The Preparation of the Earth for the Intellectual Races a Lecture Delivered At
The Preparation of the Earth for the Intellectual Races a Lecture Delivered At
Charles Frederick Winslow
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But, immediately preceding the ad- vent of the human family, they were called into being; and on the hill-sides and in the valleys, in the open plains and seques- tered forests, they unfold their smiling pe- tals, and hold out their varied fruitage to win the admiration, impart the most refined pleasure, and exalt the immaterial nature of man. Previous to this, the surface of the earth had not been so elaborated by the intermixture of organic remains, or so diver- sified in the elevation and te...mperature of LECTURE. 45 its mountains and lowlands, as to fit it for the multiform varieties of the vegetable family. Now we find it prepared, both in climate and soil, to nourish not only the imperfect types of the earlier ages, but the most complicated ligneous structures which adorn the colder zones. So various is the distribution of land and water, of moun- tain ranges, broad plains, and open or deep valleys, of heat and cold, and of the predominant elements derived from the different geological disintegrations and or- ganic deposits, that the earth has at last become capable of sustaining an endless variety of vegetable forms.
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