The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system1861 |
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... ocean ; while under the magic lenses of an Ehrenberg these muds , and marls , and chalks , have become instinct with life , and ancient waters swarm with innumerable forms . " The dust we tread upon was once alive . " Much as these and ...
... ocean ; while under the magic lenses of an Ehrenberg these muds , and marls , and chalks , have become instinct with life , and ancient waters swarm with innumerable forms . " The dust we tread upon was once alive . " Much as these and ...
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... ocean - an advance upwards into the rarer regions of the atmosphere being equivalent , in some measure , to an advance northwards or southwards into the colder latitudes * The equatorial zone extends on both sides of the equator to ...
... ocean - an advance upwards into the rarer regions of the atmosphere being equivalent , in some measure , to an advance northwards or southwards into the colder latitudes * The equatorial zone extends on both sides of the equator to ...
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... ocean should differ from the plants of the marsh , the plants of the marsh from the herbage of the open plain , and the verdure of the plain distinct from that of the mountain forest . Nay more : there are some tribes that will flourish ...
... ocean should differ from the plants of the marsh , the plants of the marsh from the herbage of the open plain , and the verdure of the plain distinct from that of the mountain forest . Nay more : there are some tribes that will flourish ...
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... ocean , or spread scum - like over the surface of the stagnant pool . Decay and putrescence seem to be their appointed elements ; and wherever the organic cell is on the verge of dissolution into inorganic matter , there they are ready ...
... ocean , or spread scum - like over the surface of the stagnant pool . Decay and putrescence seem to be their appointed elements ; and wherever the organic cell is on the verge of dissolution into inorganic matter , there they are ready ...
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... ocean ; and thus the sea - weeds and shells that grow and live within the influence of the tides constitute a Littoral zone very different from the Laminarian or broad sea - tangle zone which extends , in British seas , from 40 to 90 ...
... ocean ; and thus the sea - weeds and shells that grow and live within the influence of the tides constitute a Littoral zone very different from the Laminarian or broad sea - tangle zone which extends , in British seas , from 40 to 90 ...
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
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 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...