The Bible of Nature; Five Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College On the Foundation of the Late William Bross
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What a motley assemblage it is! There are plants so minute, e. g., the Bacteria, that many can hang on the point of a needle; there are the hyssops on the wall and the cedars of Lebanon. There are animals so minute, e. g., the Trypano- some of Sleeping Sickness, that we require our best microscope to see them, and there are the gigantic Saurians of by-gone ages, and the still surviving giants like the elephants and the giraffes and the great whales. The simplest organisms are single cells — inv...isible units of living matter; the more complex are vast cities of cells with millions of component units. What variety of habitat there 93 94 The Bible of Nature is; their lines are gone over all the earth. The explorers find no corner where life has not outrun them. Nansen found minute living creatures in ice pools in the Farthest North; the Natural His- tory of the Antarctic already fills several large vol- umes. On the earth and under the earth; in all the waters high and low; on the mountain tops and in the great abysses of the deep sea; free in the air and fettered in the penetralia of other creatures, life abounds.
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