 It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.  Gardens and Their Meaning - Page 138by Dora Williams - 1911 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Religions (Proposed, universal, etc.) - 1882 - 108 pages
...ploughed, and still continues to be thus ploughed by earth worms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part...the world, as have these lowly organized creatures. Some other animals, however, still more lowly organized, namely corals, have done far more conspicuous... | |
 | Young people - 1882 - 608 pages
...and still continues to be thus ploughed, and by earth worms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part...the world, as have these lowly organized creatures. 50 51 just distinguish between light and darkness ; they are completely deaf, and have only a feeble... | |
 | 1882 - 916 pages
...the surface of the land. It may, indeed, as Mr. Darwin concludes, "be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part...the world as have these lowly organized creatures." One of the charms of the present work is that it is extremely easy to read, the nature of the subject... | |
 | John Ross Macduff - Children - 1882 - 304 pages
...average garden ground ; half that number in corn-fields.) " It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organised creatures. Some others, however, still more lowly organised, namely, corals, have done far... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Earthworms - 1882 - 358 pages
...ploughed, and still continues to be thus ploughed by earth-worms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organised creatures. Some other animals, however, still more lowly organised, namely corals, have done... | |
 | Linnean Society of New South Wales - Natural history - 1882 - 926 pages
...we may accept in its widest significance his remark that " it may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly creatures." organization. He stated as his opinion that it would in all probability be found that the... | |
 | 1882 - 816 pages
...not hesitate to say (p. 313, and I fully agree with him), ' It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organised creatures.' The influence of the worm in gradually causing the real or apparent sinking of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1882 - 634 pages
...ploughed, and still continues to be thus ploughed, by earth-worms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organised creatures. Some other animals, however, still more lowly organised, namely corals, have done... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1882 - 1190 pages
...not hesitate to say (p. 313, and I fully agree with him), ' It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organised creatures.' The influence of the worm in gradually causing the real or apparent sinking of... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1882 - 838 pages
...ploughed, and still continues to be thus ploughed, by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly-organized creatures." The writer of an article on Mr. Darwin's work in the Quarterly of January,... | |
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