INTELLIGENCE IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS1900 |
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... entire animal and vegetable kingdoms into a number of divisions , whose leading char- acteristics may be found in almost every text - book . All that we promised ourselves when this work was first thought of was a brief treatment of a ...
... entire animal and vegetable kingdoms into a number of divisions , whose leading char- acteristics may be found in almost every text - book . All that we promised ourselves when this work was first thought of was a brief treatment of a ...
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... entire surface of the leaf emit a copious discharge , as in this case the glands on both sides are pressed against the meat or insect , the secretion being twice as great as when the one or the other is laid on the surface of a single ...
... entire surface of the leaf emit a copious discharge , as in this case the glands on both sides are pressed against the meat or insect , the secretion being twice as great as when the one or the other is laid on the surface of a single ...
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... entire breadth , and as this takes place the margins gradually become a little everted , so that the spikes , which at first intercrossed , at last project in two parallel rows . So firmly do they become pressed together that , if any ...
... entire breadth , and as this takes place the margins gradually become a little everted , so that the spikes , which at first intercrossed , at last project in two parallel rows . So firmly do they become pressed together that , if any ...
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... entire breadth . The stimulus must therefore radiate in all directions from any one fila- ment , and it must also be transmitted with considerable rapidity across the leaf , for in all ordinary cases , as far as the eye can judge , both ...
... entire breadth . The stimulus must therefore radiate in all directions from any one fila- ment , and it must also be transmitted with considerable rapidity across the leaf , for in all ordinary cases , as far as the eye can judge , both ...
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... entire pond would seem , if they could be seen with the unaided vision , literally alive with them , they live , and multiply and die under our very feet . Nothing can be less animal - like than one of these shapeless masses of pure ...
... entire pond would seem , if they could be seen with the unaided vision , literally alive with them , they live , and multiply and die under our very feet . Nothing can be less animal - like than one of these shapeless masses of pure ...
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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).