 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1872 - 716 pages
...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 kinds, with '• birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with " worms crawling through the damp earth,... | |
 | John R. Leifchild - Natural theology - 1872 - 578 pages
...merits. "It is interesting," says Mr. Darwin at the close of his ' Origin of Species,' " to contemplate an entangled 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,... | |
 | Science - 1872 - 318 pages
...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 singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth,... | |
 | Elkanah Billings, Bernard James Harrington, James Thomas Donald - Geology - 1872 - 534 pages
...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 singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth,... | |
 | Geology - 1872 - 520 pages
...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 singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth,... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1872 - 728 pages
...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... | |
 | James Thomas Whittaker - 1879 - 318 pages
...its general adoption in every field of science to-day : It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing in the bushes, insects flitting among the flowers, and worms crawling upon the bosom of the great mother earth. It... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 394 pages
...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 singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth,... | |
 | Charles Anderson Read - Authors, Irish - 1880 - 394 pages
...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 singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth,... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - Evolution - 1881 - 348 pages
...Let " the Abraham of scientific men " speak first. " It is interesting," he says,1 " to contemplate an entangled 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,... | |
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It is interesting to contemplate an entangled 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... 
