 | R. D. Keynes - 2003 - 472 Seiten
...the shoreless earth; Nurs'd by warm sun-beams in primeval caves Organic Life began beneath the waves. Hence without parent by spontaneous birth Rise the...swims, And buds or breathes, with microscopic limbs. ORGANIC LIFE beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves First forms minute,... | |
 | Noah Heringman - 2004 - 340 Seiten
...history and its physiology begin with an account of spontaneous generation, in a similar vein (1.247-50): Hence without parent by spontaneous birth Rise the...swims, And buds or breathes, with microscopic limbs. Such subject matter clearly tests the limits of poetry, and a great deal spills over into the "philosophical... | |
 | Michael Ruse - 2006 - 286 Seiten
...shoreless earth; Nursed by warm sun-beams in primeval caves Organic life began beneath the waves... . Hence without parent by spontaneous birth, Rise the first specks of animated earth. (Darwin 1803) But even as they appeared on the scene, the evolutionists were starting to go against... | |
 | Benjamin Wiker, Jonathan Witt - 2006 - 256 Seiten
...shoreless earth; Nursed by warm sun-beams in primeval caves Organic life began beneath the waves. . . . Hence without parent by spontaneous birth, Rise the first specks of animated earth." 18Lucretius's work was an "established classic" both in the sense of being widely read and in the sense... | |
 | David Amigoni - 2007 - 12 Seiten
...Nature (1803): Nurs'd by warm sun-beams in primeval caves Organic life began beneath the waves . . . I4 Hence without parent by spontaneous birth Rise the...swims, And buds or breathes with microscopic limbs . . . (i, 11. 247—50) From embryon births her changeful forms improve, Grow, as they live, and strengthen... | |
 | Keith Stewart Thomson - 2007 - 344 Seiten
...shoreless earth, Nurs'd by warm sun-beams in primeval caves, Organic life began beneath the waves ... Hence without parent by spontaneous birth Rise the first specks of animated earth. 28 'Without parent'! No amount of argument could make that idea compatible with 'God the father' and... | |
 | Christa Knellwolf King, Jane R. Goodall - 2008 - 252 Seiten
...gallows, Erasmus Darwin's imaginings were all light and life: And quick contraction with ethereal flame Lights into life the fibre-woven frame Hence without...spontaneous birth Rise the first specks of animated earth.19 The most notorious experiments in spontaneous generation were those conducted by Andrew Crosse... | |
 | Edward W. Badger, William Hillhouse - 1878 - 756 Seiten
...heterogenesis, and argues for it at length in the notes to the " Temple of Nature," as well as elsewhere — Hence without parent by spontaneous birth, Rise the first specks of animated earth. He further argues for a formation by apposition, and against the emboitement of germs, and supposes... | |
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Hence without parent by spontaneous birth " Rise the first specks of animated earth ; " From nature's womb the plant or insect swims, " And buds or breathes with microscopic limbs. 
