed ...
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... perform analogous functions , and represent them , as it were , in the great plan of vital eco- nomy . Thus , the ostrich of Africa is represented in South America by its congener the rhea ; the jaguar and puma of the New World ...
... perform analogous functions , and represent them , as it were , in the great plan of vital eco- nomy . Thus , the ostrich of Africa is represented in South America by its congener the rhea ; the jaguar and puma of the New World ...
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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...