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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... tion which we call physical causation . The new - born child is said to seek the breast instinctively , but every nurse knows that it does not seek the breast at all without experience , although it does suck by nature and without ...
... tion which we call physical causation . The new - born child is said to seek the breast instinctively , but every nurse knows that it does not seek the breast at all without experience , although it does suck by nature and without ...
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... tion than vitality ? -yet you find the employment of this word . ' both useful and justifiable . ' You can separate water into its elements and then , by recombining them , you can get water again ; and this you may repeat as often as ...
... tion than vitality ? -yet you find the employment of this word . ' both useful and justifiable . ' You can separate water into its elements and then , by recombining them , you can get water again ; and this you may repeat as often as ...
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... of nature " until three or four years before , when the " state of nature was brought to an end , so far as a small patch of soil is concerned , by the interven- 1 . tion of man . The patch was cut off 42 THE FOUNDATIONS OF ZOOLOGY.
... of nature " until three or four years before , when the " state of nature was brought to an end , so far as a small patch of soil is concerned , by the interven- 1 . tion of man . The patch was cut off 42 THE FOUNDATIONS OF ZOOLOGY.
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... tion of matter and energy working for an end , not a spinning toy ; and when the living machine is compared to the products of human art , the legitimate deduction is that it is not merely a spinning eddy in a stream of dead matter and ...
... tion of matter and energy working for an end , not a spinning toy ; and when the living machine is compared to the products of human art , the legitimate deduction is that it is not merely a spinning eddy in a stream of dead matter and ...
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... tion , and that the naturalist of some distant age may be able to there exhibit it , just as the photographer brings out the picture on his negative ; but even if this were done , the picture would still remain only an image of an ...
... tion , and that the naturalist of some distant age may be able to there exhibit it , just as the photographer brings out the picture on his negative ; but even if this were done , the picture would still remain only an image of an ...
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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.