Intelligence in Plants and Animals: Being a New Edition of the Author's Privately Issued "Soul and Immortality." |
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... Producing Caterpillars ... Hibernating Butterflies ... Leaf - Cutter Bee ..... Battle Between Ants .. Nest - Building Fishes . Slippery as an Eel ... Rana and Bufo ..... 108 III 115 121 126 132 144 149 153 158 168 174 186 198 Our ...
... Producing Caterpillars ... Hibernating Butterflies ... Leaf - Cutter Bee ..... Battle Between Ants .. Nest - Building Fishes . Slippery as an Eel ... Rana and Bufo ..... 108 III 115 121 126 132 144 149 153 158 168 174 186 198 Our ...
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... produced simply by accretion . They exhibit purely physical and chemical phenomena , and show no tendency to periodic changes of any kind . Fossils or petrifactions , which owe their existence and characters to beings which lived in ...
... produced simply by accretion . They exhibit purely physical and chemical phenomena , and show no tendency to periodic changes of any kind . Fossils or petrifactions , which owe their existence and characters to beings which lived in ...
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... produce no effect . Though not glandular , and hence inca- pable of secretion , yet the filaments by their sensitiveness to a momentary touch , which is followed by the rapid closure of the lobes of the leaf , assure to Dionæa the ...
... produce no effect . Though not glandular , and hence inca- pable of secretion , yet the filaments by their sensitiveness to a momentary touch , which is followed by the rapid closure of the lobes of the leaf , assure to Dionæa the ...
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... produces this effect . When the lobes are made to close over a bit of meat or an insect , the glands over the entire surface of the leaf emit a copious discharge , as in this case the glands on both sides are pressed against the meat or ...
... produces this effect . When the lobes are made to close over a bit of meat or an insect , the glands over the entire surface of the leaf emit a copious discharge , as in this case the glands on both sides are pressed against the meat or ...
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... produced . Budding , which is but a process of natural self - division , is carried on to a large extent , more individuals being pro- duced in this way than from eggs . These buds are at first a simple bulging out of the body - walls ...
... produced . Budding , which is but a process of natural self - division , is carried on to a large extent , more individuals being pro- duced in this way than from eggs . These buds are at first a simple bulging out of the body - walls ...
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ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS American Toad ants aphides appear beast beautiful become birds body Brachinus breath brood burrows called carbonic acid caterpillar cells character Cicada close color common creatures deposited earth effect eggs enemies existence feeding feet female fish fluid frog glands grasses ground habits hatched head human Hydra immortal inches in length insects instinct intelligence kind known large numbers larva larvæ leaf leaves legs living soul lobes look lower animals male manifest manner matter ment mind mouth movements Natural Selection nephesh nest never object observed organic pair PIPING PLOVER plants possess prey protoplasm pupa radicle reason ruach RUFFED GROUSE savage seems seen shell side snakes soon species spider spinnerets spirit Star-fish stones structure surface tail tentacles Tiger Beetle tion toad trees tribe vegetable wings wonderful worms writer young
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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.