Über Klima und Acclimatisation nach ethnischen Gesichtspuncten

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Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, 1889 - Počet stran: 241
 

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Strana 210 - Quelque intérêt que nous ayons à nous connaître nous-mêmes, je ne sais si nous ne connaissons pas mieux tout ce qui n'est pas nous. Pourvus par la nature d'organes uniquement destinés à notre conservation, nous ne les employons qu'à recevoir les impressions étrangères : nous ne cherchons qu'à nous répandre au dehors, et à exister hors de nous. Trop occupés à multiplier...
Strana 232 - As the late Edward Forbes often insisted, there is a striking parallelism in the laws of life throughout time and space ; the laws governing the succession of forms in past times being nearly the same with those governing at the present time the differences in different areas.
Strana 177 - The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows.
Strana 64 - Ces nations me semblent donq ainsi barbares, pour avoir receu fort peu de façon de l'esprit humain, et estre encore fort voisines de leur naifveté originelle. Les loix naturelles leur commandent encores, fort peu abastardies par les nostres...
Strana 210 - Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos gigantium humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre non utique proprii visus acumine aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvehimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea.
Strana 38 - ... one spot only, may explain in a satisfactory manner one part of this phenomenon; for we may assume that a lofty chain of mountains opposed a powerful barrier to migration, and that the mountains were more ancient than the introduction of these particular quadrupeds and birds into the planet. But the limitation of peculiar generic types to certain geographical areas, now observed in so many parts of the globe, points to some other and higher law governing the creation of species itself, which...
Strana 37 - Pinus rigida ; instead ot the European larch, the hacmatac, &c. ; and farther south the differences are still more striking. In the temperate zone proper, the oaks, the beeches, the birches, the hornbeams, the hophornbeams, the chestnuts, the buttonwoods, the elms, the linden, the maples, and the walnuts, are represented in each continent by peculiar species differing more or less. Peculiar forms make, here and there, their appearance, such as the gum-trees, the tulip-trees, the magnolias. The evergreens...
Strana 180 - Illud in his quoque te rebus cognoscere avemus, corpora cum deorsum rectum per inane feruntur ponderibus propriis, incerto tempore ferme incertisque locis spatio depellere paulum, 220 tantum quod momen mutatum dicere possis.
Strana 41 - The climate of a country, or that peculiar state of the atmosphere in regard to heat and moisture which prevails in any given place, and which directly affects the growth of plants and animals, is determined by the following causes : ist.
Strana 232 - Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.

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