Intelligence in Plants and Animals: Being a New Edition of the Author's Privately Issued "Soul and Immortality." |
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... feet . Nothing can be less animal - like than one of these shapeless masses of pure protoplasm , yet under a microscope of strong power it may be seen moving lazily along by pulling out a thick finger of slime and then letting all the ...
... feet . Nothing can be less animal - like than one of these shapeless masses of pure protoplasm , yet under a microscope of strong power it may be seen moving lazily along by pulling out a thick finger of slime and then letting all the ...
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... feet , and contracting them . Its movement is slow and gliding . When at rest it appears as a mere lump of jelly , but its whole demeanor changes when in the pres- ence of a living animal suited for food . Fine threads imme- diately ...
... feet , and contracting them . Its movement is slow and gliding . When at rest it appears as a mere lump of jelly , but its whole demeanor changes when in the pres- ence of a living animal suited for food . Fine threads imme- diately ...
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... feet . Did we wish to select from among all the denizens of life the most brilliant , grace- ful , and sylph - like , whose very life - histories read more like the romance of poetry than sober reality , we would choose those which ...
... feet . Did we wish to select from among all the denizens of life the most brilliant , grace- ful , and sylph - like , whose very life - histories read more like the romance of poetry than sober reality , we would choose those which ...
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... feet to be muscular cylinders , hollow in the centre , and very extensible . In progression the animal extends a few of its feet , attaches its suckers to the rocks or stones and then , by retracting its feet , draws the body forward ...
... feet to be muscular cylinders , hollow in the centre , and very extensible . In progression the animal extends a few of its feet , attaches its suckers to the rocks or stones and then , by retracting its feet , draws the body forward ...
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... feet - tubes , as their lives are generally spent upon the rocks or nestled in bunches of sea - weed . Brittle - stars , as these are called , though closely related to the Star - fishes , are not easily confounded with them , for their ...
... feet - tubes , as their lives are generally spent upon the rocks or nestled in bunches of sea - weed . Brittle - stars , as these are called , though closely related to the Star - fishes , are not easily confounded with them , for their ...
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Page 474 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 444 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse : a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms.
Page 474 - Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth...
Page 478 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young...
Page 462 - But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the spirit of the Lord" (2 Corinthians 3:13-18, New King James Version).
Page 464 - He was delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justification...
Page 469 - But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Page 444 - And as Natural Selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.
Page 463 - For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
Page 479 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.