The Physical Basis of SocietyD. Appleton and Company, 1916 - 406 من الصفحات |
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... later the appearance of the man who will do for the present century what Spencer sought with considerable success to do for the last , namely , correlate existing knowledge and show its bearing on man and his institutions ? I doubt if ...
... later the appearance of the man who will do for the present century what Spencer sought with considerable success to do for the last , namely , correlate existing knowledge and show its bearing on man and his institutions ? I doubt if ...
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... later Davy , experimenting with his electric battery , discovered that all the common substances known as " earths " were compounds containing oxygen . Thence- forth there was a steady series of discoveries of elements whose qualities ...
... later Davy , experimenting with his electric battery , discovered that all the common substances known as " earths " were compounds containing oxygen . Thence- forth there was a steady series of discoveries of elements whose qualities ...
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... later ( August ) , while the lowest is not reached before March . In the interior of the United States the temperature of the winter months fluctuates more than 4.5 ° about the mean ; in Russia , 6.3 ° ; but in the coast climate of Eng ...
... later ( August ) , while the lowest is not reached before March . In the interior of the United States the temperature of the winter months fluctuates more than 4.5 ° about the mean ; in Russia , 6.3 ° ; but in the coast climate of Eng ...
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... later . Temperature is perhaps the most influential factor in determining the distribution of life . This has varying aspects . Indirectly it may control the habitat because of food supply . Many birds could easily spend winter north of ...
... later . Temperature is perhaps the most influential factor in determining the distribution of life . This has varying aspects . Indirectly it may control the habitat because of food supply . Many birds could easily spend winter north of ...
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... later lives is well known . In an acre of soil Darwin showed that there were from 50,000 to 500,000 earthworms , each of which passed through its body some 20 ounces of earth a year . On two square yards studied by Darwin the amount ...
... later lives is well known . In an acre of soil Darwin showed that there were from 50,000 to 500,000 earthworms , each of which passed through its body some 20 ounces of earth a year . On two square yards studied by Darwin the amount ...
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الصفحة 155 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
الصفحة 139 - I happened to read for amusement ' Malthus on Population,' and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of new species. Here then I had at last got a theory by which to work...
الصفحة 58 - Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.
الصفحة 139 - In October 1838, that is, fifteen months after I had begun my systematic enquiry, I happened to read for amusement Malthus on Population, and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would...
الصفحة 54 - It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.
الصفحة 186 - The two parents between them contribute on the average onehalf of each inherited faculty, each of them contributing onequarter of it. The four grandparents contribute between them one-quarter, or each of them one-sixteenth ; and so on, the sum of the series i + J + i + TV + , being equal to 1, as it should be.
الصفحة 126 - This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.
الصفحة 58 - I am tempted to give one more instance showing how plants and animals, remote in the scale of nature, are bound together by a web of complex relations.
الصفحة 159 - I can conceive in biology would be the discovery of the instability which leads to the continual division of the cell. When I look at a dividing cell I feel as an astronomer might do if he beheld the formation of a double star: that an original act of creation is taking place before me.
الصفحة 58 - I have also found that the visits of bees are necessary for the fertilization of some kinds of clover; for instance, 20 heads of Dutch clover (Trifolium repens) yielded 2,290 seeds, but 20 other heads protected from bees produced not one.