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422 _ NOTICES OF BOOKS*
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The ¦• ¦ Past ' ¦ .» . And William Prese...
To sum tip our opinion of Mr . Page ' s book , we shall say that few of his iideas are controvertiblemany of them will be repeated
_, in books of advanced philosophical knowledge , while the pages on " Thmction" _-m _& y be cited as a model of eloquence .
make tenantry " As their to . function . Borrowers ; earth , in creepers , air , and , epoch runners water Simp , ever leapers le seem and , floaters to lowl have , they had and may their swimmers be varie yet d ,
adjustments still in their appearance at respective once for the grades every function perfect s they . , and had fitted to discharge by the y and . nicest the element organic , they were destined to inhabit . From these organs we also clearly perceive ,
that some families were designed to feed on vegetables , others to prey on it flesh by ; parasitic that-some attachment were formed ; while to roam many at , pike large the for Crustacea their food of , others the lower to find old
. the red , scavengers the sauroid of fishes their of respective the coal period times , , and and the lived reptiles on the of decay the ing lias , garbage became of of each the river great -bank class and as well the as mudd of y the sea life -shore of . each The geolog functional ical epoch performanc has ever e
been of . shell , within -fish— its littoral own , limits and , deep a comp -sea lete , sedentary and independent and _vagrant system , phytop . , A hagous world and carnivorous—existed in the earliest waters . The gigantic sauroid fishes
reptiles saurs of the , their ; palaeozoic the estuarin secondary w e ere teleosaurs reptiles the function and , in steneosaurs their al representatives marine , their ichth terrestrial yosaurs of the and hy secondary _lasosaurs
plesioand and dol inegalosaurs phins , the , crocodiles and their aerial and gavials pterosaurs , the , elep were hants respectivel and tigers y the , the whales bats typ arid e the of life birds analogous , of their functions period . have At every been stage unerring of time ldischarged , and under .. Herbi every
vorousinsectivorous , carnivorousand omnivorousare y attributes alike of the fish , , the reptile , , the bird , and , the mammal ; , walkers , swimmers , and .
fliers , with powers more or less restricted , have ever occurred within the same "In great the classes interdependencies . of existence demand has _^ ever pressed on
been supply commensur , decay trodden ate with closel enjoyment y in the ; wake An ideal of Cosmos reproduction of painles , and s beatitude suffering is a dream and delusion . Pain and death are stamped on the earliest records
and of life the . weak From have the beg ever inning succumbed the flesh to -eater the , has strong preyedron , even as the they plant do -eater now . was The inaugurated struggle for ( existence by the enjoyment commenced * of with life . its Constructed gift ; and the as rei Nature gn of is _, death , this and of her lanand the bwhich the
and seem balance s part of vitality . parcel , is maintained p , . The larger means and y more abundant equi p poise lantcomparativel comprehend feeders , ever y . it pressin smaller is onl g on b and the som scantier means e such of flesh compensatory subsistence -eaters ; , * and system are , held , so that far in check the as man greatest by can the
as happ life iness is to of , , the ., the inevitable greatest y y numbers laws of ia cap material . be maint world ained , it . must Besides , for , subjected its own '
surrounded comfort , learn ; and to so . accommodate , under this vie itself w , the to accident the ciroumstances and reminiscence by which of pain it is become an institution for the animalV own benefit and protection . What
force pleases which will fee i destroys ' pursued is , , wh for at the pains most will part be avoided , merciftdl ; while y ¦ accompanied the excess b of y all insen but sibility a system _^ and of unconsciousness re-and . compensation . Life , fike the world and m : it alfcqur inhabits reasonings , is after
. agency ; tempers on the que the stion win of d Pain to the and shorn Death lamb we ' should may have eyer so remember 'ordained that , that .. * He to -who the
merel various y comparative grades . of organisati , and that their suffe i ring ntensi and ty shoul the terr d be , felt of de onl y whe should re pai n
422 _ Notices Of Books*
422 _ NOTICES OF BOOKS *
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/62/
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