 | Diane Coyle - 2007 - 296 pages
...Nature, a long and popular poem setting out the theory: Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute,...spring, And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing. The popularity of the poem seems to have stemmed more from its lascivious tone than its literary quality—... | |
 | Susan Tyler Hitchcock - 2007 - 412 pages
...Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society, published in 1803. As Darwin described it, life forms "new powers acquire, and larger limbs assume / Whence...And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing." Notions of evolving life forms led logically back to questions about the origin of life itself. Joseph... | |
 | David Young - 2007 - 12 pages
...organisms would have acquired new powers and more complex structures as successive generations passed. 'Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing.' A shrub of the genus Darwinia. This genus was named in honour of Erasmus Darwin by Edward Rudge in... | |
 | Massimiliano Morini - 2007 - 274 pages
...KUSSMAUL, Strategie der Ubersetzung. Ein Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch, Gunter Narr, Tùbingen 1982, passim. Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing. 1 La vita organica sotto onde senza rive Nacque e fu svezzata nelle caverne perlacee dell'oceano; Prima... | |
 | Christa Knellwolf King, Jane R. Goodall - 2008 - 252 pages
...developed from microscopic organisms in the oceans: Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born, and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves; First, forms minute,...vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing.40 His belief that the species were mutable, rather than fixed at the time of creation, lent empirical... | |
 | John Kessel - 2008 - 330 pages
...spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, O New powers acquire and larger limbs assume; Whence...spring, And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing. "People say this offers proof of the Great Flood. Do you think, Mr. Frankenstein, that Matlock could... | |
 | Bruce A. Smith - 2008 - 228 pages
...evolutionary theory, as you can see in this excerpt: Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute,...spring, And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing. It was not until after Charles Darwin's trip around the world that he developed his theory of natural... | |
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Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs... 
