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" 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 past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system - Page 210
by David Page - 1861
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The New Englander, Volumes 19-20

Criticism - 1861 - 1148 pages
...Mr. Webster's statue, at Boston. bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with* birds singing in the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and...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...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 19

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1861 - 992 pages
...statue, at Boston. bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing in the bnshes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms...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...
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Bericht über die fortschritte der anatomie und physiologie ..., Volume 13

Anatomy - 1860 - 694 pages
...through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms so different from oach other and dependent on each other in so complex a...These laws taken in the largest sense, being growth with reproduction ; inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction ; variability from the indirect...
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Bericht über die Fortschritte der Anatomie und Physiologie

Anatomy - 1862 - 638 pages
...reflect that these elaborately constrncted forms so different from oach other and dependent on eaoh other in so complex a manner have all been produced...These laws taken in the largest sense , being growth with reproduction ; inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction ; variability from the indirect...
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Life on the Earth: Its Origin and Succession

John Phillips - Life - 1860 - 280 pages
...various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each...These laws, taken in the largest sense, being growth with reproduction; inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; variability from the indirect...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each...These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction ; Variability from the indirect...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1864 - 472 pages
...various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each...These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Eeproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction ; Variability from the indirect...
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Nature, Volume 4

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1871 - 546 pages
...various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each...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...
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Nature, Volume 4

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1871 - 540 pages
...various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each...manner, have all been produced by laws acting around u-. " .... "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having bet n originally...
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Systematic theology. [With] Index, Volume 2

Charles Hodge - Presbyterian Church - 1872 - 768 pages
...various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each...These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction ; Variability from the indirect...
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