The Nature of manPutnam's, 1905 - 309 pages |
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Page xi
... AND DISHARMONIES AMONGST BEINGS INFERIOR TO ΜΑΝ The organised world before the appearance of man on the earth - Absence of a law of universal progress - Fertilisation xi Page iii ix 17 of vanilla - The part played by insects in the.
... AND DISHARMONIES AMONGST BEINGS INFERIOR TO ΜΑΝ The organised world before the appearance of man on the earth - Absence of a law of universal progress - Fertilisation xi Page iii ix 17 of vanilla - The part played by insects in the.
Page xiii
... amongst primitive and uncivilised races - Disharmony between age of puberty and age of nubility - Age of marriage - Examples of disharmony in the development of the reproductive function III Disharmonies in the family instincts ...
... amongst primitive and uncivilised races - Disharmony between age of puberty and age of nubility - Age of marriage - Examples of disharmony in the development of the reproductive function III Disharmonies in the family instincts ...
Page xv
... amongst unicellular organisms - Conjugation amongst infusoria -Old age in birds and in anthropoid apes - General characters of senile degeneration - Sclerosis of the organs- Phagocyte theory of senile degeneration - Destruction of ...
... amongst unicellular organisms - Conjugation amongst infusoria -Old age in birds and in anthropoid apes - General characters of senile degeneration - Sclerosis of the organs- Phagocyte theory of senile degeneration - Destruction of ...
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... to man , I shall survey the lower forms of life , hoping to fix some landmarks that will be useful in the study of the larger problem . CHAPTER II HARMONIES AND DISHARMONIES AMONGST BEINGS INFERIOR TO MAN 16 THE NATURE OF MAN.
... to man , I shall survey the lower forms of life , hoping to fix some landmarks that will be useful in the study of the larger problem . CHAPTER II HARMONIES AND DISHARMONIES AMONGST BEINGS INFERIOR TO MAN 16 THE NATURE OF MAN.
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... amongst which were scorpions and insects . The scorpions of that time resemble in every way those that actually live at the present day in tropical countries ; and amongst the insects of that early epoch were some very B like the ...
... amongst which were scorpions and insects . The scorpions of that time resemble in every way those that actually live at the present day in tropical countries ; and amongst the insects of that early epoch were some very B like the ...
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Page 291 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Page 161 - For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
Page 291 - ... then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Page 160 - LORD empty: every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
Page 278 - Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
Page 11 - I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Page 289 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 175 - tis not in The harmony of things, — this hard decree, This uneradicable taint of sin, This boundless upas, this all-blasting tree...
Page 82 - Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die...
Page 224 - I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.