...every animal and vegetable was at rirst aquatic. " Organic Life beneath the shoreless waves "Was bom and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute,...spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing. " Thus the tall oak, the giant of the wood, Which bears Britannia's thunders on the Hood ; The whale,...

...watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume ; 300 Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing. fetus becornes thus oxygenated from the passing stream of the maternal arterial blood ; exactly as...

...retain, digest, secrete, eject. " Organic! life beneath the shoreless waves cant. 1. 1. 255, " Was botn and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves ; " First forms...And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing." ..Much comment on this theory of " organic mud" is unnecessary. It contains in its muddy mass the seeds...

...&e. ; and not a vital habit of the body, as some philosophers maintained. The mind is considered as Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing. Canto. 1. b. 295. &c. If Lucretius had been a chemist, vre should probably have found many kindred...

...earth, sea, air, around, below, above, Lite's subtle woof, in nature's loom is wove. ORGANIC LITE, beneath the shoreless waves, Was born, and nurs'd,...And breathing realms, of fin, and feet, and wing." Although Doctor Darwin was a close observer of nature, a man of great scientific acquirements, a great...

...spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass ; These, as successive generations bloom, 299 New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume ; Whence...spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing. " Thus the tall oak, the giant of the wood, Which bears Britannia's thunders on the flood; The whale,...

...These, as successive generations bloom. New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume, Whence counties' groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing." " Hence, ere Vitality, as time revolves. Leaves the cold on,'an, or the mass dissolves, The reproductions...

...spheric glasa, Move on the mud or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom. Now powers acquire, and larger limbs assume, Whence countless...groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fln, and feet, and wing." In a note combating the " prejudices " against the doctrine of spontaneous...

...attention. A brief extract is significant. " Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nursed in ocean's pearly caves. First forms minute, unseen...spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing.1' Here is evolution, differentiation, origin of species — the discovery and the record in glowing...

...sea : — " Organic life beneath the Bhoreless waves Was born, and nurs'd in ocean's pearly cares ; First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move...And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing." Iu the continuation of these verses (lines 295-302) the author recalls to mind that the higher animals,...