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... increases capacity . Feeding , its stimulating necessary . High feeding . Touch , sight , sound as aids to nutrition . Limited duration of a leaf . Nature guides thinking . Analogy between a plant and a child . What is it we compare ? A ...
... increases capacity . Feeding , its stimulating necessary . High feeding . Touch , sight , sound as aids to nutrition . Limited duration of a leaf . Nature guides thinking . Analogy between a plant and a child . What is it we compare ? A ...
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... Increase and decrease of consciousness . Uniform mental acts . A dreamy boy in Kindergarten . Causing a new line of ... Increasing movement from impression or spon- xiv Contents .
... Increase and decrease of consciousness . Uniform mental acts . A dreamy boy in Kindergarten . Causing a new line of ... Increasing movement from impression or spon- xiv Contents .
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Delivered in the University of Cambridge Francis Warner. the storm subsiding . Increasing movement from impression or spon- faneity . Augmentation in area and in quickness ; diminishing action . Quelling emotion . Usefulness of ...
Delivered in the University of Cambridge Francis Warner. the storm subsiding . Increasing movement from impression or spon- faneity . Augmentation in area and in quickness ; diminishing action . Quelling emotion . Usefulness of ...
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... increase of the amplitude of the ordinary movements of circumnutation . The movements of the so - called sleep of plants , the movements of various organs towards the light , are all modified forms of circumnutation . Thus there are ...
... increase of the amplitude of the ordinary movements of circumnutation . The movements of the so - called sleep of plants , the movements of various organs towards the light , are all modified forms of circumnutation . Thus there are ...
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... increased temperature comes increased nutrition , then changes occur in the ratios of growth . The inner surfaces of both bud - scales and young leaves grow at a greater rate than the outer surfaces and thus the curvatures are altered ...
... increased temperature comes increased nutrition , then changes occur in the ratios of growth . The inner surfaces of both bud - scales and young leaves grow at a greater rate than the outer surfaces and thus the curvatures are altered ...
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