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2924What will come of a variation when you breed from it, when Atavism comes, if I may say so, to intersect variation?
3549081) should undergo its development without becoming attached to the ground,--what should we then have?
35490But now arises a new set of inquiries; how far into the sea do these animals extend?
35490Do they wander at will in the ocean, or are they bound by any law to keep within a certain distance of the shore?
35490What genie under the sea has wrought this wonderful change?
35490how wide is their domain?
2921But can we go no further than that?
2921But where does the grass, or the oat, or any other plant, obtain this nourishing food- producing material?
2921Is there among the plants the same primitive form of organization, and is that identical with that of the animal kingdom?
2921What is he doing?
2923And the second is: How has it been perpetuated?
2923But what more have we to guide us in nine- tenths of the most important affairs of daily life than hypotheses, and often very ill- based ones?
2923How do you know that the laws of Nature are not suspended during the night?
2923How do you know that the man who really made the marks took the spoons?
2923The first is: How has organic or living matter commenced its existence?
2923What are those inductions and deductions, and how have you got at this hypothesis?
2923Your friend says to you,"But how do you know that?"
2923said his opponents;"but what do you know you may be doing when you heat the air over the water in this way?
2922But to how much has man really access?
2922But what does this attempt to construct a universal history of the globe imply?
2922How, then, is mud formed?
2922If you find any record of changes taking place at''b'', did they occur before any events which took place while''a''was being deposited?
2922Is this sound reasoning?
2922Now, how many of those are absolutely extinct?
2922Now, what is the effect of this oscillation?
2922That is to say, how many of these orders of animals have lived at a former period of the world''s history, but have at present no representatives?
2089Are these new species created by the production, at long intervals, of an offspring different in species from the parents?
2089Are they gradually evolved from some embryo substance?
2089But probably the best answer to those who talk of Darwinism meaning the reign of"chance,"is to ask them what they themselves understand by"chance"?
2089Do they believe that anything in this universe happens without reason or without a cause?
2089Or are the species so created produced without parents?
2089Or do they suddenly start from the ground, as in the creation of the poet?...
2930And, after all, is it quite so certain that a genetic relation may not underlie the classification of minerals?
2930But is the analogy a real one?
2930Did M. Flourens ever visit one of the prettiest watering- places of"la belle France,"the Baie d''Arcachon?
2930For what are the phenomena of Agamogenesis, stated generally?
2930How then is the production of new species to be rendered intelligible by the analogy of Agamogenesis?
2930O solidite de l''esprit Francais, que devenez- vous?"
2930O solidite de l''esprit Francais, que devenez- vous?"
2930What are these"dunes"?
2925Are natural causes competent to play the part of selection in perpetuating varieties?
2925But is the like true of the physiological characteristics of animals?
2925But the question now is:--Does selection take place in nature?
2925Can we find any approximation to this in the different races known to be produced by selective breeding from a common stock?
2925Do the physiological differences of varieties amount in degree to those observed between forms which naturalists call distinct species?
2925Now, the next problem that lies before us-- and it is an extremely important one-- is this: Does this selective breeding occur in nature?
2925Now, what is the result of all this?
2925The first question of course is, Do they thus return to the primitive stock?
2925What will be the result, then?
2925What, then, takes place?
2925is there anything like the operation of man in exercising selective breeding, taking place in nature?
33862How,he says,"can we help searching for the cause of such wonderful results?
33862Are we not compelled to admit that nature has produced successively bodies endowed with life, proceeding from the simplest to the most complex?"
33862Do we ask our questions of Nature amiss, or do we not read her answers aright?"
33862He writes:"What would vegetable life be without excitations from without, what would be the life even of the lower animals without this cause?"
33862Is it possible to doubt that the simple conditions which produce an osmotic growth have frequently been realized during the past ages of the earth?
33862Max Verworn exclaims,"Are we on a false track?
33862What part has osmotic growth played in the evolution of living forms, and what traces of its action may we hope to find to- day?
33862Whence then can they obtain the potential energy which they transmit to animals and man, if not from the sun?
18911But does such a reply in itself explain the fact?
18911But is it something more than a machine?
18911How in general are the phenomena of life related to those of the non- living world?
18911How, then, can such a power have been acquired, and how does it inhere in the structure of the organism?
18911What is the actual working attitude of naturalists towards the general problem that I have endeavored to outline?
18911What, now, will be the result of uniting the two forms thus produced--_i.e._ AGAB × AYCB?
18911When such progress as this is being made, have we not a right to believe that we are employing a useful working hypothesis?
16136But if what lies below the horse''s"knee"thus corresponds to the middle finger in ourselves, what has become of the four other fingers or digits?
16136Did things so happen or did they not?
16136Now that we have arrived at the origin of this word"Biology,"the next point to consider is: What ground does it cover?
16136The great issue, about which hangs a true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is what are you going to do with all these things?
16136To this my reply is, Why should I, when that statement was made seven years ago?
16136What has become of the bones of all these animals?
16136What is the object of medical education?
16136What is to be the end to which these are to be the means?
16136What we desire to know is, is it a fact that evolution took place?
2926But has this been done?
2926But in the next place comes a much more difficult inquiry:--Are the causes indicated competent to give rise to the phenomena of organic nature?
2926But what proportion is there between the structural alteration and the functional result?
2926In the first place, do these supposed causes of the phenomena exist in nature?
2926So what is the use of what you have done?"
2926What is Mr. Darwin''s hypothesis?
2926What is it that constitutes and makes man what he is?
2926What is this very speech that we are talking about?
2926What meaning has this fact upon any other hypothesis or supposition than one of successive modification?
2926or what is really the state of the case?
14325[ 35] Tertullian addressed women in these words:Do you not know that you are each an Eve?
14325But why and how does this nuclear material determine sex?
14325How may such biological material be safely used?
14325Hubert and Mauss of L''Année Sociologique?
14325In other words, what is the nature of the process of differentiation into male and female which it sets in motion?
14325Marett in his essay"Is Taboo a Negative Magic?
14325PART I THE NEW BIOLOGY AND THE SEX PROBLEM IN SOCIETY BY M. M. KNIGHT, PH.D. CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM DEFINED What is sex?
14325THE PROBLEM DEFINED What is sex?
14325What are the outstandingly significant sex differences which application of the above criterion leaves?
14325What shall we say of a sterile individual, which produces neither?
14325What, then, do we mean by"male"and"female"in man?
14325Why does not the female become a true, functional male?
2929But suppose we prefer to admit our ignorance rather than adopt a hypothesis at variance with all the teachings of Nature?
2929Is it any more than a grandiloquent way of announcing the fact, that we really know nothing about the matter?
2929Is it satisfactorily proved, in fact, that species may be originated by selection?
2929Is there any test of a physiological species?
2929Or, suppose for a moment we admit the explanation, and then seriously ask ourselves how much the wiser are we; what does the explanation explain?
2929Shall Biology alone remain out of harmony with her sister sciences?
2929What if species should offer residual phenomena, here and there, not explicable by natural selection?
2929What if the orbit of Darwinism should be a little too circular?
2929that none of the phenomena exhibited by species are inconsistent with the origin of species in this way?
2929that there is such a thing as natural selection?
2936Are all the grandest and most interesting problems which offer themselves to the geological student essentially insoluble?
2936How are the Cretaceous Ichthyosauria, Plesiosauria, or Pterosauria less embryonic, or more differentiated, species than those of the Lias?
2936Is he in the position of a scientific Tantalus-- doomed always to thirst for a knowledge which he can not obtain?
2936Is paleontology able to succeed where physical geology fails?
2936Is such a universal history, then, to be regarded as unattainable?
2936On what amount of similarity of their faunae is the doctrine of the contemporaneity of the European and of the North American Silurians based?
2936Or to turn to the higher Vertebrata-- in what sense are the Liassic Chelonia inferior to those which now exist?
2936and what is the evidence on which those fundamental propositions demand our assent?
2936what are the fundamental assumptions upon which they all logically depend?
42606And since it is profitable to all concerned what more natural than that it should be brought about by natural selection?
42606At what rate will this change in the population take place?
42606But is it true?
42606Have we any grounds for supposing that populations of this sort can undergo such rapid changes?
42606What advantage then can an Ithomiine be supposed to gain by mimicking a Heliconine, or_ vice versâ_?
42606What advantage then have the Ithomiines over the majority of butterflies in those parts?
42606Why is it that when the altered germplasm is mingled with the original germplasm the various postulated stages between them are not reformed?
42606Why need we suppose that there were intermediate stages between the mimicking female and the original hypothetical female which was like the male?
42606Why should a species exchange its own bright and conspicuous warning pattern for one which is neither brighter nor more conspicuous?
42606Will natural selection really serve to explain all?
42606Yet if one is better off than the others, how is it that these still exist?
42606hector_?
31316And Wallace-- what was the line taken by him in the unfortunate complication that had thus arisen?
31316And, under what circumstances were they able to produce the works which so profoundly affected the opinions of the day?
31316His great friend Lord Palmerston, on being greeted with the question,''Have you read my last pamphlet?''
31316How has this revolution in thought-- the greatest which has occurred in modern times-- been brought about?
31316Speaking to his fellow geologists in 1869 he said,''Which of us has not thumbed every page of the_ Principles of Geology_[78]?''
31316Was he not poking fun at other hypotheses besides his own?
31316What could be the meaning of this wonderful analogy?
31316What manner of men were they who were the leaders in this great movement?
31316What shall a man desire more than this[145]?''
31316What the influences that led them to discard the old views and adopt new ones?
37221And what would stir into activity in the necessary places the originally quiescent rudiments of the reserve army?
37221But are the alternatives really only as Weismann suggests?
37221But how can the doctrine of determinants be applied to it?
37221But how does this fabric, endowed with an architecture so complicated, actually produce the development of the adult from the egg?
37221Does it imply preformation or epigenesis?
37221How does Weismann attempt to reconcile his hypothesis of differentiating division with these facts?
37221In fact, the deepest consideration leads us again to the original question: Is embryonic development epigenesis or evolution?
37221Is it the new formation of complexity, or is it the becoming visible of complexity previously invisible to us?''
37221Is there no choice left for the naturalist?
37221What is development?
37221What would compel the rudiments disposed to activity according to the prearranged plan to become latent where they were no longer wanted?
37221Would it not spoil her of her beauty?
37221Would not this change for us the presence of Nature?
37221or is it only after the division that it becomes different, and in consequence of the action of outer forces upon the nuclei?
18521But how is this to be proved?
18521But the perplexing inquiry is, whence did the successive grades of animals emerge?
18521Does not this savour of a vain research, or of a laudable thirst for knowledge?
18521Does the author recoil from his work?
18521How after wards came this unformed mass to be like our earth, to be covered with motion and organization, with life and general felicity?
18521How different are the species of the red cabbage and the cauliflower; who would have expected them to be varieties of the wild_ brassica oleracea_?
18521Is it a geological fact, since life began, that the earth has_ simultaneously_ undergone throughout its entire surface the revolutions assigned to it?
18521It might be as reasonably asked, whence did the lower classes come?
18521Now the great question arises-- whence, by what power, or by what law, were these reiterated transitions brought about?
18521RESEMBLES, IN_ Invertebrata._ 1 Infusoria_ Traces of Infusoria_(?)
18521Suppose a planet formed by the author''s process, what kind of a body would it be?
18521Then says Reason, if they occur in orchidaceous plants, why should they not also occur in corn plants?
18521To the allusion in the last sentence there can be no demur; that there is"natural order or law"in creation who will contest?
18521Were the organized species of one geological epoch, by some long- continued agency of natural causes, transmuted into other and succeeding species?
18521What was its pre- existing state?
18521What, for instance, with the remotest semblance of certainty, can be predicated of the stellar orbs?
18521or were there an extinction of species, and a replacement of them by others, through special and miraculous acts of creation?
18521or, if that be answered, how or whence was that preceding state educed, for it, too, must have had one prior to it?
38584Although difficult to investigate in their precise economy, it is extremely probable( may I not say, certain?)
