 | Cassell, ltd - 1863 - 848 pages
...important affairs of the economy of nature, on which our own well-being more or less immediately depends. " Consider their incredible numbers, their universal...ever-active, invisible scavengers for the salubrity of our atmosphere. Nor is this all ; they perform a still more important office, in preventing the gradual... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 556 pages
...What are the uses of these beings ? To this question Professor Owen gives the following reply : — " Consider their incredible numbers, their universal...assimilate. Surely we must in some degree be indebted to those ever-active invisible scavengers for the salubrity of our atmosphere. Nor is this all : they... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 556 pages
...What are the uses of these beings ? To this question Professor Owen gives the following reply : — "Consider their incredible numbers, their universal...and that it is the particles of decaying vegetable aud animal bodies which they ore appointed to devour and assimilate. Surely we must in some degree... | |
 | Frederick Davies - 1870 - 382 pages
...important offices of the economy of nature on which our own well-being more or less immediately depends. Consider their incredible numbers, their universal...assimilate. " Surely we must in some degree be indebted to those ever-active invisible scavengers for the salubrity of our atmosphere. Nor is this all ; they... | |
 | John Brocklesby - 1871 - 170 pages
...words of Professor Owen, who thus unfolded his views upon this subject, in one of his lectures: — "Consider their incredible numbers, their universal...Surely we must, in some degree, be indebted to these ever active, invisible scavengers for the salubrity of the atmosphere, and the purity of water. ISTor... | |
 | John Brocklesby - 1871 - 176 pages
...words of Professor Owen, who thus unfolded his views upon this subject, in one of his lectures: — "Consider their incredible numbers, their universal...Surely we must, in some degree, be indebted to these ever active, invisible scavengers for the salubrity of the atmosphere, and the purity of water. Nor... | |
 | Sir Charles Alexander Cameron - 1874 - 570 pages
...Owen. " Consider," says that philosopher, when speaking of the infusoria, "their incredible numbers, their insatiable voracity, and that it is the particles...assimilate. Surely, we must in some degree be indebted to those ever-active invisible scavengers for the salubrity of our atmosphere. Nor is this all. They perform... | |
 | Charles Alexander Cameron - 1874 - 534 pages
...Owen. " Consider," says that philosopher, when speaking of the infusoria, " their incredible numbers, their insatiable voracity, and that it is the particles of decaying vegetable and animul bodies which they are appointed to devour and assimilate. Surely, we must in some degree be... | |
 | 1876 - 832 pages
...numbers, their insatiable voracity, and that it is the particles of decaying animal and vegetable bodies they are appointed to devour and assimilate. Surely, we must in some degree be indebted to those overaciive invisible scavengers for the salubrity of our atmosphere. Nor is this all, they perform... | |
 | Franc Bangs Wilkie - 1883 - 700 pages
...crusts of the earth. They have still another mission that is essential in the system of creation. " Consider their incredible numbers, their universal...the salubrity of the atmosphere, and the purity of the water. Nor is this * II. Trembly. (• The Microscope. Hogg. all; they perform a still more important... | |
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Consider their incredible numbers, their universal distribution, their insatiable voracity; and that it is the particles of decaying vegetable and animal bodies which they are appointed to devour and assimilate. Surely we must in some degree be indebted... 
