INTELLIGENCE IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS1900 |
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... eye can judge , both lobes close at the same time . Physiolo- gists generally believe that in irritable plants the excitement is transmitted along , or in close connection with , the fibro- vascular bundles . Those in Dionæa seem at ...
... eye can judge , both lobes close at the same time . Physiolo- gists generally believe that in irritable plants the excitement is transmitted along , or in close connection with , the fibro- vascular bundles . Those in Dionæa seem at ...
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... eyes or ears or parts of any kind it knows how to find its food ; without muscles or limbs it is able to seize it ; without a mouth it can suck out its living body , and without a stomach it can digest the food in the midst of its own ...
... eyes or ears or parts of any kind it knows how to find its food ; without muscles or limbs it is able to seize it ; without a mouth it can suck out its living body , and without a stomach it can digest the food in the midst of its own ...
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... of each of which is situated a single red - eye speck , are somewhat irregularly arranged , and not rarely one is. STAR - FISH OPENING AN OYSTER . COMMON EARTH - WORMS Out on a Foraging Excursion . Five - Fingered Jack on the Oyster . 45.
... of each of which is situated a single red - eye speck , are somewhat irregularly arranged , and not rarely one is. STAR - FISH OPENING AN OYSTER . COMMON EARTH - WORMS Out on a Foraging Excursion . Five - Fingered Jack on the Oyster . 45.
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... eye , which is far better than the jelly - fish enjoys , it is no wonder that the Star - fish is so quick in discerning food , or enrages the fisherman by the discovery of the bait which he had intended for other animals , for it turns ...
... eye , which is far better than the jelly - fish enjoys , it is no wonder that the Star - fish is so quick in discerning food , or enrages the fisherman by the discovery of the bait which he had intended for other animals , for it turns ...
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... eyes , we would naturally conclude that worms were quite insensible to light ; but from many experi- ments that have been made by Darwin , Hofmeister and others , it is evident that light affects them , but only by its intensity and ...
... eyes , we would naturally conclude that worms were quite insensible to light ; but from many experi- ments that have been made by Darwin , Hofmeister and others , it is evident that light affects them , but only by its intensity and ...
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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).