38584And hence we arrive at the question, is this so?
38584But how, it may be asked, does this_ primary adaptation_ to external conditions affect the question of specific development?
38584But how, it will be asked, can this be?
38584But what do these facts indicate?
38584But what does this prove, except that their capacity for advancement has a slightly wider compass than that of their allies?
38584But what, it may be inquired, is this great primary truth which the monomial system tends to violate?
38584But, what are the differences displayed?
38584But, what would be the many results of a diminution in the level of our imaginary range?
38584Can we therefore do so?
38584Hence our first stipulation, that of_ sufficient time_, is satisfied; and what is the result?
38584Taking the preceding considerations into account, the question will perhaps arise,--How then is a genus to be defined?
38584The only questions which would then appear immediately to suggest themselves, are: Under what circumstances do they principally fluctuate?
38584The question therefore arises,--Is it possible for them to_ be_ so joined?
38584The question therefore naturally suggests itself,--Is this in harmony with what we see; or, in other words, is it consistent with experience, or not?
38584The whole problem, in that case, does in effect resolve itself to this,--Where, and how, are the lines of demarcation to be drawn?
38584and how can they be so well acknowledged, either in principle or practice, as through the medium of a binomial nomenclature?
38584and why should it happen that organs which are apparently so necessary as a medium of subsistence, should be subject to inconstancy?
38584obscuroguttatus_ has adopted, since its first arrival from more northern latitudes over an unbroken[38] continent?
38584yet what naturalist_ now_ can draw an exact line of demarcation between them?
34077And that later dark scales shall appear at the exact spots to which the midrib must be prolonged?
34077But is it on that account necessarily wrong?
34077But it may be that Spencer''s assumption is the_ simpler_ one?
34077But the question remains, Why is this the fact?
34077Can not its fundamental ideas still be quite correct, and it itself therefore perfectly justified as a means of further progress?
34077Following the precedent of Waagen and Neumayr, Scott sharply discriminates between the inconstant vacillating variations which it is supposed[?]
34077For who can say precisely how large this number is?
34077How is it that the useful variations were always present here?
34077Now in what shall this process consist, if not in a modification of the constitution of the germ?
34077Now what does this mean?
34077Now what is it that has put so many genera of forest- butterflies and no others into positions where they could acquire this resemblance to leaves?
34077Or whether it is on the increase or on the decrease?
34077Or, suppose that they had really appeared, but occurred only in individuals, or in a small percentage of individuals?
34077Suppose that the useful colors had not{ 27} appeared at all, or had not appeared at the right places?
34077Surely my critics can not be ignorant of the prominent part which imagination has recently played in the exactest of all natural sciences-- physics?
34077The question arises, therefore, Have the principles just developed any claim to validity in the explanation of_ qualitative_ modifications?
34077Was it directive formative laws?
34077Where are the formative laws in such cases?
34077Where, for example, are the fossil remains{ 76} of the rejected individuals in the line of the Horses?
34077Why?
1043Are we evolving to- day?
1043But how can we see any trace of an Annelid ancestor in the vastly different frames of these animals which are said to descend from it?
1043But what higher types of life issued from the womb of nature after so long and painful a travail?
1043Can we suggest any reasons why brain should be especially developed in the apes, and more particularly still in the ancestors of man?
1043Do they point downward to lower forms, and upward to higher forms, as the theory of evolution requires?
1043Do we find a similar destruction of life, and selection of higher types, after the Pleistocene perturbation?
1043Do we find them at work in the Pleistocene?
1043Have we not said that nothing remains of the procession of organisms during half the earth''s story but a shapeless seam of carbon or limestone?
1043How did these civilisations develop in Asia, and how is it that they have remained stagnant for ages, while Europe advanced?
1043How much advance should we allow for these seven or fourteen million years of swarming life and changing environments?
1043How, then, do we account for the wings of the insect?
1043If humanity shared at first a common patrimony, why have the savages remained savages, and the barbarians barbaric?
1043If man is a progressive animal, why has the progress been confined to some of the race?
1043In particular, had it any appreciable effect upon the human species?
1043Is man the last word of evolution?
1043Must every step of future progress be won by fresh and sustained struggle?
1043Or ought we to regard this change of structure as brought about by a few abrupt and considerable variations on the part of the young?
1043The more important question is: How do astronomers conceive the condensation of this mixed mass of cosmic dust?
1043Was it not a singular coincidence that in ALL cases the intermediate organisms between one type and another should have wholly escaped preservation?
1043Was the eye shifted by the effort and straining of the fish, inherited and increased slightly in each generation?
1043What came before the star?
1043What is the meaning of stars whose light ebbs and flows in periods of from a few to several hundred days?
1043What is the origin of the great gaseous nebulae?
1043What is the origin of the triple or quadruple star?
1043What is their relation to the stars?
1043What was the origin of the fish?
1043Whence came the new race and its culture?
1043Why has progress been incarnated so exceptionally in the white section of the race, the Europeans?
1043Why should Europe and North America in particular suffer so markedly from a general thinning of the atmosphere?
29739And could a more striking illustration of the value of the study of insects possibly be instanced?
29739But how, as the generations of the flowers succeeded one another, did differences so striking come about?
29739But if what lies below the horse''s"knee"thus corresponds to the middle finger in ourselves, what has become of the four other fingers or digits?
29739But who ever formed an engaging acquaintance without wishing it might become a close friendship?
29739Can it be that both kinds of flowers are descended from forms resembling each other in want of grace and colour?
29739Do they believe that at each supposed act of creation one individual or many were produced?
29739Does nature descend to imposture or masquerade?
29739For what flower, however meek and lowly, could ever tell its story in plain black and white?
29739How did plants of so diverse families turn the tables on the insect world, and learn to eat instead of being themselves devoured?
29739Of what avail is all this seed if it falls as it ripens upon soil already overcrowded with its kind?
29739Or, instead of the camera, why not at first invoke the brush and colour- box?
29739PREFACE To gather stones and fallen boughs is soon to ask, what may be done with them, can they be piled and fastened together for shelter?
29739Were all the infinite numerous kinds of animals and plants created as eggs or seed, or as full grown?
29739What family tie is betrayed in all this?
29739What is the meaning of this strange travesty?
29739What new riches, therefore, may we not expect from the culture of the future?
29739What we desire to know is, is it a fact that evolution took place?
29739When Darwin was confronted with an organ or trait which puzzled him, he was wo nt to ask, What use can it have had?
29739When, so very easily, it can regale itself with food ready to hand why should it take the trouble to drudge for a living?
29739Which of us would thrive on milk at the rate of a pint to five hogsheads of water?
29739Who can explain what is the essence of the attraction of gravity?
29739Why, it may be asked, until recently did nearly all the most eminent living naturalists and geologists disbelieve in the mutability of species?
29739[ Illustration: Sage- flower and Bee] Bountifully to spread a table is much, but not enough, for without invitation how can hospitality be dispensed?
29739[ Illustration: Shut for Slaughter] Now the question is, How came about this strange and somewhat horrid means of livelihood?
29739[ Illustration: Twig of olive infected with Black Scale] Is it any wonder, then, that the fluted scales soon began to disappear?
29739and in the case of mammals, were they created bearing the false marks of nourishment from the mother''s womb?
6335What, then, is this order of Bimana of Blumenbach and Cuvier? 6335 ( asterisk) Equus( fossilis?). 6335 ( asterisk) Hippopotamus( major?). 6335 ( asterisk) Ursus( sp.?). 6335 Among these are the teeth of Elephas antiquus, determined by Dr. Falconer, and Rhinoceros leptorhinus? 6335 Are we then to conclude that differences in mental power have no intimate connection with the comparative volume of the brain? 6335 Cyclas( Pisidium) amnica var.(?) 6335 Cyclas( Pisidium) amnica var.? 6335 Equus asinus(?) 6335 In what manner then did the great lake- basins originate if they were not hollowed out by ice? 6335 Might not the births of new species, like the deaths of old ones, be sudden? 6335 Might they not still escape our observation? 6335 Ursus arctos? 6335 We might have anticipated a contrary leaning on the part of both, for to what does the theory of progression point? 6335 What evidence is there of such incessant variation in remoter times? 6335 Where are the memorials of all the intermediate dialects, which must have existed, if this doctrine of perpetual fluctuation be true? 6335 major? 59516 Are they a clan, then, or brothers?"
59516But tell me, is it still dark?
59516But when-- how long?
59516How will it be on Rigel Twelve? 59516 Is there a tribe of the dominant native species near here?"
59516Is this the house of Amos Sealilly, the factor of Aidennsport?
59516Quite dark?
59516The chief?
59516There are natives in the area then?
59516Was he lost in the swamp?
59516What about him?
59516What are you going to do to me?
59516What do you mean?
59516What do you want here?
59516What do you want?
59516What of Aidennsport?
59516What''s the matter?
59516What''s''inbreeding,''pa?
59516Where did you get that idea?
59516Where have you been?
59516Who do you suppose tipped him off?
59516Who is it?
59516Who''s there?
59516Why have we stopped?
59516Why not?
59516Will you care?
59516You all right?
59516You know them?
59516You refuse?
59516_ Is that you, Joseph?_"That''s pa,Joseph said.
59516_ Laura?_ Damn him! 59516 _ Who?_"Sealilly laughed.
59516_ Who_ is sure to see us?
59516And who are you, anyway?"
59516Do you know what a strategic withdrawal is?"
59516Do you think you will be able to take off?"
59516Do you want to see my crew?"
59516Does that sound so bad?"
59516He asked:"What about the spaceman?"
59516If she had failed to appear-- was hiding in the village-- might not others be hiding too?
59516Tell me, what time is it?"
59516That''s my pa. Say, are you a spaceman?"
59516Where is your father?"
59516Will I ever see you again?"
59516Will you guide me to the rocket?
59516Yet, what must we do?"
59516_ Escape from what?_ he wondered vaguely.
44582Apart from interferences of this class, are there any that may be reasonably invoked as modifying the course of inheritance?
44582Are we not then on safer ground in regarding the fixity of our species as a property inherent in its own nature and constitution?
44582As the collector passes from the plains to the Alpine region, how will he find the transition from one form to the other effected?
44582But is that what we do find?
44582But whence come the new dominants?
44582But will such analysis cover all or even most of the ordinary cases of specific diversity between near allies?
44582First came the broad question, were the facts of distribution consistent with the Doctrine of Descent?
44582First how did the form under consideration come into existence, and secondly, how did it succeed in maintaining itself so as to become a race?
44582How do they become integral parts of the organism?
44582How is it possible to reconcile these facts with the view that specific distinction has no natural basis apart from environmental exigency?
44582How then does it happen that the body of one of a pair of twins does not show a transposition of viscera?
44582If so, may we again make the same supposition in all similar cases?
44582In its most concrete form this problem is expressed in the question, how does a cell divide?
44582Is it itself a plant of hybrid origin?
44582Is it not time to abandon these fanciful expectations which are never realised?
44582May we suppose that some extinct wild species had them?
44582The first question is what is_ Oenothera Lamarckiana_?
44582The problem would remain, how is the distinctness of the two types maintained in the region of overlapping?
44582To do so is little gain, for we are left with the further problem, whence did those lost wild species acquire those dominants?
44582What is a living thing?
44582What more natural than to suppose that the permanent adaptations have been achieved by inherited summation of such responses?
44582What then are the factors themselves?
44582Whence came all these?
44582Whence do they come?
44582Whence, for example, came the power which is present in a White Leghorn of destroying-- probably reducing-- the pigment in its feathers?
58867Are you an entomologist?
58867''Well,''he exclaimed as I entered,''what do you think of this great event?
58867Are species fixed in nature?
58867Are species realities in nature?
58867Can we by actual observation determine the particular part of the protoplasmic substance that carries the hereditary qualities?
58867Did the rats of Egypt come, as the ancients believed, from the mud of the Nile, and do frogs and toads have a similar origin?
58867Do insects spring from the dew on plants?
