Intelligence in Plants and Animals: Being a New Edition of the Author's Privately Issued "Soul and Immortality." |
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... Strange Friendship ... Nature's Little Store - Keeper . Canine Sagacity .. Feline Intelligence . Bright Little Cebidæ .. Untutored Man .. Living Souls .... Consciousness in Plants . Mind in Animals ... Life Progressive ... Survival of ...
... Strange Friendship ... Nature's Little Store - Keeper . Canine Sagacity .. Feline Intelligence . Bright Little Cebidæ .. Untutored Man .. Living Souls .... Consciousness in Plants . Mind in Animals ... Life Progressive ... Survival of ...
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... strange forms of vege- table life have been known for about a century , yet it has been but a few years since the attention of naturalists was first specially called to their habits and character . No one has probably done more to ...
... strange forms of vege- table life have been known for about a century , yet it has been but a few years since the attention of naturalists was first specially called to their habits and character . No one has probably done more to ...
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... strange capacity of detaching one or more of its arms , each of the cast - off members becoming in time a perfect creature of its own kind , while a new arm , fully equipped to perform all necessary functions , will grow out in place of ...
... strange capacity of detaching one or more of its arms , each of the cast - off members becoming in time a perfect creature of its own kind , while a new arm , fully equipped to perform all necessary functions , will grow out in place of ...
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... strange quar- ters , it will be seen to curl up the tips of its rays , and there under the point of each ray will be found a thick red spot seated on the extremity of a nerve , and having in it as many as from one hundred to two hundred ...
... strange quar- ters , it will be seen to curl up the tips of its rays , and there under the point of each ray will be found a thick red spot seated on the extremity of a nerve , and having in it as many as from one hundred to two hundred ...
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... strange fact ? The poor little fellow comes out of his house to die . Yes , to die . To us humans home is the only fit place to die in , but to Eu- pagurus it has no attractions at this solemn time . Poor fellow ! With a sad look and a ...
... strange fact ? The poor little fellow comes out of his house to die . Yes , to die . To us humans home is the only fit place to die in , but to Eu- pagurus it has no attractions at this solemn time . Poor fellow ! With a sad look and a ...
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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.