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... beings . As a more particular illustration of the meaning of a common - sense answer , take the following passage from Cicero : As soon as the animal is born , if it be one that is to be nourished by milk , almost all the Wiculty library.
... beings . As a more particular illustration of the meaning of a common - sense answer , take the following passage from Cicero : As soon as the animal is born , if it be one that is to be nourished by milk , almost all the Wiculty library.
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... in the year 1840 . In the last pages of the Researches is an interesting passage recommending to young naturalists a journey in distant countries . After suggesting some reasons for un- dertaking 1 CHAP SPECIES AS TREATED BY MR DARWIN.
... in the year 1840 . In the last pages of the Researches is an interesting passage recommending to young naturalists a journey in distant countries . After suggesting some reasons for un- dertaking 1 CHAP SPECIES AS TREATED BY MR DARWIN.
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... passages of Buffon's Natural History , and one of these will be found in the note . The whole subject is lucidly stated in Müller's Elements of Physiology . ‡ We are compelled , for brevity's sake , to refer the reader to the work ...
... passages of Buffon's Natural History , and one of these will be found in the note . The whole subject is lucidly stated in Müller's Elements of Physiology . ‡ We are compelled , for brevity's sake , to refer the reader to the work ...
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... passage specially in reference to the vegetable kingdom , in his Principles of Geology , third edition ( ii . 390 ) . The celebrated John Hunter has observed that the true distinction of species must ultimately be gathered from their ...
... passage specially in reference to the vegetable kingdom , in his Principles of Geology , third edition ( ii . 390 ) . The celebrated John Hunter has observed that the true distinction of species must ultimately be gathered from their ...
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... one volume has appeared , it is to be presumed that other opinions will be expressed , and that the passage just quoted will be cancelled . As Sir C. Lyell has , in his Antiquity of SPECIES AS DEFINED BY NATURALISTS . 21 III.
... one volume has appeared , it is to be presumed that other opinions will be expressed , and that the passage just quoted will be cancelled . As Sir C. Lyell has , in his Antiquity of SPECIES AS DEFINED BY NATURALISTS . 21 III.
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Page 20 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 70 - Under changed conditions of life, it is at least possible that slight modifications of instinct might be profitable to a species; and if it can be shown that instincts do vary ever so little, then I can see no difficulty in natural selection preserving and continually accumulating variations of instinct to any extent that was profitable. It is thus, as I believe, that all the most complex and wonderful instincts have originated.
Page 20 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 348 - Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit. to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of life, which may be effected in the long course of time by nature's power of selection.
Page 7 - In short, we shall have to treat species in the same manner as those naturalists treat genera, who admit that genera are merely artificial combinations made for convenience. This may not be a cheering prospect ; but we shall at least be freed from the vain search for the undiscovered and undiscoverable essence of the term species.
Page 232 - the recognition of an ideal Exemplar for the Vertebrated Animals proves that the Knowledge of such a being as Man must have existed before Man appeared. For the Divine mind which planned the Archetype also foreknew all its modifications. The Archetypal idea was manifested in the flesh, under divers modifications, upon this planet, long prior to the existence of those animal species that actually exemplify it.
Page 61 - The similar framework of bones in the hand of a man, wing of a bat, fin of the porpoise, and leg of the horse, — the same number of vertebrae forming the neck of the giraffe and of the elephant, — and innumerable other such facts, at once explain themselves on the theory of descent with slow and slight successive modifications.
Page 1 - These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers.
Page 136 - I may be allowed to personify the natural preservation or survival of the fittest, cares nothing for appearances, except in so far as they are useful to any being. She can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life. Man selects only for his own good : Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
Page 170 - Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably far longer than, the whole interval from the Silurian age to the present day; and that during these vast, yet quite unknown, periods of time, the world swarmed with living creatures.