58867Does it also contain some characteristics inherited from grandparents and previous generations?
58867Does life always arise from previously existing life, or under certain conditions is it developed spontaneously?
58867Has the great variety of forms existed unchanged from the days of their creation to the present?
58867Have the functions remained the same through the series?
58867Have they preserved their identity through all time, or have they undergone changes?
58867How is it possible to conceive of all the hereditary qualities being contained within the microscopic germ of the future being?
58867How shall this great diversity of life be accounted for?
58867If so, how far back in the history of the race does unbroken continuity extend?
58867If this position be admitted, the next question would be, What are the factors which have been operative to bring this about?
58867In reply to the question,"Why is the offspring like the parent?"
58867May it not be that all the intermediate stages are also inheritances, and, therefore, represent phases in ancestral history?
58867Schleiden''s Contribution.--Schleiden''s paper was particularly directed to the question, How does the cell originate?
58867The Biblia Naturæ.--It is time to ask, What, with all his talents and prodigious application, did he leave to science?
58867The critical question is, Have these all an individual ancestral form in nature?
58867The discovery of oxygen raises another question: Does prolonged heat change its vitalizing properties?
58867The question is, Are any acquired characters, physical or mental, transmitted by inheritance?
58867Under what conditions did they work, and what was their chief aim?
58867We may well inquire, Why did not his views take hold?
58867What becomes of the immense number of fishes that die?
58867What matter?
58867What were they like in appearance?
58867Why then should I contend with you?"
58867and what takes place within the parts that are actually alive?
58867or have they undergone a series of modifications, differentiations, and improvements more or less parallel with the morphological series?"
21781( a) What are the protovertebrae?
21781( b) How does the notochord originate in the frog?
21781( c) How are the vertebrae laid down in the tadpole?
21781( c) What bone in the rabbit is generally regarded as corresponding to the quadrate cartilage of the frog?
21781( d) How is the central nervous system developed in the frog, and( e) in the rabbit?
21781( d) In what important respects does the vascular mechanism of the frog differ from that of the fish, in correlation with the presence of lungs?
21781( e) In what important respects do the centra of the vertebrae of the frog, the dog- fish, and the rabbit differ from one another?
21781( e) What is the structure and origin of the ovarian follicle in the rabbit, and( f) of the ovarian stroma?
21781( f) What conclusions may be drawn from the facts stated as to the origin of the central nervous system in evolution?
21781( g) What is the"granulosa"and what the"zona pellucida"?
21781By what means would you determine whether a given nerve is motor or sensory?
21781Each also(? IX.)
21781From which of the primary cell- layers of the embryo are they respectively developed?
21781How are such structures interpreted?
21781How are they removed?
21781How do protozoa differ from higher animals( metazoa) as regards( a) structure,( b) reproduction?
21781How do you account for the primitive streak?
21781The Mullerian duct(?
21781There are supra- and basi- as well as ex- occipital bones; the para- sphenoid is(?
21781They finally appear to(?
21781To what series of cavities in the frog are the metapleural canals to be compared?
21781We have just mentioned that the heart- muscle is striated, but who can alter the beating of the heart by force of will?
21781What are bilateral symmetry and metameric segmentation?
21781What are the chief anatomical differences between a typical cranial, a spinal, and a sympathetic nerve?
21781What are the chief excretory products of an animal?
21781What are the functions of the skin?
21781What are the most characteristic points in the mammalian vertebral column?
21781What do you know concerning the functions of the several parts of the brain in the frog?
21781What explanation can you give of the differences between the two cases?
21781What is a gastrula?
21781What is a goblet cell?
21781What is a secretion?
21781What is a villus?
21781What is an excretion?
21781What is botryoidal tissue?
21781What is cartilage bone?
21781What is ciliated epithelium?
21781What is known of its functions?
21781What is membrane bone?
21781What is tendon?
21781What is the lymphatic system?
21781What is the notochord, and how is it developed in the frog?
21781What is the relation of respiration to the general life of the animal?
21781What is their function?
21781What other structures of the adult rabbit display a similar repetition of similar parts?
21781What parts are added to this in the higher type?
21781What structures have been regarded, as renal organs in amphioxus?
21781What substance is excreted by the renal organ of a frog, and what relation does this substance bear to the general life of the organism?
21781Whence comes the force?
21781Where does it occur in the rabbit?
21781Where does it occur?
21781With what lower type has the gastrula been compared?
21781c., calcar(?= a sixth digit).
26260Are any other beings ever found in such masses, but vermin? 26260 ***** In every field of thought then, two schools appear, that are divided on this: Must we forever be at heart high- grade simians? 26260 ***** In the far distant ages that lie before us what will be the result of this constant preoccupation with desire? 26260 ***** Yes, and even if we are permitted to have a long reign, and are not laid away with the failures, are we a success? 26260 A great blind force? 26260 A self- aware purposeful force then? 26260 Again, in the old Jewish Bible, what tempts the first pair? 26260 And how great a development could they attain to thereafter? 26260 And why? 26260 And would they have ever tried airships? 26260 Are they right? 26260 Bears or turtles? 26260 But wait: what is this in the corner? 26260 Could it have been a quite natural belief that they had already won? 26260 Dogs? 26260 Forget? 26260 Goats, then? 26260 If we owe this to passion, what follows? 26260 If we wanted to_ be_ Gods-- but ah, can we grasp that ambition? 26260 Is n''t it strange? 26260 Is that soul alive and loving? 26260 Is this one of the reasons why ants fight so much? 26260 Men, animals, insects-- what tribe of us asks any object, except to keep trying to satisfy its own master appetite? 26260 Or are we at heart something else? 26260 Or in industry: Why do factory workers produce more in eight hours a day than in ten? 26260 Our adventure may satisfy_ us_: does it satisfy Nature? 26260 Our airships may some day float over the hills of Arcturus, but how will that help us if we can not find the soul of the world? 26260 Pigs? 26260 Still, even in low social circles--_ THIRTEEN_ Are we or are we not simians? 26260 The elephant? 26260 What could you expect? 26260 What other such lust could exert great driving force? 26260 What was it then, that put them out of the race? 26260 When he added,Why, these crowds,"I turned and asked,"Why, what about them?"
26260Which group, we''d have wondered, would ever contrive to rule all the rest?
26260Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?"
26260Why do n''t we all die or give up when we''re sick of the world?
26260Why should n''t creeds totter when they are jerry- built creeds?
26260Why should you feel disappointment at something inevitable?"
26260Why?
26260Will it kill us or save us?
26260Will this trait and our insatiable curiosity interact on each other?
26260With us is it curiosity?
26260Wolves, whales, crows?
26260Would it after all be any more startling than our rise from the slime?
26260_ SEVENTEEN_ What are the handicaps this race will have in building religions?
26260endless interest in one''s environment?
26260or callous?
26260or cruel?
26260or dead?
7234And what is it that makes us familiar with them?
7234Are all mutations to be considered as limited to such periods?
7234Are the older ones now in a better condition than at the outset?
7234Are these types to be considered as elementary species, or only as individual differences?
7234Are they to be expected to be equal to the unique quality of the parent, or perhaps to be the same as the average of the whole unselected race?
7234Are we to conclude therefore that the main strain has died out?
7234But what is a prototype?
7234But why should they have done so, especially in cases of recent changes?
7234Could it be affected to such a degree as to gradually lose the inactive quality, and cease to be a double race?
7234Could not the plants of the second locality have arisen from seeds transported from the first?
7234Could the mutation be repeated?
7234ELEMENTARY SPECIES LECTURE II ELEMENTARY SPECIES IN NATURE What are species?
7234Had it been present, though dormant in the original sample of seed?
7234Had it commenced to mutate after its introduction into Europe, some time ago, or was it already previously in this state?
7234Had the germ of the mutation lain hidden through all this time?
7234Have they done so?
7234Have they really been gradually improved during the centuries of their existence?
7234How long had it been so?
7234How many different conceptions are conveyed by the terms constancy and variability?
7234How may this character have originated?
7234How[ 568] great is the chance for a single individual to be destroyed in the struggle for life?
7234If a distinct mutation from a given species is once possible, why should it not occur twice or thrice?
7234If we are right in this general conception, we may ask further, what is to be the exact place of our group of new evening- primroses in this theory?
7234In other words, would it have been possible to attain an average of 20 rows in a single experiment?
7234Is it the minute inspection of the features of the process in the case of the evening- primroses?
7234Is it the systematic study of species and varieties, and the biologic inquiry into their real hereditary units?
7234Is the mutability of our evening- primroses temporary, or is it a permanent condition?
7234Is the number of such germs to be supposed to be limited or unlimited?
7234It has frequently succeeded for practical purposes, why should it not succeed as well for purely scientific investigation?
7234Now who can assure us that the single root of a given beet is an average representative of the partial variability?
7234Or are we to base our hopes and our methods on broader conceptions of nature''s laws?
7234Or can the same mutation have been repeated at different times and in distant localities?
7234Or had an entirely new creation taken place during my continuous endeavors?
7234Or is it perhaps concealed among the throng, being distinguished by no peculiar character?
7234Or is the theory of descent to be our starting- point?
7234Perhaps as their more or less immediate result?
7234The first point, is the question, which seeds become double- flowered and which single- flowered plants?
7234Was it to be ascribed to some latent cause which might be operative more than once?
7234Was the observed mutation to be explained by a common cause with the other cases recorded by field- observations?
7234Was there some hidden tendency to mutation, which, ordinarily weak, was strengthened in my cultures by some unknown influence?
7234What are species and what are varieties?
7234What are the links which bind them together?
7234What has to be ascertained on such occasions to give them scientific value?
7234What is to guide us in the choice of the material?
7234What is to guide us in this new line of work?
7234When and how did it originate?
7234Why then are they not met with more often?
7234Will all of them do so, or only part of them, and how large a part?
7234Will they keep true to the reverted character, or return to the characters of the plant which bears the retrograde branch?
7234Would it be possible to obtain any imaginable deviation from the original type, and to reach independency from further selection?
7234Would the race become changed thereby?
16487( b)_ Nature of Protoplasm_.--What is this material, protoplasm?
16487--_The Author.__ CREATION OR EVOLUTION?
16487== The Cell==.--But what is this cell which forms the unit of life, and to which all the fundamental vital properties can be traced?
16487Are physical and chemical forces together sufficient to explain life?
16487Are the laws and forces of chemistry sufficient to explain digestion?
16487Are the laws of electricity applicable to an understanding of nervous phenomena?
16487Are there any forces in nature which are of a sort as to enable us to use them to explain the building of machines?
16487Are there limits to the application of natural law to explain life?
16487Are we any nearer to understanding how these vital processes arise?
16487But have we thus reduced these fundamental phenomena to an intelligible explanation?
16487But wherein does this knowledge of cells help us?
16487But who can doubt that the watch, as well as the water- wheel, is governed by the law of the correlation of forces?
16487Can the animal body be properly regarded as a machine controlled by mechanical laws?
16487Can the motion of the body, for example, be made as intelligible as the motion of the steam engine?
16487Can there be found something connected with living beings which is force but not correlated with the ordinary forms of energy?
16487Can this phase of living activity be included within the conception of the body as a machine?
16487Can we find a mechanical or chemical explanation of the origin of protoplasm?
16487Can we, by the use of these same chemical and physical forces, explain the activities taking place in the living organism?
16487Does nature, apart from human intelligence, possess forces which can achieve such results?
16487Has nature any forces for machine building?
16487Have we then any suggestion as to the method of the origin of this protoplasmic machine?
16487How could any changes in the environment of the individual have any effect upon this dormant material stored within it?
16487How were they built?
16487How, then, can biology be called a new science When it is older than all the others?
16487IS THE BODY A MACHINE?
16487IS THE BODY A MACHINE?
16487If the present is a key to the past in interpreting geological history, should not the same be true of this history of life?
16487In the first place, what are these properties?
16487Is it a fact that the only significance to the term vital is that we have not yet been able to explain these processes to our entire satisfaction?
