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... University of California Publications in History - Stran 2531916Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - 716 strani
...work on ' The Origin of Species ' with the following words :—" It is interesting to contem" plate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many...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... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - 728 strani
...concludes his great work on ' The Origin of Species ' with the following words : — " It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds einging on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 strani
...mental endowments will tent) to progress towards perfection. It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with...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,... | |
| James Thomas Whittaker - 1879 - 318 strani
...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... | |
| Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 394 strani
...concludes his great work on The Origin of Species with the following words: — " It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many...through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaboratelyconstructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex... | |
| Charles Anderson Read - 1880 - 394 strani
...concludes his great work on The Origin of Species with the following words : — " It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many...through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaboratelyconstructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex... | |
| Samuel Wainwright - 1881 - 348 strani
...are its proofs ? Let " the Abraham of scientific men " speak first. " It is interesting," he says,1 " to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many...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... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 strani
...others: 'It Is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds, wita birds singing on the bushes, with various insects...through the damp earth, and to reflect that these i-laborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in eo complex... | |
| Harvey Goodwin - 1883 - 340 strani
...paragraph with which he concludes his work upon the ' Origin of Species." It is interesting (he writes) to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many...constructed forms, so different from each other, and so dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced bylaws acting around us.... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 strani
...others: 'It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds, witn birds singing on the bushes, with various insects...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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