Intelligence in Plants and Animals: Being a New Edition of the Author's Privately Issued "Soul and Immortality." |
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... natural selection affords an explanation of every phenomenon that they may exhibit . There is an energy within the plant , think and write as we will , and it is this that comes to its aid and directs the movement that will be ...
... natural selection affords an explanation of every phenomenon that they may exhibit . There is an energy within the plant , think and write as we will , and it is this that comes to its aid and directs the movement that will be ...
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... nature . There are many things not yet dreamt of in our philosophy which science must . reveal , many discoveries yet to be ... Natural Selection , which in animals affects the body and seems to have little influence on the mind , in man ...
... nature . There are many things not yet dreamt of in our philosophy which science must . reveal , many discoveries yet to be ... Natural Selection , which in animals affects the body and seems to have little influence on the mind , in man ...
Page 427
... nature , organic beings to his Own uses . But Natural Selection , as is well known , is a power incessantly ready for action , and is as infinitely superior to man's feeble efforts as the works of nature are to those of art . All ...
... nature , organic beings to his Own uses . But Natural Selection , as is well known , is a power incessantly ready for action , and is as infinitely superior to man's feeble efforts as the works of nature are to those of art . All ...
Page 437
... Selection has in the hands of man , in regard to variation , can it be applied in nature ? We can see that it can ... Natural Selection , or the Survival of the Fittest . Variations neither advantageous nor deleterious would not be ...
... Selection has in the hands of man , in regard to variation , can it be applied in nature ? We can see that it can ... Natural Selection , or the Survival of the Fittest . Variations neither advantageous nor deleterious would not be ...
Page 438
... Natural Selection , for unless such do occur , Natural Selection can do nothing . As man , by adding up in any given direction individual dif- ferences , can certainly produce a great result with his domestic animals and plants , so could ...
... Natural Selection , for unless such do occur , Natural Selection can do nothing . As man , by adding up in any given direction individual dif- ferences , can certainly produce a great result with his domestic animals and plants , so could ...
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Page 474 - 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 444 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse : a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms.
Page 474 - Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth...
Page 478 - 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 462 - 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).
Page 464 - He was delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justification...
Page 469 - 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 444 - And as Natural Selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.
Page 463 - 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 479 - 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.