The Midland Naturalist: Journal of the Midland Union of Natural History Societies with which is Incorporated the Entire Transactions of the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society, Bände 7-8D. Bogue., 1884 |
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Seite 305 - The advance from the simple to the complex, through a process of successive differentiations, is seen alike in the earliest changes of the Universe to which we can reason our way back, and in the earliest changes which we can inductively establish; it is seen in the geologic and climatic evolution of the Earth, and of every single organism on its surface; it is seen in the evolution of Humanity, whether contemplated in the civilized individual, or in the...
Seite 288 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Seite 17 - Ichneumonida; feeding within the live bodies of their prey, cats playing with mice, otters and cormorants with living fish, not as instincts specially given by the Creator, but as very small parts of one general law leading to the advancement of all organic bodies — Multiply, Vary, let the strongest Live and the weakest Die.
Seite 230 - MP, was accorded amid loud cheers to Mr. Gladstone. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman, proposed by Sir George Macpherson Grant, Bart, MP VL SPEECH IN THE WAVERLEY MARKET, EDINBURGH.
Seite 305 - Humanity, whether contemplated in the civilized individual, or in the aggregation of races; it is seen in the evolution of Society in respect alike of its political, its religious, and its economical organization; and it is seen in the evolution of all those endless concrete and abstract products of human activity which constitute the environment of our daily life. From the remotest past which Science can fathom, up to the novelties of yesterday, that in which Progress essentially consists, is the...
Seite 137 - Life is a series of definite and successive changes, both of structure and composition, which take place within an individual without destroying its identity.
Seite 14 - A noteworthy fact is the absence in some countries of indigenous cultivated plants. For instance, we have none from the arctic or antarctic regions, where, it is true, the floras consist of but few species. The United States, in spite of their vast territory, which will soon support hundreds of millions of inhabitants, only yields, as nutritious plants worth cultivating, the Jerusalem artichoke and the gourds.
Seite 13 - The origin, the first home of the plants most useful to man, and which have accompanied him from the remotest epochs, is a secret as impenetrable as the dwelling of all our domestic animals. . . We do not know what region produced spontaneously wheat, barley, oats, and rye. The plants which constitute the natural riches of all the inhabitants of the tropics — the banana, the papaw, the manioc, and maize, have never been found in a wild state.
Seite 285 - Principles, §§ 76, 141,) that whatever amount of power an organism expends in any shape, is the correlate and equivalent of a power that was taken into it from without.
Seite 81 - America are all clothed with some kind of summer vegetation ; 1 and it is only where there are lofty mountains or plateaus — as in Greenland, Spitzbergen, and Grinnell's Land — that glaciers, accompanied by perpetual snow, cover the country, and descend in places to the level of the sea.