 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
 | Junius Henderson - 1925 - 240 lehte
...earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth !" . >..-•&. -~ The Reign of Law "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." CHARLES DARWIN.... | |
 | John Langdon-Davies - 1925 - 262 lehte
...interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with plants of many kinds, with birds singing in the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and...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,... | |
 | Woodbridge Riley - 1926 - 376 lehte
...defender. Nothing could be more calmly convincing than this final passage in the 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,... | |
 | Leonard Darwin - 1926 - 564 lehte
...has certainly had more effect than any other in spreading a belief in the animal origin of man : It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed...worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect on these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other... | |
 | Ursula Lord - 1998 - 382 lehte
...on the perception of similarity in the dissimilar, and emerge from the world of nature itself: "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 ... Thus, from... | |
 | Robert Kanigel - 1998 - 266 lehte
...nowhere is it more evident than in the book's concluding paragraphs: "It is interesting," writes Darwin, "to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many...forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws. Thus, from the war of nature,... | |
 | Malcolm Potts, Roger Short - 1999 - 372 lehte
...Darwin's grand vision Darwin closes The Origin of Species with a lyrical description of evolution: 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,... | |
 | Malcolm Potts, Roger Short - 1999 - 372 lehte
...Darwin's grand vision Darwin closes The Origin of Species with a lyrical description of evolution: It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed...the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and ivith worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms,... | |
 | David R. Harper, Andrea S. Meyer - 1999 - 278 lehte
...ON THE ORIGIN OF VIROSES It is interesting to contem late an entangled bank, clothed with many lants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with...flitting about, and with worms crawling through the dam earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and... | |
 | David F. Armstrong - 2002 - 204 lehte
..."tangled bank" may be more apropos: It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with maiiv plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes,...various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling in the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, io different from each... | |
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