| Tobias Smollett - 1803 - 614 pages
...and webs with webs unite ; And quick Contraction with ethereal flame Lights into life the fibre-woven frame. — Hence without parent by spontaneous birth Rise the first specks of animated earth j From Nature's womb the plant or insect swims, And buds or breathes, with microscopic limbs. " In... | |
| Erasmus Darwin - 1804 - 364 pages
...Organic Life increases. ADDITIONAL NOTES. ADDITIONAL NOTES. SPONTANEOUS VITALITY OF MICROSCOPIC ANIMALS. Hence without parent by spontaneous birth Rise the first specks of animated earth. CANTO II 127. Prejudices against this doctrine. I. FHOM the misconception of the ignorant or superstitious,... | |
| 1807 - 556 pages
...for them' — that ' ffom or. ganic particles accumulated, originate animal appetencies'— that ' Hence without parent, by spontaneous birth, Rise the first specks of animated earth.' And that this earthy matter of spontaneous animation has been aggregated into all the shapes and sizes... | |
| 1807 - 558 pages
...for them' — that ' from or. ranic particles accumulated, originate animal appetencies' — (hat ' Hence without parent, by spontaneous birth, Rise the first specks of animated earth.1 , , And that this earthy matter of spontaneous animation has been aggre» gated into all the... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 742 pages
...doctrine in his physiological principles to an extent that cannot be supported. Tempi, of Nat. i. 147. Hence, without parent, by spontaneous birth, Rise...plant or insect swims, And buds or breathes, with microscopio limbs. " Ai iatotle," observes Mr. Good, in his note on the atore passage from Lucretius,... | |
| Richard Carlile - 1823 - 816 pages
...dissolution springs, And gives to matter its eccentric wings, « * * * * t * Hence wit/tout patent, by spontaneous birth, Rise the first specks, of animated...microscopic limbs. In earth, sea, air, around, below, above, Lite's subtle woof, in nature's loom is wove. ORGANIC LITE, beneath the shoreless waves, Was born,... | |
| Samuel Wright - 1843 - 74 pages
...iv. 802. Dr. Darwin has also carried the idea of equivocal generation to a most fanciful extent — Hence, without parent, by spontaneous birth Rise the...swims, And buds or breathes, with microscopic limbs. TEMPLE OF NATURE, 1. 247. In the additional notes to this poem the Doctor gravely remarks — " it... | |
| American Philosophical Society - 1873 - 662 pages
...generation ; and thus concludes : " Hence, without parent, by spontaneous birth. Rise the first specs of animated earth ; From Nature's womb the plant or...swims, And buds or breathes, with microscopic limbs." [The Temple of Xature]. " Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born, and nurs'd in Ocean's... | |
| American Philosophical Society - 1878 - 616 pages
...generation ; and thus concludes : " Hence, without parent, by spontaneous birth, Rise the first specs of animated earth ; From Nature's womb the plant or...swims, And buds or breathes, with microscopic limbs." [The Temple of Katurc], "Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born, and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly... | |
| Ernst Krause - 1879 - 224 pages
...then go back still further we arrive necessarily at the hypothesis of spontaneous production : — " Hence without parent by spontaneous birth Rise the first specks of animated earth." The examples which he adduces as probable occurrences of spontaneous generation at the present day,... | |
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