 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1803 - 614 pages
...every animal and vegetable was at rirst aquatic. " Organic Life beneath the shoreless waves "Was bom and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute,...spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing. " Thus the tall oak, the giant of the wood, Which bears Britannia's thunders on the Hood ; The whale,... | |
 | Literature - 1805 - 420 pages
...retain, digest, secrete, eject. " Organic! life beneath the shoreless waves cant. 1. 1. 255, " Was botn and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves ; " First forms...And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing." ..Much comment on this theory of " organic mud" is unnecessary. It contains in its muddy mass the seeds... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1823 - 816 pages
...earth, sea, air, around, below, above, Lite's subtle woof, in nature's loom is wove. ORGANIC LITE, beneath the shoreless waves, Was born, and nurs'd,...And breathing realms, of fin, and feet, and wing." Although Doctor Darwin was a close observer of nature, a man of great scientific acquirements, a great... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1825 - 114 pages
...spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass ; These, as successive generations bloom, 299 New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume ; Whence...spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing. " Thus the tall oak, the giant of the wood, Which bears Britannia's thunders on the flood; The whale,... | |
 | Scotland - 1861 - 842 pages
...moves, an unconuected point, Plays round the drop i lthout a lluib or Ioiit; Then Vibrio wuv«s," Ac. " These, as successive generations bloom. New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume, Whence counties' groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing." " Hence, ere... | |
 | Science - 1875 - 806 pages
...spheric glasa, Move on the mud or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom. Now powers acquire, and larger limbs assume, Whence countless...groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fln, and feet, and wing." In a note combating the " prejudices " against the doctrine of spontaneous... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - Materialism - 1880 - 156 pages
...attention. A brief extract is significant. " Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nursed in ocean's pearly caves. First forms minute, unseen...spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing.1' Here is evolution, differentiation, origin of species — the discovery and the record in glowing... | |
 | Ernst Krause - Biologists - 1880 - 230 pages
...sea : — " Organic life beneath the Bhoreless waves Was born, and nurs'd in ocean's pearly cares ; First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move...And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing." Iu the continuation of these verses (lines 295-302) the author recalls to mind that the higher animals,... | |
 | Ernst Krause, Charles Darwin - Biologists - 1880 - 258 pages
...earth." 9») (S. 166.) „Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born , and nurs'd in ocearis pearly caves; First forms minute, unseen by spheric...groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms offin, andfeet, and wing." 97) (S. 166.) „Imperious man, who rules the bestial crowd, Of language... | |
 | Grant Allen - Biography & Autobiography - 1885 - 226 pages
...of his philosophical position : — 1 Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born, and nursed in ocean's pearly caves ; First forms minute, unseen...spring, And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing.' Have we not here the very beginnings of Charles Darwin ? Do we not see, in these profound and fundamental... | |
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Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs... 
