The Physical Basis of SocietyD. Appleton and Company, 1916 - 406 من الصفحات |
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... living , or , at least , has reached maturity , but he is sure to come , for after all life is a unity and human welfare our great- est concern . If in any small way I have helped to sug- gest that unity and the desirability of such ...
... living , or , at least , has reached maturity , but he is sure to come , for after all life is a unity and human welfare our great- est concern . If in any small way I have helped to sug- gest that unity and the desirability of such ...
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... living organisms . In earlier days life was considered as something en- tirely apart from matter , an outside spirit temporarily living in a material body ; just as light and heat were interpreted as occult manifestations of some spirit ...
... living organisms . In earlier days life was considered as something en- tirely apart from matter , an outside spirit temporarily living in a material body ; just as light and heat were interpreted as occult manifestations of some spirit ...
الصفحة 9
... living organ- isms is carbon although this forms only .03 per cent by volume of the atmosphere and .01 per cent by weight of water . It is stated that over 100,000 compounds of carbon are now known . Some of these are very simple like ...
... living organ- isms is carbon although this forms only .03 per cent by volume of the atmosphere and .01 per cent by weight of water . It is stated that over 100,000 compounds of carbon are now known . Some of these are very simple like ...
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... living structure we know not the fact has become clear . We are all familiar with the old illustration of the lily beauti- ful in spite of the mud in which it grows . We see that the lily is beautiful because of the mud . Did not these ...
... living structure we know not the fact has become clear . We are all familiar with the old illustration of the lily beauti- ful in spite of the mud in which it grows . We see that the lily is beautiful because of the mud . Did not these ...
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... living or staying most of the time in one of the places . The only reason to be assigned to this unequal or local distribution of the animals is that they are not in physiological equilibrium in all the places . " 16 Its habitat then is ...
... living or staying most of the time in one of the places . The only reason to be assigned to this unequal or local distribution of the animals is that they are not in physiological equilibrium in all the places . " 16 Its habitat then is ...
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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.