...Approaching parts with quick embrace combines, Swells into spheres, and lengthens into lines. Last, as fine goads the gluten-threads excite, Cords grapple cords,...spontaneous birth Rise the first specks of animated earth j From Nature's womb the plant or insect swims, And buds or breathes, with microscopic limbs. " In...

...Approaching parts with quick embrace combines, Swells into spheres, and lengthens into lines. Last, as fine goads the gluten-threads excite, Cords grapple cords,...webs with webs unite ; And quick CONTRACTION with etherial dame, Lights into hfe the fibre-woven frame. IK-nce, without parent, by spontaneous birth,...

...combines', « Swells into spheres, and lengthens into lines. " Last, as fine goads the glutton threads excite, " Cords grapple cords and webs with webs unite...contraction with ethereal flame " Lights into life the fibre woven frame. " Hence without parent by spontaneous birth " Rise the first specks of animated...

...Swells into fpheres, and lengthens into lines. Laft, as fine goads the gluten-threads excite, Ccrds grapple cords, and webs with 'webs unite; And quick...CONTRACTION with ethereal flame Lights into life the fibre- woven frame. — Particular attraction, or chemical affinity, mud likewife occupy the fpaces...

...for them' — that ' ffom or. ganic particles accumulated, originate animal appetencies'— that ' Hence without parent, by spontaneous birth, Rise the first specks of animated earth.' And that this earthy matter of spontaneous animation has been aggregated into all the shapes and sizes...

...for them' — that ' from or. ranic particles accumulated, originate animal appetencies' — (hat ' Hence without parent, by spontaneous birth, Rise the first specks of animated earth.1 , , And that this earthy matter of spontaneous animation has been aggre» gated into all the...

...doctrine in his physiological principles to an extent that cannot be supported. Tempi, of Nat. i. 147. Hence, without parent, by spontaneous birth, Rise...plant or insect swims, And buds or breathes, with microscopio limbs. " Ai iatotle," observes Mr. Good, in his note on the atore passage from Lucretius,...

...dissolution springs, And gives to matter its eccentric wings, « * * * * t * Hence wit/tout patent, by spontaneous birth, Rise the first specks, of animated...swims, And buds, or breathes, with microscopic limbs. In earth, sea, air, around, below, above, Lite's subtle woof, in nature's loom is wove. ORGANIC LITE,...

...iv. 802. Dr. Darwin has also carried the idea of equivocal generation to a most fanciful extent — Hence, without parent, by spontaneous birth Rise the...swims, And buds or breathes, with microscopic limbs. TEMPLE OF NATURE, 1. 247. In the additional notes to this poem the Doctor gravely remarks — " it...

...then go back still further we arrive necessarily at the hypothesis of spontaneous production : — " Hence without parent by spontaneous birth Rise the first specks of animated earth." The examples which he adduces as probable occurrences of spontaneous generation at the present day,...