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... The Chautauquan - Page 721906Full view - About this book
| Criticism - 1861 - 1148 pages
...various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that those elaborately constructed forms, so different from each...manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. .... There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed... | |
| Anatomy - 1860 - 694 pages
...many plants of many kinds, with birds singing in the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to...these elaborately constructed forms so different from oach other and dependent on each other in so complex a manner have all been produced by laws acting... | |
| Anatomy - 1862 - 638 pages
...many plants of many kinds, with birds singing in the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constrncted forms so different from oach other and dependent on eaoh other in so complex a manner have... | |
| David Page - Paleontology - 1861 - 276 pages
...various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that those elaborately constructed forms, so different from each...These laws, taken in the largest sense, being growth by reproduction ; inheritance, which is almost implied by reproduction ; variability from the indirect... | |
| David Page - 1861 - 278 pages
...various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that those elaborately constructed forms, so different from each...These laws, taken in the largest sense, being growth by reproduction ; inheritance, which is almost implied by reproduction ; variability from the indirect... | |
| Gilbert Rorison - Evolution - 1861 - 192 pages
...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 * * * have all been produced by laws acting around us. * * * There is grandeur in this view of life.... | |
| Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1864 - 472 pages
...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...laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Eeproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction ; Variability from the indirect... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1871 - 546 pages
...many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, wiih various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to...have all been produced by laws acting around us." . . . . " There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having bein originally brea'hcd... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1871 - 662 pages
...many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, wiih various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to...manner, have all been produced by laws acting around u>. " . . . . "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having be< n originally... | |
| Science - 1872 - 318 pages
...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...have all been produced by laws acting around us.'" We are not aware that Sir William stated that even a single •seed such as he speaks of was ever found... | |
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