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Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Meetings - Page 135
1872
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Life on the Earth: Its Origin and Succession

John Phillips - 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,...flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other,...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - 1861 - 470 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,...flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other,...
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The Three Barriers: Notes on Mr. Darwin's "Origin of Species."

Gilbert Rorison - 1861 - 192 pages
...earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed by the Creator. It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank,...flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms * * * have all been produced by...
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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
...law of vital diversity. " It is interesting," he says, in one of the most genial passages in Ms work, "to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many...flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that those elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other,...
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The Past and Present Life of the Globe: Being a Sketch in Outline of the ...

David Page - 1861 - 276 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...flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that those elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other,...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - 1864 - 472 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,...flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other,...
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or The Preservation ...

Charles Darwin - 1870 - 468 pages
...will tend to progress towards perfection. It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, slothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing...flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other,...
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Nature, Volume 4

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 540 pages
...( Mr. Grove), all creatures now living on earth have proceeded by orderly evolution Irom some such origin. Darwin Concludes his great work on "The Origin...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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Nature, Volume 4

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 546 pages
...chair (Mr. Grove), all creatures now living on earth have proceeded by orderly evolution from ime such origin. Darwin concludes his great work on "The Origin...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

1872 - 520 pages
...chair (Mr. Grove), all creatures now living on earth have proceeded by orderly evolution from some such origin. Darwin concludes his great work on ' The Origin...flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other,...
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