16487Is it possible to discover these forces and comprehend their action?
16487Is the difference between what we have called the secondary processes and the primary ones only one of degree?
16487Is there a probability that the actions which we now call vital will some day be as readily understood as those which have already been explained?
16487Is there any method by which we can approach these fundamental problems of muscle action, heart beat, gland secretion, etc.?
16487Now what is the significance of all these facts for our discussion?
16487Or, on the other hand, are there some phases of life which the forces of chemistry and physics can not account for?
16487Shall it be the linin, or the liquids, or the microsomes, or the chromatin threads, or the centrosomes?
16487The germ material is derived from the parents, and, if it is simply stored in the individual, how could an acquired variation affect it?
16487What can we say in regard to these fundamental vital powers of the active tissues?
16487What has been its history?
16487What, then, is reproduction?
16487When the egg begins to divide does each of the first two cells still contain potentially the organization of the whole adult, or only one half of it?
16487Which of these is the actual physical basis of life?
16487Which of these various bodies shall we continue to call protoplasm?
16487Who could look upon the adaptation of the eye to light without seeing in It the result of intelligent design?
16487Why should they occur in living organisms, and here alone?
6882Are any other beings ever found in such masses, but vermin? 6882 Grind and confinement?"
6882So how can_ we_ help being that way? 6882 A great blind force? 6882 A self- aware purposeful force then? 6882 Again, in the old Jewish Bible, what tempts the first pair? 6882 And how great a development could they attain to thereafter? 6882 And why? 6882 And would they have ever tried airships? 6882 Are they right? 6882 Bears or turtles? 6882 But wait: what is this in the corner? 6882 Could it have been a quite natural belief that they had already won? 6882 Dogs? 6882 Forget? 6882 Goats, then? 6882 If we owe this to passion, what follows? 6882 If we wanted to_ be_ Gods-- but ah, can we grasp that ambition? 6882 In every field of thought then, two schools appear, that are divided on this: Must we forever be at heart high- grade simians? 6882 In the far distant ages that lie before us what will be the result of this constant preoccupation with desire? 6882 Is n''t it strange? 6882 Is that soul alive and loving? 6882 Is this one of the reasons why ants fight so much? 6882 Men, animals, insects-- what tribe of us asks any object, except to keep trying to satisfy its own master appetite? 6882 Or are we at heart something else? 6882 Or in industry: Why do factory workers produce more in eight hours a day than in ten? 6882 Our adventure may satisfy_ us:_ does it satisfy Nature? 6882 Our telescopes may some day disclose to us the hills of Arcturus, but how will that help us if we can not find the soul of the world? 6882 Pigs? 6882 Still, even in low social circles-- XIII Are we or are we not simians? 6882 The elephant? 6882 What could you expect? 6882 What other such lust could exert great driving force? 6882 What was it then, that put them out of the race? 6882 When he added,Why, these crowds,"I turned and asked,"Why, what about them?"
6882Which group, we''d have wondered, would ever contrive to rule all the rest?
6882Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?"
6882Why do n''t we all die or give up when we''re sick of the world?
6882Why should n''t creeds totter when they are jerry- built creeds?
6882Why should you feel disappointment at something inevitable?"
6882Why?
6882Will it kill us or save us?
6882Will this trait and our insatiable curiosity interact on each other?
6882With us is it curiosity?
6882Wolves, whales, crows?
6882Would it after all be any more startling than our rise from the slime?
6882XVII What are the handicaps this race will have in building religions?
6882Yes, and even if we are permitted to have a long reign, and are not laid away with the failures, are we a success?
6882endless interest in one''s environment?
6882or callous?
6882or cruel?
6882or dead?
28897Among animals of good blood, are there not always some which are superior to the rest?"
28897And secondly, if they so differ, how have they become thus adapted?
28897But can it be safely maintained that such changed conditions, if acting during a long series of generations, would not produce a marked effect?
28897But is this the case with smaller changes?
28897By what links can the Cochin fowl be closely united with others?
28897Can our prize- cattle and sheep be still further improved?
28897Can this parallelism be accidental?
28897Did He ordain that the crop and tail- feathers of the pigeon should vary in order that the fancier might make his grotesque pouter and fantail breeds?
28897Do you take care about breeding and pairing them?
28897Does it not rather indicate some real bond of connection?
28897How can we account for these facts?
28897How then could these admirably co- ordinated modifications of structure have been acquired?
28897How, again, can we explain to ourselves the inherited effects of the use or disuse of particular organs?
28897Is it an illusion that these recently improved animals safely transmit their excellent qualities even when crossed with other breeds?
28897May not the early closing of a deep wound, as in the case of the extirpation of the scapula, prevent the formation or protrusion of the nascent limb?
28897Now is it possible to conceive external conditions more closely alike than those to which the buds on the same tree are exposed?
28897There are two distinct questions: Do varieties descended from the same species differ in their power of living under different climates?
28897They might ask whether the half- wild Arabs were led by theoretical notions to keep pedigrees of their horses?
28897To recur to our former illustration of the Irish elk, it may be asked what part has suffered in consequence of the immense development of the horns?
28897What would the floriculturist care for any change in the structure of the ovarium or of the ovules?
28897Where can Flora''s Garland be found equal to those at Slough?
28897Where do high- coloured flowers revel better than at Woolwich and Birmingham?
28897Why have pedigrees been scrupulously kept and published of the Shorthorn cattle, and more recently of the Hereford breed?
28897Will a gooseberry ever weigh more than that produced by"London"in 1852?
28897Will a race- horse ever be reared fleeter than Eclipse?
28897Will future varieties of wheat and other grain produce heavier crops than our present varieties?
28897Will the beet- root in France yield a greater percentage of sugar?
28897unicorne, pubes_(_?_), and in two other unnamed species.
26438[ 22] Is it not probable that the best fliers would escape most frequently, or would pine most if kept confined? 26438 [ 52] What does this mean?
26438( 4) If use- inheritance has tamed the rabbit, why are the bucks still so mischievous and unruly?
26438And if use and disuse are the sole modifying agents in the case of the human jaw, why should men have any more chin than a gorilla or a dog?
26438Are we to suppose that the effect of the_ adult_ practice of parents was inherited at this early age?
26438Are we to suppose that the size of the human teeth is maintained by use at the same time that the jaws are being diminished by disuse?
26438But as artificial selection has lengthened the wings in some instances, why may it not have shortened them in others?
26438But could we rely upon the aid of use- inheritance if it really were a universal law and not a mere simulation of one?
26438Does individual improvement transmit itself to descendants independently of personal teaching and example?
26438Does it only transfer the newly- acquired weakness, and not the previous long- continued vigour?
26438How could the transmission of these varied effects to offspring be accounted for?
26438How is it that the subsequent inheritance of these effects has not been more satisfactorily observed and investigated?
26438How then can we rely upon use- inheritance for the improvement of the race?
26438If disuse has shortened them, as Darwin supposes, why has it also thickened them?
26438If injuries are inherited, why has the repeated rupture of the hymen produced no inherited effect?
26438If use- inheritance was not necessary in the case of Handel, whose father was a surgeon, why is it needed to account for Bach?
26438Is it not a significant fact that the alleged instances of use- inheritance so often prove to be self- conflicting in their details?
26438Is it not probable that permanent domestication was rendered possible by the inevitable selection of spontaneous variations in this direction?
26438Is use- inheritance, then, only effective for evil?
26438Under these circumstances how can we be sure of the actual efficacy of use- inheritance?
26438WOULD NATURAL SELECTION FAVOUR USE- INHERITANCE?
26438What will be the ultimate effect of plucking geese''s quills, and of the eider duck''s abstraction of the down from her breast?
26438Where is the necessity for even the remains of the Lamarckian doctrine of inherited habit?
26438Which effect of use does use- inheritance transmit in such cases-- the increased rate of growth, or the dilapidation of the worn- out parts?
26438Why are not the effects of this disuse inherited by the labourer''s infant?
26438Why is the Angora breed the only one in which the males show no desire to destroy the young?
26438Why is there not simultaneous variation in teeth and jaws, if disuse is the governing factor?
26438Why should it be thought incapable of reducing a pigeon''s wing or enlarging a duck''s leg?
26438Why should the non- transmission of that which was not transmitted be surprising?
26438Why then may not the ungainly hind- legs have been shortened by human preference independently of the inherited effects of disuse?
26438Will such modifications be inherited by the offspring of the modified individual?
26438Will the continued shearing of sheep increase or lessen the growth of wool?
26438Would shaving destroy the beard in time or strengthen it?
26438[ 24] How can increased use simultaneously shorten and thicken these bones?
26438_ NATURE SERIES_ ARE THE EFFECTS OF USE AND DISUSE INHERITED?
26438in spite of disuse?
20818Admitting then the existence of species, and of their successive evolution, is there anything in these ideas hostile to Christian belief?
20818Again, how explain the external position of the male sexual glands in certain mammals?
20818And even if one was so, what chance was there of the perpetuation of such a variation?
20818Are new species now evolving, as they have been from time to time evolved?
20818But are there any theological authorities to justify this view of the matter?
20818But how to obtain the beginning of such useful development?
20818But the question is, how have the highest kinds of animals and plants arisen?
20818But what conceptions does he offer us?
20818But why should not these changes take place suddenly in a state of nature?
20818For how can gemmules attach themselves to others to which they do not normally or generally succeed?
20818How, for example, does it explain the peculiar reproduction which is{ 211} found to take place in certain marine worms-- certain annelids?
20818How, once more, can we conceive the peculiar actions of the tendrils of some climbing plants to have been produced by minute modifications?
20818If it was that of the carinate birds, how did the struthious birds and Dinosauria independently agree to differ?
20818If it was that of the struthious birds, how did the pterodactyles and carinate birds independently arrive at the very same divergent structure?
20818If not, can anything that is positive, and if anything, what, be said as to the question of specific origination?
20818If so, in what way and by what conceivable means?
20818If, then, new species are and have been evolved from pre- existing material, must that material have been organic or inorganic?
20818In face of such a spirit, can it be wondered at that disputants have grown warm?
20818Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and will, as these transcend mechanical motion?"
20818Need we point out the contradictions which this position involves?
20818Now even if it were demonstrated that such is really the case, it may be asked, what is"slow and gradual"?
20818Now, if so,"how long would it take to obtain an elephant from a protozoon, or even from a tadpole- like fish?
20818Ought it not to take much more than a million times as long?
20818The one_ modus operandi_ yet suggested having been found insufficient, the question arises, Can another be substituted in its place?
20818The problem then is,"by what combination of natural laws does a new''common nature''appear upon the scene of realized existence?"
20818The question is, what is the cause of this"nutritional balancing"?
20818What do we not owe, for example, to the labours of the Alchemists?
20818What explanation can be offered of these phenomena?
20818What wonder then that such an excessively complex body should divide and multiply; and what parity is there between such a body and a gemmule?
20818[ 46] This process must have continued for ages constantly and perseveringly, and yet what is the fact?
20818_ i.e._ how is an individual embodying such new characters produced?
20818and if individuals alone exist, how can the differences which may be observed among them prove the variability of species?"
20556But,he asks,"should we conclude from this that there has necessarily occurred a universal catastrophe, a general overturning?
20556Can any of them be more striking than that which the_ kangaroo_ offers us? 20556 Can there be in natural history a consideration more important, and to which we should give more attention, than that which I have just stated?
20556Even if the invention of printing had been more ancient than it is, what would have resulted at the end of ten thousand years? 20556 Has God limited his creations to the existence of only matter and nature?
20556Have I not, at p.   412, put the vast distinction between you and Lamarck as to''necessary progression''strongly enough?
20556I ask what experienced zoölogist or botanist is there who has not thoroughly realized that which I have just explained to you? 20556 Is not cultivated wheat(_ Triticum sativum_) only a plant brought by man into the condition in which we actually see it?
20556Life is the result of organization.--(?)
20556What is a spiritual being? 20556 Where occur in nature our cabbage, lettuce, etc., in the condition in which we see them in our kitchen- gardens?
