Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation, Том 2J. Murray, 1832 |
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... regards as confirmatory of the doctrine , and which he has derived partly from the works of his predecessors , and in part from original investigations . We shall consider his proofs and inferences in the order in which they appear to ...
... regards as confirmatory of the doctrine , and which he has derived partly from the works of his predecessors , and in part from original investigations . We shall consider his proofs and inferences in the order in which they appear to ...
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... regard as true species , to be varieties . - The greater the abundance of natural objects assembled together , the more do we discover proofs that everything passes by insensible shades into something else ; that even the more ...
... regard as true species , to be varieties . - The greater the abundance of natural objects assembled together , the more do we discover proofs that everything passes by insensible shades into something else ; that even the more ...
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... regard it as a particular spe- ciest . The unfavourable climate in this case , deficiency of nourishment , exposure to the winds , and other causes , give rise to a stunted and dwarfish race , with some organs more developed than others ...
... regard it as a particular spe- ciest . The unfavourable climate in this case , deficiency of nourishment , exposure to the winds , and other causes , give rise to a stunted and dwarfish race , with some organs more developed than others ...
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... regard to a great quantity of animals which domesticity has changed ' or considerably modified * ? ' Our domestic fowls and pigeons are unlike any wild birds . Our domestic ducks and geese have lost the faculty of raising themselves ...
... regard to a great quantity of animals which domesticity has changed ' or considerably modified * ? ' Our domestic fowls and pigeons are unlike any wild birds . Our domestic ducks and geese have lost the faculty of raising themselves ...
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... regard to the constancy of species , the amount of transform- ation which they are capable of undergoing , may seem to resolve itself into a mere question of the quantity of time assigned to the past duration of animate existence ...
... regard to the constancy of species , the amount of transform- ation which they are capable of undergoing , may seem to resolve itself into a mere question of the quantity of time assigned to the past duration of animate existence ...
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Стр. 135 - In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs in narrow room Throng numberless...
Стр. 228 - Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported matter which has been washed away and thrown down by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas.
Стр. 212 - Thus, in Mar forest, in Aberdeenshire, large trunks of Scotch fir, which had fallen from age and decay, were soon immured in peat, formed partly out of their perishing leaves and branches, and in part from the growth of other plants. We...
Стр. 134 - ... life, in the creation of which nature has been so prodigal. A scanty number of minute individuals, only to be detected by careful research, and often not detectable at all, are ready, in a few days or weeks, to give birth to myriads, which may repress or remove the nuisances referred to. But no sooner has the commission been executed, than the gigantic power becomes dormant...
Стр. 56 - If, therefore, the relative fecundity or hardiness of hybrids be in the least degree inferior, they cannot maintain their footing for many generations, even if they were ever produced beyond one generation in a wild state. In the universal struggle for existence, the right of the strongest eventually prevails; and the strength and durability of a race depends mainly on its prolificness, in which hybrids are acknowledged to be deficient.
Стр. 121 - Were the whole of mankind now cut off, with the exception of one family, inhabiting the old or new continent, or Australia, or even some coral islet of the Pacific, we...
Стр. 24 - We must suppose that when the author of nature creates an animal or a plant, all the possible circumstances in which its descendants are destined to live are foreseen, and that an organization is conferred upon it which will enable the species to perpetuate itself, and survive under all the varying circumstances to which it must be inevitably exposed.
Стр. 213 - Continent, the largest trees are found in those peat-mosses which lie in the least elevated regions, and that the trees are proportionally smaller in those which lie at higher levels ; from which fact De Luc and Walker have both inferred, that the trees grew on the spot, for they would naturally attain a greater size in lower and warmer levels. The leaves also, and fruits of each species, are continually found immersed in the moss along with the parent trees ; as, for example, the leaves and acorns...
Стр. 63 - If you examine the brain of the mammalia, says M. Serres, at an early stage of uterine life, you perceive the cerebral hemispheres consolidated, as in fish, in two vesicles, isolated one from the other ; at a later period, you see them affect the configuration of the cerebral hemispheres of reptiles ; still later again, they present you with the forms of those of birds ; finally, they acquire, at the era of birth, and sometimes later, the permanent forms which the adult mammalia present.