INTELLIGENCE IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS1900 |
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... action , nor are they capable of voluntary changes of place , nor provided with any definite internal cavity , their food being generally fluid or gaseous . Descending the scale to the very bottom , we reach a class of animals , the ...
... action , nor are they capable of voluntary changes of place , nor provided with any definite internal cavity , their food being generally fluid or gaseous . Descending the scale to the very bottom , we reach a class of animals , the ...
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... action . How it differs from that which proceeds from the nerve - ganglion of an animal , if it differ at all , no one can say . It is probably the only known case of reflex action in the vegetable kingdom . Concerning the mechanism of ...
... action . How it differs from that which proceeds from the nerve - ganglion of an animal , if it differ at all , no one can say . It is probably the only known case of reflex action in the vegetable kingdom . Concerning the mechanism of ...
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... action than any used by man . In fresh - water ponds , attached by its base to the under surfaces of aquatic plants , may be found a very small animal , Just large enough to be seen without the aid of a lens , usu- ally pale green , but ...
... action than any used by man . In fresh - water ponds , attached by its base to the under surfaces of aquatic plants , may be found a very small animal , Just large enough to be seen without the aid of a lens , usu- ally pale green , but ...
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... actions bespeak an anxiety which could only be born of an affection , as real and sympathetic as that which a human mother feels for the loss of any of her offspring . No matter how often the eggs become accident- ally scattered , the ...
... actions bespeak an anxiety which could only be born of an affection , as real and sympathetic as that which a human mother feels for the loss of any of her offspring . No matter how often the eggs become accident- ally scattered , the ...
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... action is most effectual in the trituration of the food , for these worms possess no jaws , or teeth of any kind . Grains of sand and small stones , from the one - twentieth to the one - tenth of an inch in size , are found in their ...
... action is most effectual in the trituration of the food , for these worms possess no jaws , or teeth of any kind . Grains of sand and small stones , from the one - twentieth to the one - tenth of an inch in size , are found in their ...
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Page 428 - 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 428 - Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth...
Page 432 - 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 418 - He was delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justification...
Page 423 - 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 417 - 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 433 - 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.
Page 422 - For in death there is no remembrance of thee : in the grave who shall give thee thanks...
Page 416 - 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).