20556Why,he asks,"should not heat and electricity act on certain matters under favorable conditions and circumstances?"
20556[ 112] From whom did he get this idea that seeds or eggs are envelopes of all sorts of germs? 20556 8^o)? 20556 After paying his respects to Priestley, he asks:What, then, can be the reason why the views of chemists and mine are so opposed?"
20556Are they now found in this condition in nature?
20556But can we not assign him laws in the execution of his will, and determine the method which he has followed in this respect?
20556CHAPTER XV WHEN DID LAMARCK CHANGE HIS VIEWS REGARDING THE MUTABILITY OF SPECIES?
20556De toute part on acclame le grand naturaliste, et''il n''y a pas même une rue portant son nom aux environs du Jardin des Plantes?
20556Did Buffon''s guarded suggestions have no influence on the young Lamarck?
20556Do you not confound the seminary with the ancient college of Rue Poste de Paris, college now destroyed?"
20556Does not botany, which considers the other series, comprising the plants, offer us, in its different parts, a state of things perfectly similar?
20556How impossible will it be to distinguish and lay down a line beyond which some of the so- called extinct species have never passed into recent ones?"
20556How, he asks, can they reappear?
20556In which of these views did Buffon really believe?
20556Is it not more likely that these simple organisms are themselves regenerated?
20556Is it not the same as regards a number of animals which domestication has changed or considerably modified?
20556Is it satisfactorily proved, in fact, that species may be originated by selection?
20556Is not wheat(_ Triticum sativum_) a plant brought by man to the state wherein we actually see it, which otherwise I could not believe?
20556Qu''étaient nos connaissances à l''époque de De Lamarck sur les Polypiers?
20556WHEN DID LAMARCK CHANGE HIS VIEWS REGARDING THE 226 MUTABILITY OF SPECIES?
20556Was it negligence, was it the jealousy of his colleagues, was it the result of the troubles of 1830?
20556Was this period of six years, between 1794 and 1800, given to a reconsideration of the subject resulting in favor of the doctrine of descent?
20556What are the natural consequences of the influence and the movements of the waters on the surface of the globe?
20556Who can now say in what place its like lives in nature?
20556Why are only the two extremes living?"
20556[ 254]"Does Natural Selection play any Part in the Origin of Species among Plants?"
20556that none of the phenomena exhibited by species are inconsistent with the origin of species in this way?
20556that there is such a thing as natural selection?
2300''Why do the women wear these things?''
2300), passes over sexual selection, and asks,"What explanation does the law of natural selection give of such specific varieties as these?"
2300); Erithacus(?
2300; but who can say at what age this occurs in our young children?
2300A friend of his asked one of these men,"How is it that every one whom I meet is so fine looking, not only your men but your women?"
2300Are partridges, as they are now coloured, better protected than if they had resembled quails?
2300Are we not justified in believing that the female exerts a choice, and that she receives the addresses of the male who pleases her most?
2300Are we to suppose that these black marks and the crimson colour of the eyes have been preserved or augmented through sexual selection in the males?
2300At what age does the new- born infant possess the power of abstraction, or become self- conscious, and reflect on its own existence?
2300But can this be so confidently said of sexual selection?
2300But what are we to conclude with respect to certain birds in which, for instance, the eyes differ slightly in colour in the two sexes?
2300But what are we to say about the rudimentary and variable vertebrae of the terminal portion of the tail, forming the os coccyx?
2300Can it be believed that they would thus act to no purpose during their courtship?
2300Do the races or species of men, whichever term may be applied, encroach on and replace one another, so that some finally become extinct?
2300Does the male parade his charms with so much pomp and rivalry for no purpose?
2300Foetus of an Orang(?).
2300How are such races distributed over the world; and how, when crossed, do they react on each other in the first and succeeding generations?
2300How is it that there are birds enough ready to replace immediately a lost mate of either sex?
2300How often do we see birds which fly easily, gliding and sailing through the air obviously for pleasure?
2300How then are we to account for male mammals possessing mammae?
2300How, then, are we to account for the beautiful or even gorgeous colours of many animals in the lowest classes?
2300It may well be asked, could such artistically shaded ornaments have been formed by means of sexual selection?
2300It would be no advantage and some loss of power if each sex searched for the other; but why should the male almost always be the seeker?
2300May we then infer that man became divested of hair from having aboriginally inhabited some tropical land?
2300Must we attribute all these appendages of hair or skin to mere purposeless variability in the male?
2300Now do not these actions clearly shew that she had in her mind a general idea or concept that some animal is to be discovered and hunted?
2300Now, what is the difference between such actions, when performed by an uncultivated man, and by one of the higher animals?
2300Now, what must we conclude with respect to such sexual differences as these?
2300On the eastern coast, the negro boys when they saw Burton, cried out,"Look at the white man; does he not look like a white ape?"
2300On the west coast of Africa the little black- weavers( Ploceus?)
2300Or are we to suppose that the females of these several species especially require spurs for their defence?
2300Or does she exert a choice, and prefer certain males?
2300We are naturally led to enquire, where was the birthplace of man at that stage of descent when our progenitors diverged from the Catarrhine stock?
2300What ancient nation, as the same author asks, can be named that was originally monogamous?
2300What is this but energy and perseverance?)
2300What kind of a person would she be without the pelele?
2300What then are we to conclude from these facts and considerations?
2300What, then, are we to conclude in regard to the many fishes, both sexes of which are splendidly coloured?
2300When I say to my terrier, in an eager voice( and I have made the trial many times),"Hi, hi, where is it?"
2300Who can doubt that the refusal to fight a duel through fear has caused many men an agony of shame?
2300Why do not such spare birds immediately pair together?
2300Why should a man feel that he ought to obey one instinctive desire rather than another?
2300or why does he regret having stolen food from hunger?
2300who after asking, does man originate in a different way from a dog, bird, frog or fish?
22764And what are varieties but groups of forms, unequally related to each other, and clustered round certain forms-- that is, round their parent- species?
22764As man can produce and certainly has produced a great result by his methodical and unconscious means of selection, what may not Nature effect?
22764But have we any right to assume that things have thus remained from the beginning of this world?
22764But how, it may be asked, can any analogous principle apply in nature?
22764But in the intermediate region, having intermediate conditions of life, why do we not now find closely- linking intermediate varieties?
22764But may not this inference be presumptuous?
22764But what is meant by this system?
22764Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for climbing trees and for seizing insects in the chinks of the bark?
22764Can the principle of selection, which we have seen is so potent in the hands of man, apply in nature?
22764Do they believe that at each supposed act of creation one individual or many were produced?
22764Have we any right to assume that the Creator works by intellectual powers like those of man?
22764How will the struggle for existence, discussed too briefly in the last chapter, act in regard to variation?
22764How, then, comes it that such a vast number of the seedlings are mongrelized?
22764How, then, does the lesser difference between varieties become augmented into the greater difference between species?
22764It may well be asked how is it possible to reconcile this case with the theory of natural selection?
22764Look at a plant in the midst of its range, why does it not double or quadruple its numbers?
22764Now do these complex and singular rules indicate that species have been endowed with sterility simply to prevent their becoming confounded in nature?
22764Now what does this remarkable law of the succession of the same types within the same areas mean?
22764Thirdly, can instincts be acquired and modified through natural selection?
22764Were all the infinitely numerous kinds of animals and plants created as eggs or seed, or as full grown?
22764What can be more extraordinary than these well- ascertained facts?
22764What can be plainer than that the webbed feet of ducks and geese are formed for swimming?
22764What now are we to say to these several facts?
22764What reason, it may be asked, is there for supposing in these cases that two individuals ever concur in reproduction?
22764Who can explain why one species ranges widely and is very numerous, and why another allied species has a narrow range and is rare?
22764Why are not all organic beings blended together in an inextricable chaos?
22764Why do we not find great piles of strata beneath the Silurian system, stored with the remains of the progenitors of the Silurian groups of fossils?
22764Why does not every collection of fossil remains afford plain evidence of the gradation and mutation of the forms of life?
22764Why is not all nature in confusion instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined?
22764Why should not Nature have taken a leap from structure to structure?
22764Why should similar bones have been created in the formation of the wing and leg of a bat, used as they are for such totally different purposes?
22764Why should the brain be enclosed in a box composed of such numerous and such extraordinary shaped pieces of bone?
22764Why should the degree of sterility be innately variable in the individuals of the same species?
22764Why should there often be so great a difference in the result of a reciprocal cross between the same two species?
22764Why should this be so?
22764Why should this be so?
22764Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links?
22764Why, it may be asked, has the supposed creative force produced bats and no other mammals on remote islands?
22764Why, it may be asked, have all the most eminent living naturalists and geologists rejected this view of the mutability of species?
22764Why, it may even be asked, has the production of hybrids been permitted?
22764Why, on the theory of Creation, should this be so?
22764Would the just- hatched young occasionally crawl on and adhere to the feet of birds roosting on the ground, and thus get transported?
22764and in the case of mammals, were they created bearing the false marks of nourishment from the mother''s womb?
22764if that between America and Europe is ample, will that between the Continent and the Azores, or Madeira, or the Canaries, or Ireland, be sufficient?
19192And where are the Egyptians?
19192But where are the Israelites?
19192He who fashioned the eye, shall not He see? 19192 What is that?"
19192[ 23] Ought not this to settle the matter? 19192 [ 60] We have thus arrived at the answer to our question, What is Darwinism?
19192And which of you by taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
19192As the question, What is matter?
19192But do he and his associates let metaphysics and religion alone?
19192But may not this inference be presumptuous?
19192But what is life but one form of the organizing efficiency of God?
19192But what is to be thought of the special relation of Mr. Darwin''s theory to the truths of natural and revealed religion?
19192But who can believe that all the plants and animals which have ever existed upon the face of the earth, have been evolved from one such germ?
19192FOOTNOTES:[ 16] The question is not, as Mr. Wallace says,"How has the Creator worked?"
19192Have we any right to assume that the Creator works by intellectual powers like those of man?
19192Have we not here the manifestation of a mind as powerful as prolific?
19192He asks the question, What is Matter?
19192He set before himself a single problem, namely, How are the fauna and flora of our earth to be accounted for?
19192He starts the question, What is it that thinks?
19192He that formed the ear shall not He hear?"
19192How does Haeckel know that his senses do not deceive him?
19192How does he know that he can trust to the operations of his intellect?
19192How does he know that the universe is not a great phantasmagoria, as so many men have regarded it, and man the mere sport of chimeras?
19192How does he know that things are as they appear?
19192How then is it, that what was scientifically false in 1844 is scientifically true in 1864?
19192If any modification of structure could be the result of law, why not all?
19192If any varieties of color, why not all the varieties we see?
19192If life owes its origin to creative power, why not species?
19192If some self- adaptations should arise, why not others?
19192If we admit the similarity of structure in all vertebrates, must we admit the evolution of one from another, and all from a primordial germ?
19192If, then, the object perceived is self, what is the subject that perceives?
19192In this same article Mr. Huxley says:"Elijah''s great question, Will ye serve God or Baal?
19192Indeed, is not the whole faculty of reproduction intended to introduce a new life- process?
19192Is it not in its nature in the highest degree teleological?
19192Is it satisfactorily proved that species may[20] be originated by selection?
19192Is this all chance work?
19192It should be premised that this paper was written for the single purpose of answering the question, What is Darwinism?
19192Must we also admit their explanations and inferences?
19192Now, I ask Mr. Darwin himself, what interest has he in maintaining that natural selection is not guided-- not directed?
19192Now, as Darwin says it took millions of years to bring the eye to perfection, how long did it take to render a rudimental wing useful?
19192Or if it is the true self which thinks, what other self can it be that is thought of?
19192Ought not this to satisfy scientific men?
19192So it has been asked, if man can make a telescope, why can not God make a telescope which produces others like itself?
19192That is one thing; but the next thing is, does such a doctrine as that accord either with revelation or with the facts of science?
19192The question is, How are the contrivances in nature to be accounted for?
