 ... chambers, forming tunnels, making roads, guarding their home, gathering food, feeding the young, tending their domestic animals, — each one fulfilling its duties industriously, and without confusion, — it is difficult altogether to deny to them...  Nature - Page iiedited by - 1905Full view - About this book
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1905 - 1044 pages
...reason , iinu IDC prccc ing observations tend to confirm the opinion that their mental powers diff from those of men not so much in kind as in degree." KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., Ltd., DRYDEN HOUSE, GERRARD ST., W. READY. «to, Cloth, with 37... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Ants - 1882 - 526 pages
...it is difficult altogether to deny to them the gift of reason ; and the preceding observations tend to confirm the opinion that their mental powers differ...from those of men, not so much in kind as in degree. 182 CHAPTER VIII. ON THE SENSES OF ANTS. The Sense of Vision. IT is, I think, generally assumed not... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888 - 878 pages
...confusion, it is difficult altogether to deny them the gift of reason,' or escape the conviction ' that their mental powers differ from those of men, not so much in kind as in degree ' ( Lubbock ). See INSTINCT, INSECT, APHIDES ; Lubbock'a Antt, Beet, and Waspi (Internal. So. Series,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Archaeology - 1890 - 382 pages
...it is difficult altogether to deny to them the gift of reason ; and the preceding observations tend to confirm the opinion that their mental powers differ...from those of men not so much in kind as in degree. Let me in conclusion once more say, that, notwithstanding the labours of those great naturalists to... | |
 | Joseph Young Bergen, Fanny Dickerson Bergen - Evolution - 1890 - 288 pages
...it is difficult altogether to deny to them the gift of reason ; and the preceding observations tend to confirm the opinion that their mental, powers differ...from those of men not so much in kind as in degree." 2 On the other hand, the full-grown scale-insect consists simply of an oval, convex scale, destitute... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Astronomy - 1892 - 492 pages
...to deny to them the gift of reason ; and all our 1 Ants, Bees, and Wasps. recent observations tend to confirm the opinion that their mental powers differ...from those of men, not so much in kind as in degree. CHAPTER III ON ANIMAL LIFE — continued An organic being is a microcosm — a little universe, formed... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - Zoology - 1892 - 398 pages
...the gift of reason," or, perhaps more accurately, intelligence, for we cannot escape the conviction " that their mental powers differ from those of men not so much in kind as in degree." Kropotkine says that the work of ants is performed "according to the principles of voluntary mutual... | |
 | Eugene Cunningham Branson - Readers - 1899 - 400 pages
...confusion,—it is difficult altogether to deny to them the gift of reason; and all our recent observations tend to confirm the opinion that their mental powers differ from those of men not so much in kind as in degree.—From " The Beauties of Nature." Macmillan &• Company. DEFINITIONS.—i. Hos til'i ty, enmity.... | |
 | Conwy Lloyd Morgan - Animal behavior - 1900 - 370 pages
...it is difficult altogether to deny to them the gift of reason ; and the preceding observations tend to confirm the opinion that their mental powers differ from those of man, not so much in kind as in degree." If the term " reason" be here accepted in the broad sense,... | |
 | Conwy Lloyd Morgan - Animal behavior - 1900 - 396 pages
...it is difficult altogether to deny to them the gift of reason ; and the preceding observations tend to confirm the opinion that their mental powers differ from those of man, not so much in kind as in degree." If the term " reason " be here accepted in the broad sense,... | |
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