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" It is interesting to contemplate a tangled 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... "
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or The Preservation ... - Page 423
by Charles Darwin - 1870 - 440 pages
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The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

1872 - 318 pages
...Species with the following words : — ' It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing...have all been produced by laws acting around us.'" We are not aware that Sir William stated that even a single •seed such as he speaks of was ever found...
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The Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science

1872 - 520 pages
...Species ' with the following words :—" It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing...have all been produced by laws acting around us." . . . "There is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers, having been originally breathed...
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Report of the Annual Meeting

British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - 728 pages
...interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds einging on the bushes, with various insects flitting about,...have all been produced by laws acting around us." . . . . " There is grandeur in this view of life with ite several powers, having been originally breathed...
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The Great Problem: The Higher Ministry of Nature Viewed in the Light of ...

John R. Leifchild - 1872 - 576 pages
...says Mr. Darwin at the close of his ' Origin of Species,' " to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing...damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constituted forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner,...
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Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the ..., Volume 41

British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - 716 pages
...Species ' with the following words :—" It is interesting to contem" plate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds, with '• birds singing...through the damp earth, and to reflect that these clabo" rately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on " each other in so...
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On the origin of species by means of natural selection ; or, The ...

Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...will tent) to progress towards perfection. It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing...forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws,...
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Physiology: preliminary course lectures

James Thomas Whittaker - 1879 - 318 pages
...crawling upon the bosom of the great mother earth. It is interesting to contemplate all these things, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, yet so dependent upon each other, have all been produced by laws continually acting around us. The...
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The cabinet of Irish literature, with biogr. sketches and literary notices ...

Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 394 pages
...Species with the following words: — " It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing...through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaboratelyconstructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex...
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The Cabinet of Irish Literature: Selections from the Works of the ..., Volume 4

Charles Anderson Read - 1880 - 394 pages
...Species with the following words : — " It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing...through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaboratelyconstructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex...
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Scientific Sophisms: A Review of Current Theories Concerning Atoms, Apes and Men

Samuel Wainwright - 1881 - 348 pages
...scientific men " speak first. " It is interesting," he says,1 " to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing...through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately-constructed forms so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex...
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