Typical Forms and Special Ends in CreationConstable, 1857 - 539 էջ |
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according adaptation admitted angle animal appear appendages archetype arrangement axis beauty birds body bones branches buds called calyx carbonic acid cell centre character colours connexion constituted corolla correspondence Crustacea dicotyledons discover Divine earth elements enable epochs evident example existence external faculty final cause fishes fitted flabellum flower function habits hæmal hæmal arch harmony heat higher homology homotypes human insects larvæ leaf limbs mandibles matter maxillæ means ment mind modifications mollusca monocotyledons muscles nature nervous neural neural arch neural spine notice objects observe organs ovum peculiar petals plants present principle produced Professor Owen purple red-purple regard relation remarkable segments sepals shell Silurian skeleton special ends species spine spiral stamens stars stem structure surface teeth teleology things tion traces truth typical vegetable veins vertebral column vertebrata vertebrate whole yellow
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Էջ 461 - No man hath seen God at any time ; the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Էջ 518 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Էջ 31 - All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Էջ 25 - ANALOGUE." — A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal. " HOMOLOGUE." — The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function f.
Էջ 341 - The link by which they are connected is of a higher and immaterial nature ; and their connection is to be sought in the view of the Creator himself, whose aim, in forming the earth, in allowing it to undergo the successive changes which Geology has pointed out, and in creating successively all the different types of animals which have passed away, was to introduce Man upon the surface of our globe. Man is the end towards which all the animal creation has tended, from the first appearance of the first...
Էջ 133 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Էջ 341 - that there is a manifest progress in the succession of beings on the surface of the earth. This progress consists in an increasing similarity to the living fauna, and among the vertebrates, especially in their increasing resemblance to man.
Էջ 490 - Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought ; entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Էջ 456 - Those recollected hours that have the charm Of visionary things, those lovely forms And sweet sensations that throw back our life, And almost make remotest infancy A visible scene, on which the sun is shining?
Էջ 31 - What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.