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WHEN we remember either the general appearance or the way in which a cabbage or a turnip appears to exist, it does not seem possible to call them active. It is difficult to imagine anything less lively than an ordinary vegetable. They seem to us the very model of dullness, stupidity, and slowness; they cannot move even from one field to the next; they are "fast rooted in the soil"; "they languidly adjust their vapid vegetable loves" like Tennyson's Oak. In fact one usually speaks of vegetating when anybody is living a particularly dull, unexciting kind of life in one particular place. And it even seems as if the books, which are supposed to give us the best information about the study of pla...
Hardcover reprint of the original 1915 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9". No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. for quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Elliot, G. F. Scott (George Francis Scott). Prehistoric Man and His Story; A Sketch of the History of Mankind from the Earliest Times. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Elliot, G. F. Scott (George Francis Scott). Prehistoric Man and His Story; A Sketch of the History of Mankind from the Earliest Times, . London: Seeley, Service, 1915. Subject: Prehistoric Peoples
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Reproduction of the original: The Romance of Plant Life by Elliot G.F Scott