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" If our improved chemistry (says he,) should ever discover the art of making sugar from fossile or aerial matter, without the assistance of vegetation, food for animals would then become as plentiful as water, and they might live upon the earth without... "
The temple of nature - Page 147
by Erasmus Darwin - 1806
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The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing The Economy of ...

Erasmus Darwin - 1798 - 472 pages
...beings. And that, if our improved chemiftry fhould tver difcover the art of making fugar from foflile or aerial matter, without the affiftance of vegetation,...animals would then become as plentiful as water, and mankind might live upon the earth as thick as blades of grafs, with no reftraint to their numbers but...
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The Temple of Nature, Or, The Origin of Society: A Poem, with Philosophical ...

Erasmus Darwin - 1804 - 364 pages
...Repletion., heat, and labour by excess, making sugar from fossilc or aerial matter, without the assistance of vegetation, food for animals would then become...without preying on each other, as thick as blades of grass, with no restraint to their numbers but the want of local room. It would seem that roots fixed...
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Facts authentic, in science and religion: designed to illustrate a new tr ...

William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...should over discover the ¡itt of making silbar from fossil;; or aerial matter without the assistance of vegetation, food for animals would then become as plentiful as water, and they might livo upon the earth tat/tout finying on each other, as thick as blndes of grass, with no restraint...
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The London Magazine, Volume 6

1822 - 694 pages
...should ever discover the art of making sugar from fossile or aerial matter, without the assistance of vegetation, food for animals would then become as plentiful as water, and they mfght live upon the earth without preying on each other, as thick as blades of grass, without restraint...
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The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts; Containing The Economy of ...

Erasmus Darwin - 1824 - 246 pages
...chemistry should ever discover the art of making sugar from fossile or aerial matter without the assistance of vegetation, food for animals would then become as plentiful as water, and mankind might live upon the earth as thick as blades of grass, with no restraint to their numbers but...
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The Temple of Nature: Or, The Origin of Society, a Poem with Philosophical Notes

Erasmus Darwin - 1825 - 114 pages
...chemistry should ever discover the art of making sugar from fossile or aerial matter without the assistance of vegetation, food for animals would then become...water, and they might live upon the earth without preyii on each other, as thick as blades of grass, wi no restraint to their numbers but the want of...
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Lives of English Poets: From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a ...

Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - 436 pages
...should ever discover the art of making sugar from fossile or aerial matter, without the assistance of vegetation, food for animals would then become...without preying on each other, as thick as blades of grass, without restraint to their numbers but the want of local room : no very comfortable prospect,...
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Lives of English Poets: From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a ...

Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - 436 pages
...fossile or aerial matter, without the assistance of vegetation, food for animals would then hecome as plentiful as water, and they might live upon the...without preying on each other, as thick as blades of grass, without restraint to their numbers but the want of local room: no very comfortable prospect,...
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Evolution, Old and New: Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, and ...

Samuel Butler - 1879 - 436 pages
...chemistry should discover the art of making sugar from fossil or aerial matter without the assistance of vegetation, food for animals would then become as plentiful as water, and mankind might live upon the earth as thick as blades of grass, with no restraint to their numbers but...
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The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: Evolution, old and new

Samuel Butler - 1924 - 426 pages
...chemistry should discover the art of making sugar from fossil or aerial matter without the assistance of vegetation, food for animals would then become as plentiful as water, and mankind might live upon the earth as thick as blades of grass, with no restraint to their numbers but...
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