19192The question, therefore, What is Darwinism?
19192The whole question is, How are we to account for the innumerable varieties, kinds, and genera of plants and animals, including man?
19192This is simply asking, whether matter can be made to do the work of mind?
19192To what causes are the changes we witness around us to be referred?
19192Were they intended?
19192What are the origin, nature, and destiny of man?
19192What does he give us in exchange?
19192What interest has he in substituting accidental causes for every final cause?
19192What is attraction without molecules attracting each other?
19192What is contractibility without muscular fibre, or secretion without a secreting gland?
19192What is electricity without an electrified body?
19192What is his law of heredity?
19192What physical law, or uniformly acting force, operated to make the axe float at the command of the prophet?
19192What then are the earliest known vertebrates?
19192What was its origin?
19192What, it is asked, is motion without something moving?
19192When a man looks at a dissected insect and examines its strings of eggs, and asks, Whence are they?
19192When asked, Where are the immediate predecessors of these new species?
19192When asked, Where are their immediate successors?
19192When asked, what kind of evidence would satisfy him?
19192When it is further asked, Why are they there?
19192Whence do they come?
19192Why do n''t he say, they are the product of the divine intelligence?
19192Why is this?
19192Why is this?
19192Why should like beget like?
19192[ 14] What can the word"imagination"mean in this sentence, if it does not mean"Common Sense?"
19192an act of intelligence as sublime as provident?
19192or, Did they arise from the gradual accumulations of unintentional variations?
19192public domain works from the University of Michigan Digital Libraries) WHAT IS DARWINISM?
19192that none of the phenomena exhibited by species are inconsistent with the origin of species in this way?
19192the marks of goodness as infinite as wise?
19192the most palpable demonstration of the existence of a personal God, author of all this; ruler of the universe, and the dispenser of all good?
15707---- Aurea duræ Mala ferant quercus?
15707And does not your favorite dog expect you should give him his daily food, for his services and attention to you?
15707And that the productive living filament of each of those tribes was different originally from the other?
15707And thus barters his love for your protection?
15707And what can influence or govern these actions of the gland, but its associations or catenations with other sensitive motions?
15707Another objector may ask, Can the motion of an organ of sense resemble an odour or a colour?
15707Are not those palsies and apoplexies more dangerous which commence many days before the syzygies of the moon, than those which happen at those times?
15707As all our ideas are originally received by our senses, the question may be changed to, whether vegetables possess any organs of sense?
15707Can the skilful change of architecture in these birds and the sparrows above mentioned be governed by instinct?
15707Can this be effected by any specific attraction?
15707Could oiling or painting the skin give a check to this disease?
15707Could those symptoms be owing to very extensive adhesions of the lungs?
15707Do not palsies and apoplexies, which occur about the equinoxes, happen a few days before the vernal equinoctial lunation, and after the autumnal one?
15707Do not the dropsies of the thorax and pericardium frequently exist together, and thus add to the uncertainty and fatality of the disease?
15707Do the universal sweats distinguish the dropsy of the pericardium, or of the thorax?
15707Does not this evince that all our ideas are excited in the brain, and not in the organs of sense?
15707Does not this give an idea, that if they were both inoculated at the same time, that neither of them might affect the patient?
15707Does this circumstance distinguish the dropsy of the pericardium from that of the lungs and of the thorax?
15707For about what can the fetus deliberate, when it has no choice of objects?
15707For if the female be supposed to form an equal part of the embryon, why should she form the whole of the apparatus for nutriment and for oxygenation?
15707How do either of them know, that the other exists in their vicinity?
15707I ask, by what means are the anthers in many flowers, and stigmas in other flowers, directed to find their paramours?
15707I ask, in my turn, is the sex of the embryon produced by accident?
15707If it should be asked, what induces a bird to sit weeks on its first eggs unconscious that a brood of young ones will be the product?
15707If our recollection or imagination be not a repetition of animal movements, I ask, in my turn, What is it?
15707If there was but one object, as the whole creation may be considered as one object, then I can not ask where it exists?
15707In the dropsy of the pericardium does not the patient bear the horizontal or perpendicular attitude with equal ease?
15707In the same manner if it be asked--"When does a being exist?"
15707Is this curious kind of storge produced by mechanic attraction, or by the sensation of love?
15707May not muscular fibres exist in the retina for this purpose, which may be less minute than the locomotive muscles of microscopic animals?
15707Might not the foxglove be serviceable in hydrocephalus internus, in hydrocele, and in white swellings of the joints?
15707Might not the transfusion of blood be used in these cases with advantage?
15707Might not æther mixed with yolk of egg or with honey be given advantageously in bilious concretions?
15707Narcisco floreat alnus?
15707Nonne canis nidum veneris nasutus odore Quærit, et erranti trahitur sublambere linguâ?
15707Nonne vides, ut tota tremor pertentat equorum Corpora, si tantum notas odor attulit auras?
15707Now what cause can occasionally produce the male or female character of the embryon, but the peculiar actions of those glands, which form the embryon?
15707Shall we conclude from hence, that the variolous matter never enters the blood- vessels?
15707Shall we then say that the vegetable living filament was originally different from that of each tribe of animals above described?
15707They have organs of sense as of touch and smell, and ideas of external things?_ I.
15707This leads us to a curious enquiry, whether vegetables have ideas of external things?
15707What induces the bee who lives on honey to lay up vegetable powder for its young?
15707What induces the butterfly to lay its eggs on leaves, when itself feeds on honey?
15707What induces the other flies to seek a food for their progeny different from what they consume themselves?
15707When a body compresses any part of our sense of touch, what happens?
15707When puppies and kittens play together, is there not a tacit contract, that they will not hurt each other?
15707Where is this extensive canvas hung up?
15707Why does the pain of the primary part of the association cease, when that of the secondary part commences?
15707_ If common matter be contagious?_ 8.
15707_ Whether vegetables, possess ideas?
15707and does not a pain or weakness in both arms distinguish the dropsy of the thorax?
15707and hence the paucity of urine, and the great thirst, distinguish this kind of dropsy?
15707and is it not an immutable law, in animal bodies, that each gland can secrete no other, but its own proper fluid?
15707and thence can these diseases be distinguished from each other?
15707and those, which cover the upper parts of the body only, the anasarca of the lungs?
15707for how can we for a moment suspect that the mucous glands of the intestines could separate pure milk from the blood?
15707or is this a scorbutus pulmonalis?
15707or to what else in the animal system have they any similitude?
15707or where are the numerous receptacles in which those are deposited?
15707parce, liber?
15707the spirit of animation acts, Where does it act?
15707v. Are not the cold sweats in some fainting fits, and in dying people, owing to an inverted motion of the cutaneous lymphatics?
15707why is not the skin warm?
10060Again, if the Gibraltar indraught is the effect of evaporation, why does it go on in winter as well as in summer?
10060And this question subdivides itself into two:--the first, are we really contravening such conclusions?
10060And was it not possible, in the second place, that he had not sufficiently heated his infusions and the superjacent air?
10060And what has made this difference?
10060Are all the grandest and most interesting problems which offer themselves to the geological student, essentially insoluble?
10060Are modern geologists prepared to say that all life was killed off the earth 50,000, 100,000, or 200,000 years ago?
10060Are these Postmiocene immigrants, or Praemiocene natives?
10060Are they parasites in the zoological sense, or are they merely what Virchow has called"heterologous growths"?
10060But I imagine I hear the question, How is all this to be tested?
10060But are these corpuscles causes, or mere concomitants, of the disease?
10060But for what constituents of their bodies are animals thus dependent upon plants?
10060But has the advance of biology simply tended to break down old distinctions, without establishing new ones?
10060But how is this remarkable propulsive machine made to perform its functions?
10060But if this be the case, how much further back must we go to find the common stock of the monodelphous_ Mammalia_?
10060But is there any sound foundation for the three assumptions involved here?
10060But now comes the further inquiry, Where was the highly differentiated Sauropsidan fauna of the Trias in Palaeozoic times?
10060But what becomes of the coal which is burnt in yielding this interest?
10060But whither does all this tend?
10060But why does a muscle contract at one time and not at another?
10060But why in the world did not this distinguished Hegelian look at a nettle hair for himself, before venturing to speak about the matter at all?
10060But would not the meaning of the last line be better rendered"Developed in rain- water and in the warm vapours raised by the sun"?]
10060But, in this case it may be asked, why does not our English coal consist of stems and leaves to a much greater extent than it does?
10060Does Nature acknowledge, in any deeper way, this unity of plan we seem to trace?
10060Does it equally well apply to the Pliocene fauna when we compare it with that of the Miocene epoch?
10060For what might not have happened to the organic matter of the infusions, or to the oxygen of the air, in Spallanzani''s experiments?
10060Has the vaccine matter, by its irritative property, produced a mere blister, the fluid of which has the same irritative property?
10060How are the Cretaceous Ichthyosauria, Plesiosauria, or Pterosauria less embryonic, or more differentiated, species than those of the Lias?
10060How can animal life be conceived to exist under such conditions of light, temperature, pressure, and aeration as must obtain at these vast depths?
10060How did these isolated patches of a northern population get into these deep places?
10060How do similar reasonings apply to the other great change of life-- that which took place at the end of the Palaeozoic period?
10060How does this apparently anomalous state of things come about?
10060How is the existence of this long succession of different species of crocodiles to be accounted for?
10060How, in that case, could we conceive the action of the ferment on it?
10060However, it may be asked, is there any necessary opposition between the so- called"vital"and the strictly physico- chemical views of fermentation?
10060If I study a living being, under what heads does the knowledge I obtain fall?
10060Is he in the position of a scientific Tantalus-- doomed always to thirst for a knowledge which he can not obtain?
10060Is it not probable that teachers, in pursuing such studies, will be led astray from the acquirement of more important but less attractive knowledge?
10060Is palaeontology able to succeed where physical geology fails?
10060Is such a universal history, then, to be regarded as unattainable?
10060It is the question, why should teachers be encouraged to acquire a knowledge of this, or any other branch of physical science?
10060It might be true that Needham''s experiments yielded results such as he had described, but did they bear out his arguments?
10060No doubt it is a pretty and ingenious way of looking at the structure of any animal; but is it anything more?
10060Now does this mean that it may have been two, or three, or four hundred million years?
10060Now what has taken place in the course of this operation?
10060On what amount of similarity of their faunae is the doctrine of the contemporaneity of the European and of the North American Silurians based?
10060Or does the vaccine matter contain living particles, which have grown and multiplied where they have been planted?
10060Or may I not rather ask, is it possible for you to discharge your functions properly without these aids?
10060Or may it not be also considered as an organised body?
10060Or to turn to the higher Vertebrata-- in what sense are the Liassic Chelonia inferior to those which now exist?
10060Such being the facts with regard to the nature of yeast, and the changes which it effects in sugar, how are they to be accounted for?
10060Such being the facts with respect to the PÃ © brine, what are the indications as to the method of preventing it?
10060The first inquiry which arises plainly is, has it ever been denied that this period_ may_ be enough for the purposes of geology?
10060The great new question would be,"How does all this take place?"
10060The means of exploration being fairly adequate, what forms of life may be looked for at these vast depths?
10060Under these circumstances, what is the temperature of the Mediterranean?
10060Was it not possible, in the first place, he had not completely excluded the air by his corks and mastic?
10060What books shall I read?
10060What if_ Globigerina_ and the Coccoliths should not be the only survivors of a world passed away, which are hidden beneath three miles of salt water?
10060What is it originates, directs, and controls the motive power?
10060What is it, therefore, but the exclusion of germs?
10060What is the purpose of primary intellectual education?
10060What is the reason of the predominance of the spores and spore- cases in it?
10060What is the use, it is said, of attempting to make physical science a branch of primary education?
10060What is this wide- spread component of the surface of the earth?
10060What security was there that the development of life which ought to have taken place had not been checked or prevented by these changes?
10060When I examine it, what appears to be the most striking character it presents?
10060Where, then, must we look for its five- toed ancestor?
