 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1873 - 486 pages
...terrestrial magnetism and the anrora. By their vivifying action vegetables are enabled to draw support from inorganic matter, and become in their turn the support of animals and man, and the sources of those great deposits of dynamical efficiency which arc laid up for human use... | |
 | Archibald Tucker Ritchie - 1874 - 690 pages
...winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium • of the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism. By their vivifying...dynamical efficiency which are laid up for human use in oar coal strata. By them the water of the sea is made to circulate in vapour through the air, and irrigate... | |
 | Western Society of Engineers (Chicago, Ill.) - Engineering - 1876 - 388 pages
...territorial magnetism and the Aurora. By their vivifying action vegetables are enabled to draw support from inorganic matter, and become in their turn the support of animals and man, and the source of those great deposita of dynamical efficiency which are laid up for onr use iu... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - Astronomy - 1877 - 444 pages
...„By the vivifying action of the BUD'S rays vegetables are enabled to draw support from inorganio matter and become, in their turn, the support of animals and of man, and the cources of those great deposits of dynamical efficiency which иге laid up for human use in our coal... | |
 | 1879 - 684 pages
...from Herschel : " By the vivifying action of the sun's rays vegetables are enabled to draw support from inorganic matter and become, in their turn, the support of animals and man." The seed we sow in the earth grows into a blade of grass, a vegetable, a shrub, a tree ; but... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1881 - 572 pages
...terrestrial magnetism and the aurora. By their vivifying action, vegetables are enabled to draw support from inorganic matter, and become in their turn the support of animals and man, and the source of those great deposits of dynamical efficiency which are laid up for human use... | |
 | H. Mortimer Franklyn - 1881 - 830 pages
...lightning, also terrestrial magnetism. By their vivifying action vegetables are enabled to draw support from inorganic matter, and become in their turn the support of animals and man, and the source of those great deposits of dynamical energies which are laid up for human use in... | |
 | Thomas Alexander Wise, Thomas Wise - Celts - 1884 - 312 pages
...from inorganic matter, to become in turn nourishment for animals and for man ; it is the source of all those great deposits of dynamical efficiency which are laid up for human use in our coal strata.'2' "Nature," says Mayer, "stores up the light which streams from the sun, overspreading the... | |
 | Brooklyn Ethical Association - Conduct of life - 1895 - 440 pages
...terrestrial magnetism and the aurora. By their vivifying action vegetables are enabled to draw support from inorganic matter, and become in their turn the support of animals and man, and the source of those great deposits of dynamical efficiency which are laid up for human use... | |
 | American periodicals - 1873 - 864 pages
...terrestrial magnetism and the aurora. By their vivifying action vegetables are enabled to draw support from inorganic matter ; and become in their turn the support of animals and man, and the source of those great deposits of dynamical efficiency which are laid up for human use... | |
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By them the waters of the sea are made to circulate in vapour through the air, and irrigate the land, producing springs and rivers. 
