The Foundations of ZoölogyMacmillan, 1899 - Всего страниц: 339 Presents a series of lectures from the 1800's which show that life is a response to the order of nature. Includes lectures on nature and nurture, migration, zoology, and the philosophy of evolution. |
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... species of Porcellana clings to the lower surface of the broad shell of Limulus , and the Pinnixas live in the burrows which annelids make in the floor of the ocean . I have found a species of Pinnixa living on the shoals at Beaufort ...
... species of Porcellana clings to the lower surface of the broad shell of Limulus , and the Pinnixas live in the burrows which annelids make in the floor of the ocean . I have found a species of Pinnixa living on the shoals at Beaufort ...
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... species sets impassable bounds to the power of individual animals to improve by practice . No one hesitates to attribute to deficient structure the inability of idiots to learn , and all admit that men of genius are born and not made ...
... species sets impassable bounds to the power of individual animals to improve by practice . No one hesitates to attribute to deficient structure the inability of idiots to learn , and all admit that men of genius are born and not made ...
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William Keith Brooks. duct of individual animals of the same species , it is clear that even if we believe that sufficient knowledge of their nature would enable us to predict their conduct , this knowledge is unattainable , for we ...
William Keith Brooks. duct of individual animals of the same species , it is clear that even if we believe that sufficient knowledge of their nature would enable us to predict their conduct , this knowledge is unattainable , for we ...
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... species , and that we know nothing comparable to it in water or in anything else except living beings , and their products , such as watches , and spiders ' webs , and birds ' nests . The author of our oldest book on zoology opens it ...
... species , and that we know nothing comparable to it in water or in anything else except living beings , and their products , such as watches , and spiders ' webs , and birds ' nests . The author of our oldest book on zoology opens it ...
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... species . I hear it said among you that science has nothing to do with the Why , but only with the How ; but we can surely give answers to the questions ' Why do men make and buy watches ? ' - ' Why do birds pursue their prey ...
... species . I hear it said among you that science has nothing to do with the Why , but only with the How ; but we can surely give answers to the questions ' Why do men make and buy watches ? ' - ' Why do birds pursue their prey ...
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Стр. 309 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Стр. 40 - If the properties of water may be properly said to result from the nature and disposition of its component molecules, I can find no intelligible ground for refusing to say that the properties of protoplasm result from the nature and disposition of its molecules.
Стр. 108 - But where to find that happiest spot below, Who can direct, when all pretend to know ? The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own; Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease.
Стр. 339 - I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that for any thing I knew the watch might have always been there.
Стр. 217 - Consequently, if the theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Cambrian stratum was deposited long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably far longer than, the whole interval from the Cambrian age to the present day ; and that during these vast periods the world swarmed with living creatures.
Стр. 63 - I CANNOT call Riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, im-pedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march; yea and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory.
Стр. 296 - But when, as commonly happens, we change will into must, we introduce an idea of necessity which most assuredly does not lie in the observed facts, and has no warranty that I can discover elsewhere. For my part, I utterly repudiate and anathematise the intruder. Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
Стр. 296 - Simply that in all human experience, stones have fallen to the ground under these conditions; that we have not the smallest reason for believing that any stone so circumstanced will not fall to the ground ; and that we have on the contrary every reason to believe that it will so fall.