The Past and Present Life of the Globe: Being a Sketch in Outline of the World's Life-systemW. Blackwood and sons, 1861 - 256 стор. |
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... land . - Existing forms and distribution of life . - General and local extinctions . - Man , pre - historic and historic . - Mutations of the human race , 151 THE LAW . General deductions arising from the discoveries of 12 CONTENTS .
... land . - Existing forms and distribution of life . - General and local extinctions . - Man , pre - historic and historic . - Mutations of the human race , 151 THE LAW . General deductions arising from the discoveries of 12 CONTENTS .
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... race . - Life aspects of the future . - Progression or succession ? -Onward and upward , • - PAGE 177 CONCLUSION . What has been aimed at . - The known and the unknown . - The field in which we may all become fellow - workers . - The ...
... race . - Life aspects of the future . - Progression or succession ? -Onward and upward , • - PAGE 177 CONCLUSION . What has been aimed at . - The known and the unknown . - The field in which we may all become fellow - workers . - The ...
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... races that may have peopled any given locality ; so in geology the earnest inquirer examines every accessible stratum , col- lects the fossil fragments he exhumes , and , comparing them with the plants and animals now peopling the earth ...
... races that may have peopled any given locality ; so in geology the earnest inquirer examines every accessible stratum , col- lects the fossil fragments he exhumes , and , comparing them with the plants and animals now peopling the earth ...
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... races that lived and multiplied and perished- of others that took their places — and this ( as we shall after- wards see ) so often repeated , over and over and over again , that the mind , at first excited by the marvels it unfolds ...
... races that lived and multiplied and perished- of others that took their places — and this ( as we shall after- wards see ) so often repeated , over and over and over again , that the mind , at first excited by the marvels it unfolds ...
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... geographer now maps out the areas of sea and land , and depicts the various races of life — the belts of sterility and exuberance - and the creative centres from which peculiar families have emanated to perform their functions THE PRESENT.
... geographer now maps out the areas of sea and land , and depicts the various races of life — the belts of sterility and exuberance - and the creative centres from which peculiar families have emanated to perform their functions THE PRESENT.
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Сторінка 207 - 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.
Сторінка 206 - 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 206 - 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...
Сторінка 53 - Every organized being forms a whole, a single circumscribed system, the parts of which mutually correspond and concur to the same definitive action by a reciprocal re-action. None of these parts can change without the others also changing, and consequently each part, taken separately, indicates and gives all the others.
Сторінка 55 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent! Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and bums: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, He bounds, connects, and equals all.
Сторінка 203 - This argues strongly in favour of the existence in every animal of an immaterial principle similar to that which by its excellence and superior endowments places man so much above animals...
Сторінка 141 - Araucariae and cycadeous plants likewise flourish on the Australian continent, where marsupial quadrupeds abound, and thus appear to complete a picture of an ancient condition of the earth's surface, which has been superseded in our hemisphere by other strata, and a higher type of mammalian organisation.
Сторінка 116 - Many of them are highly polished, and others are grooved and finely striated, like the stones of existing Alpine glaciers, and like those of the ancient glaciers of the Vosges, Wales, Ireland, and the Highlands of Scotland ; or like many stones in the pleistocene drifts.
Сторінка 224 - Megatheria of South America- the geological phenomena of that continent appear to negative the occurrence of such destructive changes. Our comparatively brief experience of the progress and duration of species within the historical period, is surely insufficient to justify, in every case of extinction, the verdict of violent death. With regard to many of the larger Mammalia, especially those which have...