The World of Life: A Manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and Ultimate PurposeChapman and Hall, 1910 - 408 sider |
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The World of Life: A Manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and ... Alfred Russel Wallace Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1911 |
The World of Life: A Manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and ... Alfred Russel Wallace Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1916 |
The World of Life: A Manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and ... Alfred Russel Wallace Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1910 |
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abundant adapted allied Ammonite animals appear Arctic Australia B. M. Guide barbules beauty birds body botanical botanists Brazil butterflies carbon cause cell changes chapter chemical chromatin climate colour complex considerable continuous Cretaceous Cyperacea Darwin distinct diversity earth elements enormous Eocene equal Europe evolution existence extinct fact feathers flora flowering plants forces forest forms genera geological give growth higher increase infinite insects island Kambangan Island known land large number larger larvæ Lepidoptera less living Malay Peninsula Mammalia mammals marsupials matter Mesozoic Miocene mountain Myrtacea natural selection nearly North America number of species organic organised peculiar perhaps period phenomena Pleistocene probably produced Professor protoplasm purpose regions remarkable reptiles seems shown skeleton skull South square miles structure substance surface teeth temperate Tertiary trees tropical tusks universe Upper variation varied variety various vast vegetation Weismann's whole wings
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Side vi - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Side 367 - ... of things would be worse than the first. For the carnivores, however brutal and sanguinary, have only done that which, if there is any evidence of contrivance in the world, they were expressly constructed to do. Moreover, carnivores and herbivores alike have been subject to all the miseries incidental to old age, disease, and over-multiplication, and both might well put in a claim for " compensation
Side 253 - ... this or that set of muscles, would entail incapacity, failure of speed, and loss of life. Moreover the nerves supplying the various sets of muscles would have to be proportionately changed ; as well as the central nervous tracts from which they issued. Can we suppose that all these appropriate changes, too, would be step by step simultaneously made by fortunate spontaneous variations, occurring along with all the other fortunate spontaneous variations ? Considering how immense must be the number...
Side 9 - ... be said to be the result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it. And if so, it must be true, in the same sense and to the same extent, that the thoughts to which I am now giving utterance, and your thoughts regarding them, are the expression of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other vital phenomena.
Side 9 - In itself it is of little moment whether we express the phenomena of matter in terms of spirit, or the phenomena of spirit in terms of matter: matter may be regarded as a form of thought, thought may be regarded as a property of matter; each statement has a certain relative truth. But with a view to the progress of science, the materialistic terminology is in every way to be preferred.
Side 115 - ... of the trees the view through the woods presented a perpetual tumult of crowding and fluttering multitudes of pigeons, their wings roaring like thunder, mingled with the frequent crash of falling timber, for now the axe-men were at work cutting down those trees that seemed to be most crowded with...
Side 188 - In this earliest known varied life we find no evidence of its having lived near the beginning of the zoological series. In a broad sense, compared with what must have gone before, both biologically and physically, all the phenomena connected with this old period seem, to my mind, to be of quite a recent description ; and the climates of seas ami lands were of the very same kind as those the world enjoys at the present day.
Side 114 - ... a single vegetable made its appearance. When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants from considerable distances visit them in the night, with guns, clubs, long poles, pots of sulphur, and various other engines of destruction. In a few hours they fill many sacks and load their horses with them. By the Indians a Pigeon roost, or breeding place, is considered an important source of national profit and dependence for that season; and all their active ingenuity is exercised on the occasion.
Side 305 - While man has only tilled a few level plains, a few great river valleys, a few peninsular mountain slopes, leaving the vast mass of earth untouched by his hand, the insect has spread himself over every land in a thousand shapes, and has made the whole flowering creation subservient to his daily wants. His buttercup, his dandelion, and his meadow-sweet grow thick in every English field. His thyme clothes the hillside; his heather purples the bleak gray moorland.
Side 115 - Several of them informed me, that the noise in the woods was so great as to terrify their horses, and that it was difficult for one person to hear another speak, without bawling in his ear. The ground was strewed with broken limbs of trees, eggs, and young Squab Pigeons, which had been precipitated from above, and on which herds of hogs were fattening. Hawks, Buzzards, and Eagles, were sailing about in great numbers, and seizing the Squabs from their...
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