The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... true notion of Nature or of Nature's requirements while her facts are viewed through the medium of the miraculous . Nor let it be thought that , by recognising in every instance the fixity and unerring operation of Law , we place a ...
... true notion of Nature or of Nature's requirements while her facts are viewed through the medium of the miraculous . Nor let it be thought that , by recognising in every instance the fixity and unerring operation of Law , we place a ...
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... true that many of these fossils are so fragmentary and obscure that they cannot yet be deciphered , and others are so different from anything now existing in the vegetable or animal world that no definite place can be assigned them . It ...
... true that many of these fossils are so fragmentary and obscure that they cannot yet be deciphered , and others are so different from anything now existing in the vegetable or animal world that no definite place can be assigned them . It ...
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... true science , qualities of sterling value that appeal at once to the intel- lectual and physical exigencies of Man ? Does it bear in any way on the industrial purposes of life ; does it present PALEONTOLOGY - ITS USES . 23 itself in ...
... true science , qualities of sterling value that appeal at once to the intel- lectual and physical exigencies of Man ? Does it bear in any way on the industrial purposes of life ; does it present PALEONTOLOGY - ITS USES . 23 itself in ...
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... true science , and stands unworthy to be ranked with the legitimate subjects of intellectual research . Luckily , however , it does all , and recommends itself , as it were , instinctively to the inquiring and reflective mind . Guided ...
... true science , and stands unworthy to be ranked with the legitimate subjects of intellectual research . Luckily , however , it does all , and recommends itself , as it were , instinctively to the inquiring and reflective mind . Guided ...
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... true conception of Nature or of Nature's laws ; could never have woven those chains of reason wherewith it may be said to have linked earth to heaven , and affiliated the created to the uncreated Creator . But inasmuch as God is a God ...
... true conception of Nature or of Nature's laws ; could never have woven those chains of reason wherewith it may be said to have linked earth to heaven , and affiliated the created to the uncreated Creator . But inasmuch as God is a God ...
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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...