The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... PAST . Characteristics and gradations of the MESOZOIC or " Middle Life " period : 6. The Triassic or Upper New Red Sandstone age.— Its foot - tracks , birds , and reptiles . 7. The Oolitic age . - Sea and land of the epoch . - Its ...
... PAST . Characteristics and gradations of the MESOZOIC or " Middle Life " period : 6. The Triassic or Upper New Red Sandstone age.— Its foot - tracks , birds , and reptiles . 7. The Oolitic age . - Sea and land of the epoch . - Its ...
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... PAST , compared with whose duration the chronology of man is but as the moments of yesterday . The one as connected with the Humanity to which we be- long - chequered and humiliating as it has been in many of its phases - must ever ...
... PAST , compared with whose duration the chronology of man is but as the moments of yesterday . The one as connected with the Humanity to which we be- long - chequered and humiliating as it has been in many of its phases - must ever ...
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... past have similar agencies been at work : here preserving the broken twig and the fallen forest , there the coral - reef and the littoral shell - bed , and anon the remains of animals that were borne by rivers from the land , or drifted ...
... past have similar agencies been at work : here preserving the broken twig and the fallen forest , there the coral - reef and the littoral shell - bed , and anon the remains of animals that were borne by rivers from the land , or drifted ...
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... PAST LIFE of the Globe ; and the time , it is hoped , is not far distant when Geology shall be enabled to read , through these fossil chips and fragments , the Life - History of the World , with as much , if not with greater , certainty ...
... PAST LIFE of the Globe ; and the time , it is hoped , is not far distant when Geology shall be enabled to read , through these fossil chips and fragments , the Life - History of the World , with as much , if not with greater , certainty ...
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David Page. Again , a science that opens up so much of the Past , that reveals so many new forms of life and organisation , cannot fail to have an exalting effect as a purely intellectual exer- cise . The anatomical reasonings - the ...
David Page. Again , a science that opens up so much of the Past , that reveals so many new forms of life and organisation , cannot fail to have an exalting effect as a purely intellectual exer- cise . The anatomical reasonings - the ...
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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...