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Page 248
... natural and pleasing . - - Space will not allow a minute analysis of each number , and we must therefore make a rapid résumé of those pieces which at first hearing seem to be the best and most pleasing . First , then , we select the ...
... natural and pleasing . - - Space will not allow a minute analysis of each number , and we must therefore make a rapid résumé of those pieces which at first hearing seem to be the best and most pleasing . First , then , we select the ...
Page 256
... natural selection much as they formerly ignored gravitation . Nevertheless , in spite of the Academy and Monsieur Flourens , there are plain indications that the doctrine of special creations is doomed speedily to suffer the fate in ...
... natural selection much as they formerly ignored gravitation . Nevertheless , in spite of the Academy and Monsieur Flourens , there are plain indications that the doctrine of special creations is doomed speedily to suffer the fate in ...
Page 259
... physical and psychical changes having hitherto proceeded pari passu , intelligence had at length arrived at a point where variations - in it would sooner be seized on by natural selection 1873. ] 259 The Progress from Brute to Man .
... physical and psychical changes having hitherto proceeded pari passu , intelligence had at length arrived at a point where variations - in it would sooner be seized on by natural selection 1873. ] 259 The Progress from Brute to Man .
Page 280
... natural selection deals chiefly with such changes , to the visible modification of their bodily structure . In the case of sheep or bears , for instance , increased cold can only select for pres- ervation the individuals most warmly ...
... natural selection deals chiefly with such changes , to the visible modification of their bodily structure . In the case of sheep or bears , for instance , increased cold can only select for pres- ervation the individuals most warmly ...
Page 281
... natural selection and direct adaptation , become so con- siderable that a slight variation in it is of more use to the ani- mal than any variation in physical structure , then such varia- tions will be more and more constantly selected ...
... natural selection and direct adaptation , become so con- siderable that a slight variation in it is of more use to the ani- mal than any variation in physical structure , then such varia- tions will be more and more constantly selected ...
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Page 466 - What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both: They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you.
Page 29 - Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Page 165 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 296 - The prolonged helplessness of the offspring must keep the parents together for longer and longer periods in successive epochs ; and when at last the association is so long kept up that the older children are growing mature while the younger ones still need protection, the family relations begin to become permanent. The parents have lived so long in company that to seek new companionships involves some disturbance of ingrained habits...
Page 250 - Dinah, my spaniel, equally embarrassed on the other. She was overlooking half a dozen of her new-born puppies, which had been removed two or three times from her, and her anxiety was excessive, as she tried to find out if they were all present, or if any were still missing. She kept puzzling and running her eyes over them, backwards and forwards, but could not satisfy herself. She evidently had a vague notion of counting, but the figure was too large for her brain. Taking the two as they stood, dog...
Page 168 - And by the side of the College a fair Grammar School for the training up of young Scholars and fitting of them for Academical Learning, that still as they are judged ripe, they may be received into the College of this School. Master Corlet is the Mr., who hath very well approved himself for his abilities, dexterity, and painfulness in teaching and education of the youth under him.
Page 168 - Pupills in the tongues and Arts, and so seasoned them with the principles of Divinity and Christianity, that we have to our great comfort, (and in truth) beyond our hopes, beheld their progresse in Learning and godlinesse also...
Page 236 - But surely, if there be anything with which metaphysics have nothing to do, and where a plain man, without skill to walk in the arduous paths of abstruse reasoning, may yet find himself at home, it is religion. For the object of religion is conduct ; and conduct is really, however men may overlay it with philosophical disquisitions, the simplest thing in the world.
Page 466 - Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely ? From this time Such I account thy love.