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Marvels of Pond-Life : Or a Year's Microscopic Recreations Among the Polyps, Infusoria, Rotifers, Water-Bears and Polyzoa, PDF eBook

Marvels of Pond-Life : Or a Year's Microscopic Recreations Among the Polyps, Infusoria, Rotifers, Water-Bears and Polyzoa PDF

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The researches of recent philosophers have shewn us that nature cannot be understood by studying the parts of animals with reference merely to their utility in the economy of the creature to which they belong.

We do, indeed, find an admirable correspondence between structures and the services they perform; but every object in creation, and every part Of it, is in harmonious relation to some grand design, and exhibits a conformity to some general mode of operation, or some general disposition and direction of forces, which secures the existence of the individual or the species, and at the same time works out the most majestic schemes.

Microscopic researches, such as are within the reach of millions, offer many of the most beautiful illustrations of these truths; and although the following pages are confined to such objects as are easily obtainable from ponds, and relate almost exclusively to the Infusoria, the Rotifers.

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