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" It is interesting to contemplate an entangled 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... "
Popular Lectures and Addresses: Geology and general physics - Page 201
by William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1894 - 654 pages
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The New Englander, Volumes 19-20

1861 - 1148 pages
...various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that those elaborately constructed forms, so different from each...been produced by laws acting around us. .... There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few...
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Bericht über die fortschritte der anatomie und physiologie ..., Volume 13

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...manner have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws taken in the largest sense, being growth with reproduction ; inheritance which is almost...
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Bericht über die Fortschritte der Anatomie und Physiologie

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 by laws acting around us. These laws taken in the largest sense , being growth with reproduction ; inheritance which is almost...
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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,...manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being growth with reproduction; inheritance which is almost...
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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,...manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost...
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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
...various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that those elaborately constructed forms, so different from each...manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being growth by reproduction ; inheritance, which is almost...
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The Past and Present Life of the Globe: Being a Sketch in Outline of the ...

David Page - 1861 - 276 pages
...various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that those elaborately constructed forms, so different from each...manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being growth by reproduction ; inheritance, which is almost...
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The Three Barriers: Notes on Mr. Darwin's "Origin of Species."

Gilbert Rorison - 1861 - 192 pages
...worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms * * * have all been produced by laws acting around us. * * * There is grandeur in this view of life. — Origin of Species, ch. xiv. King : How do you, pretty lady ? Ophelia: Well, God 'ield yon! They...
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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,...manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Eeproduction ; Inheritance which is almost...
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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...manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost...
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