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... things which might occu- A B py your attention , but dis- regard them now to watch . that animalcule which you observe swimming about . What is it ? It is one of the largest of the Infusoria , and is named Opalina . When I call this an ...
... things which might occu- A B py your attention , but dis- regard them now to watch . that animalcule which you observe swimming about . What is it ? It is one of the largest of the Infusoria , and is named Opalina . When I call this an ...
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... thing ; no , not sans every thing , for , as we look attentively , we see certain currents pro- duced in the liquid , and , on applying a higher mag- nifying power , we detect how these currents are produced . All over the surface of ...
... thing ; no , not sans every thing , for , as we look attentively , we see certain currents pro- duced in the liquid , and , on applying a higher mag- nifying power , we detect how these currents are produced . All over the surface of ...
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... things , " and is itself a little colony of life . Nature is eco- nomic as well as prodigal of space . She fills the il- limitable heavens with planetary and starry grand- eurs , and the tiny atoms moving over the crust of earth she ...
... things , " and is itself a little colony of life . Nature is eco- nomic as well as prodigal of space . She fills the il- limitable heavens with planetary and starry grand- eurs , and the tiny atoms moving over the crust of earth she ...
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... forms . Nor can any thing be more unwise than the attempt to limit the sphere * VON SIEBOLD : Ueber Band - und - Blasenwürmer . Translated by HUXLEY . of human inquiry , especially by applying the test of 36 STUDIES IN ANIMAL LIFE .
... forms . Nor can any thing be more unwise than the attempt to limit the sphere * VON SIEBOLD : Ueber Band - und - Blasenwürmer . Translated by HUXLEY . of human inquiry , especially by applying the test of 36 STUDIES IN ANIMAL LIFE .
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... things could have seemed more remote from any useful end than this product of mathematical genius ; yet it is now clear to every one that the conduct of James was supremely insig- nificant in comparison with this discovery . I do not ...
... things could have seemed more remote from any useful end than this product of mathematical genius ; yet it is now clear to every one that the conduct of James was supremely insig- nificant in comparison with this discovery . I do not ...
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Términos y frases comunes
animal forms animal kingdom animalcule Articulata backbone become bird body branches breathe budding called capsule cells Cercaria CHAPTER characters cilia classes classification colony common Comparative Anatomy Crustaceans cuttlefish Cuvier desiccation digestive tube dirt or moss distinct dogs dust earth eggs embryo ence Entomostraca existence experiments fact feelers fish fixity of species four thousand frog genera Geoffroy St glass hare Hydra hypothesis idea individual Infusoria insects labor languages larvæ Life.-The Linnæus living lungs male mals mantle membrane ment microscope Mollusca mollusks mouth Muslin mussel nacre Natural History naturalists once Opalina Origin of Species oyster paradoxical parasites pearls Pfaff plants Polype ponds Protozoa rabbit races Radiata resemble resuscitation revive Rotifera Rotifers shells skeleton stomach studies surface swimming tail Tardigrade tentacles things thread-worms tion true variable varieties Vertebrata vertebrate Volvox worms young youth zoologists
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Página 118 - Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
Página 113 - As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever-branching and beautiful ramifications.
Página 111 - It is a truly wonderful fact — the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity — that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in groups subordinate to groups, in the manner which we everywhere behold...
Página 95 - Altogether at least a score of pigeons might be chosen, which, if shown to an ornithologist, and he were told that they were wild birds, would certainly be ranked by him as well-defined species.
Página 111 - On the view that each species has been independently created, I can see no explanation of this great fact in the classification of all organic beings; but, to the best of my judgment, it is explained through inheritance and the complex action of natural selection, entailing extinction and divergence of character, as we have seen illustrated in the diagram.
Página 18 - It has not been sufficiently insisted on, that in the various branches of Social Science there is an advance from the general to the special, from the simple to the complex, analogous with that which is found in the series of the sciences, from Mathematics to Biology. To the laws of quantity comprised in Mathematics and...
Página 54 - ... moisture of the breath has evaporated, the wafer be shaken off, we shall find that the whole polished surface is not as it was before, although our senses can detect no difference ; for if we breathe again upon it the surface will be moist everywhere except on the spot previously sheltered by the wafer, which will now appear as a spectral image on the surface. Again and again we breathe, and the moisture evaporates, but' still the spectral wafer reappears. This experiment succeeds after a lapse...
Página 55 - ... spectre of the key will again appear. In the case of bodies more highly phosphorescent than paper, the spectres of many different objects which may have been laid on it in succession will, on warming, emerge in their proper order. This is equally true of our bodies and our minds. We are involved in the universal metamorphosis. Nothing leaves us wholly as it found us. Every man we meet, every book we read, every picture or landscape we see, every word or tone we hear, mingles with our being and...
Página 97 - Latin ; if all historical documents previous to the fifteenth century had been lost ; if tradition even were silent as to the former existence of a Roman empire, a mere comparison of the six Romance dialects would enable us to say that at some time there must have been a language from which all these modern dialects derived their origin in common ; for without this supposition it would be impossible to account for the facts exhibited by these dialects.
Página 98 - But a change from je suis to tii es is inexplicable by the light of French grammar. These forms could not have grown, so to speak, on French soil, but must have been handed down as relics from a former period — must have existed in some language antecedent to any of the Romance dialects.