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... animals and allied plants reveal , according to Mr. Dar- win , their community of descent , " for the embryo is the animal in its less modified form . " As it develops , its parts become specialized by modification , and thence it is ...
... animals and allied plants reveal , according to Mr. Dar- win , their community of descent , " for the embryo is the animal in its less modified form . " As it develops , its parts become specialized by modification , and thence it is ...
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... animals , he was again brought forth , this time in what is called the lower silu- rian period , and as a vertebrate fish . Ages after this he was a reptile in a world of reptiles , of strange forms and huge pro- portions ; sometimes an ...
... animals , he was again brought forth , this time in what is called the lower silu- rian period , and as a vertebrate fish . Ages after this he was a reptile in a world of reptiles , of strange forms and huge pro- portions ; sometimes an ...
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... animal , pos- sessed of great intelligence and deep affections , passionately fond of its young , and altogether a ... animal's instincts and habits . The volume is full of information upon the subject , and is evidently the work of a ...
... animal , pos- sessed of great intelligence and deep affections , passionately fond of its young , and altogether a ... animal's instincts and habits . The volume is full of information upon the subject , and is evidently the work of a ...
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... animals have been frightened by them . There are accounts of some who came with solemn warning and with a noble ... animal organism . One will rack every fibre of the body with convulsive tetanus , another will calm the agonized nerves ...
... animals have been frightened by them . There are accounts of some who came with solemn warning and with a noble ... animal organism . One will rack every fibre of the body with convulsive tetanus , another will calm the agonized nerves ...
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... animal introduced into their children's blood . The public should also remember that the occa- sional occurrence of ... animals , using the resulting vesicles as a fresh The other possible cause of increasing small - pox suggested above ...
... animal introduced into their children's blood . The public should also remember that the occa- sional occurrence of ... animals , using the resulting vesicles as a fresh The other possible cause of increasing small - pox suggested above ...
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Page 1 - I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
Page 7 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 6 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by Reproduction ; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse...
Page 7 - Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide.
Page 14 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground...
Page 29 - Seeva laid wait for me. I came suddenly upon Isis and Osiris : I had done a deed, they said, which the ibis and the crocodile trembled at.
Page 7 - It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of the attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, "as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.
Page 29 - Deeper than ever plummet sounded," I lay inactive. Then, like a chorus, the passion deepened. Some greater interest was at stake ; some mightier cause than ever yet the sword had pleaded, or trumpet had proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms ; hurryings to and fro ; trepidations of innumerable fugitives.
Page 29 - ... heartbreaking partings, and then — everlasting farewells! and, with a sigh such as the caves of hell sighed when the incestuous mother uttered the abhorred name of Death, the sound was reverberated — everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated — everlasting farewells! And I awoke in struggles, and cried aloud, "I will sleep no more!
Page 11 - Their Superiority in the ART of LANDSCAPE PAINTING to all the Ancient Masters, proved by examples of the True, the Beautiful, and the Intellectual, from the Works of Modern Artists, especially from those of JM Turner, Esq., RA By a GRADUATE of OXFORD.