10060Who can suppose that the few fossils yet found in these regions give any sufficient representation of the Permian fauna?
10060Why does one whole group of muscles contract when the lobster wishes to extend his tail, and another group when he desires to bend it?
10060Why should not these proportions have been different during the Mesozoic epoch?
10060and what is the evidence on which those fundamental propositions demand our assent?
10060and whence did it come?
10060the second, if we are, are those conclusions so firmly based that we may not contravene them?
10060what are the fundamental assumptions upon which they all logically depend?
39969Who of all those powerful landowners and rich merchants could ever have dreamed that little buzzing insects could sting a great city to death? 39969 ( a) What is the mechanism of direction and control? 39969 ( b) What is the method of direction and control? 39969 ( c) What are habits? 39969 ( d) What are the organs of sense? 39969 ( e) How does alcohol affect the nervous system?_ LABORATORY SUGGESTIONS_ Demonstration._--Sensory motor reactions. 39969 BODY CONTROL AND HABIT FORMATION_ Problems.--How is body control maintained? 39969 Besides the discipline it gives me, is there anything that I can take away which will help me in my future life? 39969 Can you explain why?] 39969 Can you see how? 39969 Can you tell why? 39969 Could we tell anything about the food of a bird from its bill? 39969 Do bees visit flowers of the same kinds in succession, or fly from one flower on a given plant to another on a plant of a different kind? 39969 Do these birds all get their food in the same manner? 39969 Do they all eat the same kind of food?] 39969 Do vegetable foods contain much fat? 39969 Do you see why? 39969 Does gravity act on the growing root? 39969 Does the fungus appear to be transmitted from one tree to another near at hand? 39969 Exactly what does the bee do when it alights? 39969 Food, what is it? 39969 From which states do we get most of our yellow pine, spruce, red fir, redwood? 39969 Have you ever stopped to consider what life would be like on the earth if things did not decay? 39969 How are they formed and how broken? 39969 How do you account for that? 39969 How do you account for that?] 39969 How do you account for this?] 39969 How do you account for this?] 39969 How do you know? 39969 How does a bee alight? 39969 How is it that the bodily temperature does not differ greatly at such times? 39969 How many other insects alight on the flowers? 39969 How many unpaired fins are there? 39969 How might it divide to form a long thread made up of cells?] 39969 How might the root hairs take up this water?] 39969 How would you explain this?] 39969 If so, what is oxidized? 39969 If such a small experiment shows results like this, then what might a general clean- up of a city show? 39969 If the bee lights on a flower cluster, does it visit more than one flower in the same cluster? 39969 In how many instances can you discover the point where the fungus first attacked the tree? 39969 In what waters are the cod and herring fisheries, sardine, oyster, sponge, pearl oyster? 39969 In which dish does the more abundant growth take place? 39969 In which is decay taking place? 39969 In which tube are bacteria at work? 39969 In which tube did the greatest growth take place? 39969 In which tubes does growth take place most rapidly? 39969 Is it not logical to suppose that all living things, both plant and animal, release energy as the result of oxidation of foods within their cells? 39969 Of what practical value is it to me? 39969 Should feeble- minded people be allowed to marry? 39969 These questions might well be asked by any of the students: Why do I take up the study of biology? 39969 WHY STUDY BIOLOGY? 39969 WHY STUDY BIOLOGY? 39969 What are their uses? 39969 What are your conclusions?] 39969 What becomes of this water and the other substances that have been absorbed? 39969 What have we learned about combating typhoid since 1898?] 39969 What is digestion? 39969 What is the condition of blood leaving the ventricle to go to the cells of the body? 39969 What is the difference in your bill for the day?] 39969 What is the effect of filtering the water supply?] 39969 What other characters do you find?] 39969 What part of root is most responsive? 39969 What proportion of the cotton raising belt was infected in 1908?] 39969 What seems to become of the chromosomes?] 39969 What_ is_ the refuse in each case? 39969 Where are the heaviest forests of the United States? 39969 Where does it take place? 39969 Which cell shows greater division of labor?] 39969 Which culture has the more colonies of bacteria? 39969 Which is the best method of ventilation? 39969 Which of the above birds should be protected by man and why?] 39969 Which of the above- mentioned foods have the highest burning value?] 39969 Which part of the cell divides first? 39969 Which states produce the most hardwoods? 39969 Why a_ damp_ cloth? 39969 Why did not the seeds in the covered jar germinate? 39969 Why is it considered a good food?] 39969 Why is the oil placed on the surface of the water?] 39969 Why is this a method of dispensing impure milk? 39969 Why not try it if there are mosquitoes in your neighborhood? 39969 Why not try these out in forming some good habit? 39969 Why not try this in your own school? 39969 Why not?] 39969 Why should this be done?] 39969 Why, for example, is the flounder so cheap in the New York markets? 39969 Why? 39969 Why? 39969 Why? 39969 Why? 39969 Why? 39969 Why? 39969 Why? 39969 Why? 39969 Why? 39969 Why? 39969 Why? 39969 Why? 39969 Why?] 39969 Why?] 39969 Why?] 39969 Why?] 39969 [ Illustration: How far away can you read these letters? 39969 _ Demonstration experiment._--What are the best methods of ventilating a room? 39969 _ Demonstration experiment._--What causes the filling of air sacs of the lungs? 2009 And even if one was so, what chance was there of the perpetuation of such a variation?
2009But how to obtain the beginning of such useful development?"
2009But how, it may be asked, can any analogous principle apply in nature?
2009But if the same species can be produced at two separate points, why do we not find a single mammal common to Europe and Australia or South America?
2009But in the intermediate region, having intermediate conditions of life, why do we not now find closely- linking intermediate varieties?
2009But may not the areas of preponderant movement have changed in the lapse of ages?
2009But may not this inference be presumptuous?
2009But what is meant by this system?
2009But what other natural material could bees use?
2009But why, it may be asked, are certain forms treated as the mimicked and others as the mimickers?
2009Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for climbing trees and seizing insects in the chinks of the bark?
2009Can the principle of selection, which we have seen is so potent in the hands of man, apply under nature?
2009Do they believe that at each supposed act of creation one individual or many were produced?
2009Have we any right to assume that the Creator works by intellectual powers like those of man?
2009He may ask where are the remains of those infinitely numerous organisms which must have existed long before the Cambrian system was deposited?
2009How will the struggle for existence, briefly discussed in the last chapter, act in regard to variation?
2009How, then, comes it that such a vast number of the seedlings are mongrelized?
2009How, then, does the lesser difference between varieties become augmented into the greater difference between species?
2009Is this the case?
2009It may well be asked how it is possible to reconcile this case with the theory of natural selection?
2009Now do these complex and singular rules indicate that species have been endowed with sterility simply to prevent their becoming confounded in nature?
2009Now, what does this remarkable law of the succession of the same types within the same areas mean?
2009One writer asks, why has not the ostrich acquired the power of flight?
2009Or, again, why has not any member of the group acquired a long proboscis?
2009Thirdly, can instincts be acquired and modified through natural selection?
2009Were all the infinitely numerous kinds of animals and plants created as eggs or seed, or as full grown?
2009What can be more extraordinary than these well- ascertained facts?
2009What can be plainer than that the webbed feet of ducks and geese are formed for swimming?
2009What now are we to say to these several facts?
2009What reason, it may be asked, is there for supposing in these cases that two individuals ever concur in reproduction?
2009What shall we say to the instinct which leads the bee to make cells, and which has practically anticipated the discoveries of profound mathematicians?
2009What then checks an indefinite increase in the number of species?
2009Who can explain what is the essence of the attraction of gravity?
2009Who can explain why one species ranges widely and is very numerous, and why another allied species has a narrow range and is rare?
2009Why are not all organic beings blended together in an inextricable chaos?
2009Why does it not double or quadruple its numbers?
2009Why does not every collection of fossil remains afford plain evidence of the gradation and mutation of the forms of life?
2009Why have not apes acquired the intellectual powers of man?
2009Why have not the more highly developed forms every where supplanted and exterminated the lower?
2009Why is not all nature in confusion, instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined?
2009Why should not Nature take a sudden leap from structure to structure?
2009Why should the brain be enclosed in a box composed of such numerous and such extraordinarily shaped pieces of bone apparently representing vertebrae?
2009Why should the degree of sterility be innately variable in the individuals of the same species?
2009Why should the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils, in each flower, though fitted for such distinct purposes, be all constructed on the same pattern?
2009Why should there often be so great a difference in the result of a reciprocal cross between the same two species?
2009Why should this be so?
2009Why should this be so?
2009Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links?
2009Why, it has been asked, if instinct be variable, has it not granted to the bee"the ability to use some other material when wax was deficient?"
2009Why, it may be asked, has the supposed creative force produced bats and no other mammals on remote islands?
2009Why, it may be asked, until recently did nearly all the most eminent living naturalists and geologists disbelieve in the mutability of species?
2009Why, it may even be asked, has the production of hybrids been permitted?
2009Why, on the theory of Creation, should there be so much variety and so little real novelty?
2009Would the just- hatched young sometimes adhere to the feet of birds roosting on the ground and thus get transported?
2009and in the case of mammals, were they created bearing the false marks of nourishment from the mother''s womb?
39910''What was the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wildfowl?'' 39910 How long do you suppose that coach has been running round?"
39910Is there not a cause?
39910''What thinkest thou of his opinion?''
39910(_ Man._)"Once, in the flight of ages past, There lived a Man,--and who was he?
39910(_ Plants._)"Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
39910***** How is it possible to avoid this conclusion?
39910A month before that?
39910And how long has he been engaged in this piece of work?
39910And this earlier stem,--what of it?
39910And would not its presence there bear testimony to the lengthened ovipositor of the well- known brisk and busy fly, and to its remarkable habits?
39910And yet what are the coal deposits, and what the oldest sandstone, compared to the entire mass of the strata?
39910Are her efforts ineffectual?
39910At his fiat it appears; but in what condition?
39910At what stage of existence, then, could a bird, by possibility, have been created, which did not present distinct records of prochronic development?
39910But how do you know that either of these organisms was created in this mature stage?
39910But is it so?
39910But is the case otherwise in the animal world?
39910But is the life of_ the species_ a circle returning into itself?
39910But is there no other alternative?
39910But let us look at this strange cloth: what is it?
39910But perhaps you may say, What evidence is there that these ever had any predecessors?
39910But the red swimming atom;--whence came that?
39910But what former conditions?
39910But what is creation?
39910But when did you ever see the gorgeous- eyed Peacock feeding on a nettle, or the White on a cabbage?
39910But where was this flower?
39910But, finding it so, the question naturally arises,--Why here, and not elsewhere?
39910Can I do this?
39910Can we find any clue to his age?
39910Can you detect a flaw in this reasoning?
39910Did you see him suddenly bow down his head and lay a brick on the top of the last course?
39910Do you notice the frequent gulpings of the throat?
39910Do you observe these two round fleshy leaves, just peeping from the sandy earth?
39910Has not the physiologist irrefragable grounds for it, founded on universal experience?
39910Has the combined experience of mankind ever seen a solitary exception to this law?
39910Have they succeeded?
39910Have we any clue to the age of these corals, or to that of either of them, supposing we did not know that they have been created to- day?
39910Have we here any clue to the past history of the plant?
39910Have we, then, got rid of the evidence of past time, which we deduced from the successive changes through which the adult had passed?
39910Here, then, are no dead leaf- bases; here are no old historical scars:--have we any evidence of past time here?
39910How can they be accounted for?
39910How far can we ascertain its chronology?
39910How many years have these tusks occupied in attaining their present diameter and length?
39910In the first pair of developed leaves?
39910Is not this a case of surgical instruments enough to make you shudder?
39910Is not this an awful array of knives and lancets?
39910Is not this an evidence of age?
39910Is there not?
39910May they not have been entire?"
39910May we say six thousand years?
39910Now may we not say with confidence, that the sounding- winged insect looks back to the pupa, the pupa to the larva, the larva to the egg- boat?
