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abundance advance ages altogether America animals appear areas arrangement aspects assume bear become beginning birds carboniferous causes chalk character characterised climate connection continuous corals creation crustaceans deposits determine discover distinctive epoch estuaries Europe evidence existing external extinct exuberant facts families fauna fishes flora force forest formations forms fossil fragments function future genera genial geological gigantic give globe gradually growth higher human increase indicated influence known land leaves less lignites limited living lower mammals marine means mesozoic nature never northern numerous occur ocean once oolite operations orders organic organisation origin palæozoic passed past period phases physical plain plants pleistocene present preserved progress races reason regions remains represented reptiles sandstone seas similar species stage stones strata structure successive tertiary tion trace true turn types varied variety vast vegetable vitality waters whole
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Стр. 207 - 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.
Стр. 206 - 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 206 - 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...
Стр. 53 - Every organized being forms a whole, a single circumscribed system, the parts of which mutually correspond and concur to the same definitive action by a reciprocal re-action. None of these parts can change without the others also changing, and consequently each part, taken separately, indicates and gives all the others.
Стр. 55 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent! Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and bums: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, He bounds, connects, and equals all.
Стр. 203 - This argues strongly in favour of the existence in every animal of an immaterial principle similar to that which by its excellence and superior endowments places man so much above animals...
Стр. 141 - Araucariae and cycadeous plants likewise flourish on the Australian continent, where marsupial quadrupeds abound, and thus appear to complete a picture of an ancient condition of the earth's surface, which has been superseded in our hemisphere by other strata, and a higher type of mammalian organisation.
Стр. 116 - Many of them are highly polished, and others are grooved and finely striated, like the stones of existing Alpine glaciers, and like those of the ancient glaciers of the Vosges, Wales, Ireland, and the Highlands of Scotland ; or like many stones in the pleistocene drifts.
Стр. 224 - Megatheria of South America- the geological phenomena of that continent appear to negative the occurrence of such destructive changes. Our comparatively brief experience of the progress and duration of species within the historical period, is surely insufficient to justify, in every case of extinction, the verdict of violent death. With regard to many of the larger Mammalia, especially those which have...
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| Название | The Past and Present Life of the Globe: Being a Sketch in Outline of the World's Life-system Online access with subscription: JISC Historical Texts |
| Автор | David Page |
| Издатель | W. Blackwood and sons, 1861 |
| Владелец оригинала: | Калифорнийский университет |
| Оцифровано | 31 окт 2007 |
| Количество страниц | Всего страниц: 256 |
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