The Nature of Man: Studies in Optimistic PhilosophyG. P. Putnam's sons, 1905 - 309 pages |
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Page 31
... normal functions . Rudimentary and useless organs are widely distributed , and we find them in many places . Familiar instances are the atrophied eyes of animals that live in the dark , and the sometimes rudimentary sexual organs of ...
... normal functions . Rudimentary and useless organs are widely distributed , and we find them in many places . Familiar instances are the atrophied eyes of animals that live in the dark , and the sometimes rudimentary sexual organs of ...
Page 33
... normal meta- morphosis becomes impossible , and the larva dies before its maturity . Fabre * questioned whether the caterpillar during the time of the weaving of the cocoon was capable of repairing it if it was damaged . For this object ...
... normal meta- morphosis becomes impossible , and the larva dies before its maturity . Fabre * questioned whether the caterpillar during the time of the weaving of the cocoon was capable of repairing it if it was damaged . For this object ...
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... normal colour , and its corpuscles remain practically unaltered . If , instead of adding guinea- pig's blood to the serum of rabbit's blood , we add a serum drawn from the blood of the guinea - pig , still no special change occurs . If ...
... normal colour , and its corpuscles remain practically unaltered . If , instead of adding guinea- pig's blood to the serum of rabbit's blood , we add a serum drawn from the blood of the guinea - pig , still no special change occurs . If ...
Page 53
... normal salt solution , and placed in a tube containing the serum of an animal prepared by means of the injections of human blood . If a precipitate forms in the liquid in a short time , the fact indicates that the stain is really human ...
... normal salt solution , and placed in a tube containing the serum of an animal prepared by means of the injections of human blood . If a precipitate forms in the liquid in a short time , the fact indicates that the stain is really human ...
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... normal occurrence . Selenka has shown that among gorillas and ourangs individuals with a fourth pair of molars , bringing up the number of teeth to thirty - six , are not rare , He found these additional molars in 20 per cent . of one ...
... normal occurrence . Selenka has shown that among gorillas and ourangs individuals with a fourth pair of molars , bringing up the number of teeth to thirty - six , are not rare , He found these additional molars in 20 per cent . of one ...
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Page 293 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Page 163 - 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 293 - ... 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 162 - 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 280 - 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 13 - 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 291 - 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 177 - tis not in The harmony of things, — this hard decree, This uneradicable taint of sin, This boundless upas, this all-blasting tree...
Page 84 - 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 226 - 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.