 It is interesting to contemplate a tangled 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...  What is Darwinism? - Page 54by Charles Hodge - 1874 - 178 lehteFull view - About this book
 | 1912 - 538 lehte
...in the alarmist (Malthusian) Essay. "It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes,...flitting about. and with worms crawling through -the deep earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other,... | |
 | Liberty Hyde Bailey - 1905 - 328 lehte
...you to have Darwin's view, as expressed in the concluding paragraph of his "Origin of Species": " It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed...forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws,... | |
 | 1906 - 796 lehte
...with some sentences that should be quoted, for they outline clearly the doctrine of the whole book. It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed...on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms,... | |
 | 1906 - 416 lehte
...clearly the doctrine of the whole book. It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed wij:h many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms,... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - 328 lehte
...by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. "It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed...forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. There is grandeur... | |
 | A.C. SEWARD - 1909 - 800 lehte
...Darwin has bequeathed to us. It is summed up in the concluding paragraph of the Origin* : — " It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed...forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us." 1 Life and... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1909 - 584 lehte
...good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed...forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws,... | |
 | Karl Alois Kneller - 1911 - 424 lehte
...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...various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling 1 On the Age of the Sun's Heat. Popular Lectures and Discourses I 198. * Ib. 314. through the damp... | |
 | Karl Alois Kneller - 1911 - 424 lehte
...On the Age o,f the Sun's Heat. Popular Lectures and Discourses I 198. ! Ib. 314. WILLIAM THOMSON. 35 through the damp earth, and to reflect that these...constructed forms, so different from each other, and depending on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.' There... | |
 | Alfred Fairhurst - 1913 - 502 lehte
...Origin of Species" contains a general summary of Darwin's theory. " It is interesting to comtemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds,...elaborately constructed forms, so different from each, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.... | |
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