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" It is interesting to contemplate an entangled 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 "
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder - Page 17
by Richard Dawkins - 2000 - 354 pages
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Bericht über die fortschritte der anatomie und physiologie ..., Volume 13

Anatomy - 1860 - 694 pages
...Schiusseata des Darwin'schen Werkes m¿ichte allein dieses Urtheil begrüxiden. Darwin sagt hier (p. 490): ,,It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank,...with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing in the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth,...
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Life on the Earth: Its Origin and Succession

John Phillips - Life - 1860 - 262 pages
...the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. 'It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank,...and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on...
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Life on the Earth: Its Origin and Succession

John Phillips - Life - 1860 - 280 pages
...the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection. 'It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank,...and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on...
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The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system

David Page - 1861 - 278 pages
...of vital diversity. " It is interesting," he says, in one of the most genial passages in his work, "to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many...and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that those elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1866 - 668 pages
...the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank,...and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on...
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Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or ..., Volume 4

Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - Religion and science - 1870 - 538 pages
...taken as a fair sample of Darwin's book. It contains a number of abstractions. Mr. Darwin says :— "It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank,...many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the branches, with various insects ilitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth,—and...
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American Journal of Science and Arts, Volume 102

Science - 1871 - 518 pages
...origin. Darwin concludes his great work on ' The Origin of Species ' with the following words:—" It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank...and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent-on...
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Nature, Volume 4

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1871 - 540 pages
...origin. Darwin Concludes his great werk on "The Origin of Species" with the following words:—"It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed...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 reflect...
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The Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science

Geology - 1872 - 520 pages
...origin. Darwin concludes his great work on ' The Origin of Species ' with the following words :—•" It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank...and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms. so different from each other, and dependent on...
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The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

Science - 1872 - 318 pages
...such origin. Darwin concludes his great work on The Origin of Spfdes with the following words:—'It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed...and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so differentfrom each other, and dependent on...
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