Osborn is led to a second hypothesis that "they were gradually bound by a new form of mutual attraction, whereby the actions and reactions of a group of life elements established a new form of unity in the cosmos, an organic unity or organism quite distinct... The Evolution of the Earth and Its Inhabitants - Page 105by Joseph Barrell - 1918 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Fairfield Osborn - Evolution - 1917 - 370 pages
...Whether there was a sudden or a more or less serial grouping of these elements, one by one, we are led to a second hypothesis that they were gradually...new form of unity in the cosmos, an organic unity, an individual or organism quite distinct from the larger and smaller aggregations of inorganic matter... | |
| Henry Fairfield Osborn - Evolution - 1917 - 368 pages
...Whether there was a sudden or a more or less serial grouping of these elements, one by one, we are led to a second hypothesis that they were gradually...new form of unity in the cosmos, an organic unity, an individual or organism quite distinct from the larger and smaller aggregations of inorganic matter... | |
| John Burroughs - Natural history - 1920 - 352 pages
...assumes that these elements were gradually bound by a new form of mutual attraction "out of which arose a new form of unity in the cosmos, an organic unity or organism. It was an application of energy new to the cosmos. In fact it was life." "When the earth had in the... | |
| William C. Summers - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 272 pages
...of chemical elements "were gradually bound up by a new form of mutual attraction whereby the action and reactions of a group of life elements established...new form of unity in the cosmos, an organic unity, an individual or organism quite distinct from the larger and smaller aggregations of inorganic matter... | |
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