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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... "
The past and present life of the globe, a sketch of the world's life-system - Page 210
by David Page - 1861
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The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

Science - 1872 - 318 pages
...various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each...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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Report of the Annual Meeting

British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1872 - 728 pages
...various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each...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 Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science

Geology - 1872 - 520 pages
...various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each...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 ... Meeting of the British Association for the ..., Volume 41

British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1872 - 716 pages
...flitting about, and with " worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these clabo" rately constructed forms, so different from each other, and...have all been produced by laws acting " around us.'' . . . . " There is grandeur in this view of life with its " several powers, having been originally...
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The Great Problem: The Higher Ministry of Nature Viewed in the Light of ...

John R. Leifchild - Natural theology - 1872 - 578 pages
...about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constituted forms, so different from each other, and dependent...have all been produced by laws acting around us." And further : — " There is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers, having been originally...
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What is Darwinism?

Charles Hodge - Evolution - 1874 - 190 pages
...various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each...These laws, taken in the largest sense, being growth with reproduction ; variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and...
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On the origin of species by means of natural selection ; or, The ...

Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced...These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect...
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The Cabinet of Irish Literature: Selections from the Works of the ..., Volume 4

Charles Anderson Read - Authors, Irish - 1880 - 394 pages
...about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaboratelyconstructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent...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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The cabinet of Irish literature, with biogr. sketches and literary notices ...

Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 394 pages
...about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaboratelyconstructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent...have all been produced by laws acting around us." . . . " There is grandenr in this view of life with its several powers, having been originally breathed...
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Scientific Sophisms: A Review of Current Theories Concerning Atoms, Apes and Men

Samuel Wainwright - Evolution - 1881 - 348 pages
...about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately-constructed forms so different from each other, and dependent...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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