 When we see an ant-hill, tenanted by thousands of industrious inhabitants, excavating chambers, forming tunnels, making roads, guarding their home, gathering food, feeding the young, tending their domestic animals, — each one fulfilling its duties industriously,...  The American Naturalist - Стр. 7721882Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1882 - Страниц: 840
...far are they mere exquisite automatons ; how far are they conscious beings ? When we see an ant-hill, tenanted by thousands of industrious inhabitants,...altogether to deny to them the gift of reason ; and yet it is perhaps wiser to admit that the whole question is still a mystery, WEEKLY EVENING MEETING,... | |
 | 1883 - Страниц: 692
...human development — the hunting, the pastoral, asd the agricultural stages. When we see an ant-hill tenanted by thousands of industrious inhabitants,...without confusion, it is difficult altogether to deny them some remarkable power of reason or intelligence. In conclusion, he said that, notwithstanding... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1882 - Страниц: 526
...far are ants mere exquisite automatons ; how far are they conscious beings ? When we see an ant-hill, tenanted by thousands of industrious inhabitants,...from those of men, not so much in kind as in degree. 182 CHAPTER VIII. ON THE SENSES OF ANTS. The Sense of Vision. IT is, I think, generally assumed not... | |
 | 1888 - Страниц: 878
...communities, ants exhibit a considerable range of emotional development. 'When we see an ant-hill, tenanted by thousands of industrious inhabitants,...without confusion, it is difficult altogether to deny them the gift of reason,' or escape the conviction ' that their mental powers differ from those of... | |
 | 1888 - Страниц: 854
...' When we see an ant-hill, tenanted by thousands of industrious inhabitants, excavating chainbe», forming tunnels, making roads, guarding their home,...without confusion, it is difficult altogether to deny them the gift of reason,' or escape the conviction ' that their mental powers differ from those of... | |
 | Joseph Young Bergen, Fanny Dickerson Bergen - 1890 - Страниц: 288
...far are ants mere exquisite automatons ; how far are they conscious beings ? When we see an ant-hill, tenanted by thousands of industrious inhabitants,...from those of men not so much in kind as in degree." 2 On the other hand, the full-grown scale-insect consists simply of an oval, convex scale, destitute... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1890 - Страниц: 382
...far are ants mere exquisite automatons ; how far are they conscious beings ? When we see an ant-hill, tenanted by thousands of industrious inhabitants,...from those of men not so much in kind as in degree. Let me in conclusion once more say, that, notwithstanding the labours of those great naturalists to... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1892 - Страниц: 508
...they are mere exquisite automatons ; how far they are conscious beings ? When we watch an ant-hill tenanted by thousands of industrious inhabitants,...altogether to deny to them the gift of reason ; and all our 1 Ants, Bees, and Wasps. recent observations tend to confirm the opinion that their mental... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1892 - Страниц: 398
...with Sir John Lubbock, to whose patient observations we owe so much, that, " when we see an ant-hill, tenanted by thousands of industrious inhabitants,...without confusion, it is difficult altogether to deny them the gift of reason," or, perhaps more accurately, intelligence, for we cannot escape the conviction... | |
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