INTELLIGENCE IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS1900 |
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... cause the organism to pass into a state of active life . Generally , certain external conditions must be present before any external vital phenomena can be manifested . The presence of atmospheric air , or rather of free oxygen , is in ...
... cause the organism to pass into a state of active life . Generally , certain external conditions must be present before any external vital phenomena can be manifested . The presence of atmospheric air , or rather of free oxygen , is in ...
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... causing the lobes to close , but a piece of delicate human hair , two and a - half inches in length , held dangling over a filament so as to touch it , or pinches of fine wheaten flour , dropped from a height , produce no effect ...
... causing the lobes to close , but a piece of delicate human hair , two and a - half inches in length , held dangling over a filament so as to touch it , or pinches of fine wheaten flour , dropped from a height , produce no effect ...
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... causing fresh glands on both sides to begin secreting in a continually widening circle . The secretion is almost colorless , slightly mucilaginous , moderately acid , and so copious at times in the furrow over the mid - rib as to ...
... causing fresh glands on both sides to begin secreting in a continually widening circle . The secretion is almost colorless , slightly mucilaginous , moderately acid , and so copious at times in the furrow over the mid - rib as to ...
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... caused the least movement . Vigorous leaves will sometimes devour prey several times , but ordinarily twice , or , quite often , once is enough to render them unserviceable . What purpose the marginal spikes , which form so conspicu ...
... caused the least movement . Vigorous leaves will sometimes devour prey several times , but ordinarily twice , or , quite often , once is enough to render them unserviceable . What purpose the marginal spikes , which form so conspicu ...
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... cause both lobes to close , these becoming at the instant incurved throughout their entire breadth . The stimulus must therefore radiate in all directions from any one fila- ment , and it must also be transmitted with considerable ...
... cause both lobes to close , these becoming at the instant incurved throughout their entire breadth . The stimulus must therefore radiate in all directions from any one fila- ment , and it must also be transmitted with considerable ...
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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).