 | Erasmus Darwin - Evolution - 1801 - 602 pages
...As air and water are fupplied.to animals in fufficient profufion, the three great objects of defire, which have changed the forms of many animals by their exertions to gratify them, are thofe of luft, hunger, and fecurity. A great want of one part of the animal world, has confifted in... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - Evolution - 1803 - 622 pages
...As air and water are fupplied to animals in fufficient profuCon, the three great objects of defire, which have changed the forms of many animals by their exertions to gratify them, arc thofe of luft, hunger, and fecuriry. A great *want of one part of the animal world has confilted... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1914 - 926 pages
...enunciated by Erasmus Darwin in his " Zoonomia," first published in 1794? I quote from an edition of 1800. " A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted...acquired weapons to combat each other for this purpose. ... So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1879 - 436 pages
...associations; and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity. " As air and water are supplied to animals in sufficient...which have changed the forms of many animals by their desires to gratify them are those of lust, hunger, and security. A great want of one part of the animal... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1879 - 402 pages
...of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity. " As air and watef"are supplied to animals in sufficient profusion, the three...which have changed the forms of many animals by their desires to gratify them are those of lust, hunger, and security. A great want of one part of the animal... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - Natural history - 1886 - 344 pages
...associations ; and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity. 'As air and water are supplied to animals in sufficient...animals by their exertions to gratify them, are those of love, hunger, and security. A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - Evolution - 1887 - 228 pages
...exertions ; . . . and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity. ... A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire of the exclusive possession of the female ; and these have acquired weapons to combat each other for this purpose. . . . The final cause... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - Zoology - 1892 - 398 pages
...associations ; and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity." "As air and water are supplied to animals in sufficient...gratify them, are those of lust, hunger, and security." " This idea of the gradual generation of all things seems to have been as familiar to the ancient philosophers... | |
 | 1893 - 478 pages
...and security — have changed the form of many animals by their exertions to gratify them ; and that a great want of one part of the animal world has consisted...desire of the exclusive possession of the females, another in the procuring of food, " which has diversified the forms of all species of animals," while... | |
 | Benjamin Ward Richardson, Mrs. George Martin - Medicine - 1900 - 468 pages
...and security— have changed the form of many animals by their exertions to gratify them ; and that a great want of one part of the animal world has consisted...desire of the exclusive possession of the females, another in the procuring of food, " which has diversified the forms of all species of animals," while... | |
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A great want of one part of the animal " world has consisted in the desire of the " exclusive possession of the females... 
