 | Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams - 1912 - 380 pages
...as versified in the Temple of Nature: "Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born, and nursed in Ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute, unseen...the wood, Which bears Britannia's thunders on the flood; The Whale, unmeasured monster of the main; The lordly lion, monarch of the plain; The eagle,... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - 1925 - 492 pages
...spontaneous birth, Rise the first specks of animated earth. Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves ; First, forms...spring, And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing. In the transition from sea to dry land came the amphibious, and then the terrestrial forms of life.... | |
 | Matthew H. Nitecki, Doris V. Nitecki - 1992 - 282 pages
...progressionist. Listen, for instance, to Dr. Erasmus Darwin: Organic Life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute,...the wood, Which bears Britannia's thunders on the flood; The Whale, unmeasured monster of the main, The lordly Lion, monarch of the plain, The Eagle... | |
 | Peter J. Bowler - 1993 - 676 pages
...Nature of 1803 brought in the theory of evolution9: ORGANIC LIFE beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute,...spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing. Darwin also described the struggle for existence resulting from Nature's superfecundity, although there... | |
 | Richard Mason - 1994 - 256 pages
...process of evolution in four prophetic couplets: Organic Life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute,...spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing. Erasmus Darwin is best remembered nowadays for the two huge volumes that he published in 1794 and 1796... | |
 | Papavero, Nelson - 1995 - 282 pages
...forms minutes unseen by sphaeric glass Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as succesive generations bloom, New powers acquire and larger limbs...countless groups of vegetation spring And breathing reaims of fin and feet and wing". [Antes del comienzo del tiempo, a partir del caos flameante arremetidas,... | |
 | Penny Van Oosterzee - 1997 - 262 pages
...disguised the heretical thought in a frivolous poem. Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute,...spring And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing. Erasmus Darwin. The Temple of Nature', 1803. It was clear to Lamarck that he lived in a dynamic world,... | |
 | Ian Haywood, Zachary Leader - 1998 - 280 pages
...watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; 300 Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And...the wood, Which bears Britannia's thunders on the flood; The whale, unmeasured monster of the main, The lordly lion, monarch of the plain, The eagle... | |
 | Michael Ruse - 1999 - 366 pages
...Darwin (who liked to express his thinking in verse): Organic Life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute,...the wood, Which bears Britannia's thunders on the flood; The Whale, unmeasured monster of the main, The lordly Lion, monarch of the plain, The Eagle... | |
 | Sue Hubbell - 2000 - 260 pages
...death and six years before the birth of Charles): ORGANIC LIFE beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute,...spring. And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing. He then goes on to some specifics, including: Imperious man, who rules the bestial crowd. Of language,... | |
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Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs... 