39910Now, where shall we find it?
39910Shall we accept the_ antediluvian_, or the_ diluvian_ stratification?
39910Shall we multiply it by 100?
39910Shall we trace it back a little farther?
39910Shall we try to estimate the number of polypes that have been occupied in building this tree?
39910So far, then, we can with certainty trace back the history of this being, as an independent organism; but did his history then commence?
39910So says the physiologist; but is he not most egregiously in error, since this is the day of these lovely beings''creation?
39910The latter we have seen to be a fact: is the former an impossibility?
39910The_ chalaza_, we see, is twisted at each pole of the yelk- globe, until it resembles a piece of twine: what is the meaning of this?
39910There are certainly no concentric cylinders of timber here: can we trace a previous history of this?
39910This single infolding leaf, that is just shooting from the soil, so small and feeble,--what of this?
39910Very true: but what if the tramp had locked up his clock- work, and would not let you look at it?
39910Was a given drop of water created as a component particle of a running stream?
39910Was it called into being in the spring?
39910Was it created in the cloud?
39910Was it created in the lake?
39910Was it formed on the surface?
39910Was the navel of the created Man intended to deceive him into the persuasion that he had had a parent?
39910Was this the commencement of its existence?
39910Were the concentric timber- rings of a created tree formed merely to deceive?
39910Were the growth lines of a created shell intended to deceive?
39910What can be more irresistible than such evidence as this?
39910What can we make of his dentition?
39910What else could good men do?
39910What has made this tube?
39910What have you gained, then, in this case, by going back to the germ?
39910What is it?
39910What is the explanation of these marks?
39910What is the glorious train of the Peacock, all filled with eyes, but a false witness of the same kind?
39910What is this ciliated planule, and whence comes it?
39910What is this?
39910What light can it throw on our inquiry?
39910What means this curious depression in the centre of the abdomen, and the corrugated knob which occupies the cavity?
39910What period of time was requisite for the aggregation of coral structure to the perpendicular thickness of 2,500 feet?
39910What says the physiologist, who is able to read off these autographic records?
39910What shall we say to_ this_ singular phenomenon?
39910What was it a month ago?
39910What would be the amputation of your leg to this row of triangular scalpels, each an inch and a half in diameter?
39910When the inorganic crust of the globe was first cleft to contain rivers, whence came the water that flowed through the fissures?
39910Whence came it?
39910Whence came the egg?
39910Where then, in these species, can we possibly select a stage of life, which is not inseparably and even visibly connected with a previous stage?
39910Who could hesitate to assert that a history of past time is legibly written in the annulations of these stony tubes?
39910Would it not be closely parallel with the presence of fæces in the intestines of an animal at the moment of creation?
39910Would it not, as a matter of course, be found in the intestines?
39910Yet_ what_ would he have shown?
39910Yon Stag that is rubbing his branchy honours against a tree in the glade,--can we apply the same criterion to him?
39910master, what manner of great beasts are these?''
39910moved, too, by these powerful muscles?
39910that they were not originally the front rank as they are now?
39910the six_ ages_ or the six_ days_ of creation?
39910you were about to say"the infant,"or"the foetus,"or"the embryo,"probably; pray make your selection: which will you say?
69190 solidité de l''esprit Français, que devenez- vous?"
6919And is disapprobation a pleasure or a pain?
6919And the second is: How has it been perpetuated?
6919And, after all, is it quite so certain that a genetic relation may not underlie the classification of minerals?
6919Are natural causes competent to play the part of selection in perpetuating varieties?
6919Are these truths ultimate and irresolvable facts, or are their complexities and perplexities the mere expressions of a higher law?
6919But are there any theological authorities to justify this view of the matter?
6919But can we go no further than that?
6919But has this been done?
6919But how does this come about?
6919But in the next place comes a much more difficult inquiry:--Are the causes indicated competent to give rise to the phenomena of organic nature?
6919But is it not possible to apply a test whereby a true species may be known from a mere variety?
6919But is the analogy a real one?
6919But is the like true of the physiological characteristics of animals?
6919But suppose we prefer to admit our ignorance rather than adopt a hypothesis at variance with all the teachings of Nature?
6919But the question now is:--Does selection take place in nature?
6919But then, what do they mean by this last much- abused term?
6919But to how much has man really access?
6919But what does this attempt to construct a universal history of the globe imply?
6919But what if it is?
6919But what more have we to guide us in nine- tenths of the most important affairs of daily life than hypotheses, and often very ill- based ones?
6919But what proportion is there between the structural alteration and the functional result?
6919But where does the grass, or the oat, or any other plant obtain this nourishing food- producing material?
6919Can we find any approximation to this in the different races known to be produced by selective breeding from a common stock?
6919Did M. Flourens ever visit one of the prettiest watering- places of"la belle France,"the Baie d''Arcachon?
6919Do the physiological differences of varieties amount in degree to those observed between forms which naturalists call distinct species?
6919Do they cease to be so when the man ceases to be conscious of them?
6919Does that make it less virtue?
6919Does the Quarterly Reviewer really think that the"sensation"is the"agent"by which the other two phenomena are wrought out?
6919Elijah''s great question,"Will you serve God or Baal?
6919Finally, what are the mental powers which he reserves as the especial prerogative of man?
6919For what are the phænomena of Agamogenesis, stated generally?
6919Has it been created?
6919Has not his Paley told him that that seemingly useless organ, the spleen, is beautifully adjusted as so much packing between the other organs?
6919How do you know that the laws of Nature are not suspended during the night?
6919How do you know that the man who really made the marks took the spoons?
6919How then is the production of new species to be rendered intelligible by the analogy of Agamogenesis?
6919How, then, is mud formed?
6919If they are capable of sensation, emotion, and volition, why are they to be denied thought( in the sense of predication)?
6919If you find any record of changes taking place at_ b_, did they occur before any events which took place while_ a_ was being deposited?
6919In the first place, do these supposed causes of the phenomena exist in nature?
6919In the first place, what is a species?
6919In what manner can we conceive that the_ vis viva_ of the first ball passes into the second?
6919Is it any more than a grandiloquent way of announcing the fact, that we really know nothing about the matter?
6919Is it satisfactorily proved, in fact, that species may be originated by selection?
6919Is it then still profitable to the male organism to retain it?
6919Is there among the plants the same primitive form of organisation, and is that identical with that of the animal kingdom?
6919Is there any test of a physiological species?
6919Is there anything like the operation of man in exercising selective breeding, taking place in nature?
6919Is there no criterion of species?
6919Is this sound reasoning?
6919Nay, what becomes of an average country squire or parson?
6919Now, how many of those are absolutely extinct?
6919Now, is approbation a pleasure or a pain?
6919Now, the next problem that lies before us-- and it is an extremely important one-- is this: Does this selective breeding occur in nature?
6919Now, what is the effect of this oscillation?
6919Now, what is the result of all this?
6919O solidité de l''esprit Français, que devenez- vous?"
6919Or, suppose for a moment we admit the explanation, and then seriously ask ourselves how much the wiser are we; what does the explanation explain?
6919Or, to put it to the common sense of mankind, is the gratification of affection a pleasure or a pain?
6919Sed quis absconditos ejus recessus aut subterraneas abyssos pervestigavit?
6919Shall Biology alone remain out of harmony with her sister sciences?
6919So what is the use of what you have done?"
6919That is to say, how many of these orders of animals have lived at a former period of the world''s history but have at present no representatives?
6919The first is: How has organic or living matter commenced its existence?
6919The first question of course is, Do they thus return to the primitive stock?
6919What are these"dunes"?
6919What are those inductions and deductions, and how have you got at this hypothesis?
6919What if species should offer residual phænomena, here and there, not explicable by natural selection?
6919What if the orbit of Darwinism should be a little too circular?
6919What is Mr. Darwin''s hypothesis?
6919What is he doing?
6919What is it that constitutes and makes man what he is?
6919What is the value of the evidence which leads one to believe that one''s fellow- man feels?
6919What is this very speech that we are talking about?
6919What meaning has this fact upon any other hypothesis or supposition than one of successive modification?
6919What shall a man desire more than this?
6919What thoughts, idea, or actions are there that raise him many grades above the elephant or the ape?"
6919What was the state of matters in 1859?
6919What will be the result, then?
6919What will come of a variation when you breed from it, when Atavism comes, if I may say so, to intersect variation?
6919What, then, takes place?
6919Why are the animals and plants of the Galapagos Archipelago so like those of South America and yet different from them?
6919Why are those of the several islets more or less different from one another?
6919Why do species present certain relations in space and in time?
6919Why does not every collection of fossil remains afford plain evidence of the gradation and mutation of the forms of life?
6919Your friend says to you,"But how do you know that?"
6919or has it arisen by the power of natural causation?
6919or what is really the state of the case?
6919quam multa nobis animalia antea ignota offert novus orbis?
6919said his opponents;"but what do you know you may be doing when you heat the air over the water in this way?
6919that none of the phænomena exhibited by species are inconsistent with the origin of species in this way?
6919that there is such a thing as natural selection?
22728> If freely allowed, the characters of pure parents will be lost, number of races thus< illegible> but differences besides the< illegible>. 22728 ? 22728 ? 22728 Again we have to ask: how soon did any of these influences produce an effect on Darwin''s mind? 22728 And why should we not admit this theory of descent{514}? 22728 Are not all the most varied species, the oldest domesticated: who< would> think that horses or corn could be produced? 22728 Are not all those plants and animals, of which we have the greatest number of races, the oldest domesticated? 22728 But geologists consider Europe as a passage from sea to island to continent( except Wealden, see Lyell). 22728 But geologists consider Europe as a passage from sea to island to continent( except Wealden, see Lyell). 22728 But is there any evidence that the species, which surround us on all sides, have been thus produced? 22728 Can any distinct line be drawn_ between a race and a species_? 22728 Can it be said that the_ limit of variation_ or the number of varieties capable of being formed under domestication are known? 22728 Can it be shown that organic beings in a natural state are_ all absolutely invariable_? 22728 Degradation and complication? 22728 Dieffenbach) phanerogamic plants? 22728 Digitalis shows jumps in variation, like Laburnum and Orchis case-- in fact hostile cases. 22728 Europe we find equally European. 22728 Everyone will allow if every fossil preserved, gradation infinitely more perfect; for possibility of selection a perfect gradation is required. 22728 Finally, if we narrow the question into, why do we not find in some instances every intermediate form between any two species? 22728 Gradual appearance and disappearance of groups What is the Natural System? 22728 Hence more forms< on?> the island. 22728 Hence in past ages mere[ gaps] pages preserved{114}. 22728 Hence we should expect every now and then a wild form to vary{49}; possibly this may be cause of some species varying more than others. 22728 I believe this from numbers, who have lived,--mere chance of fewness. 22728 If so, is it so improbable that the deerhound and long- legged shepherd dog have so descended? 22728 In how few places in any one region like Europe will these contingencies be going on? 22728 In how few places in any one region like Europe will these contingencies be going on? 22728 Introduce here contrast with Lamarck,--absurdity of habit, or chance?? 22728 Introduce here contrast with Lamarck,--absurdity of habit, or chance?? 22728 Is there then any direct evidence in favour< of> or against this view? 22728 It is not clear in the original to how much of the passage the two? 22728 Justly argued against Lamarck?
22728Lastly, words inserted by the editor, of which the appropriateness is doubtful, are printed thus< variation?>.
22728N.B.--There ought somewhere to be a discussion from Lyell to show that external conditions do vary, or a note to Lyell''s works< work?>.
22728Now what evidence of this is there?
22728Other cases just< the> reverse, mountains of eastern S. America, Altai, S. India{ 124}: mountain summits of islands often eminently peculiar.
22728Other cases just< the> reverse, mountains of eastern S. America, Altai, S. India{ 124}: mountain summits of islands often eminently peculiar.
22728Probably double plants and all fruits owe their developed parts primarily to sterility and extra food thus applied{74}.
22728Probably double plants and all fruits owe their developed parts primarily to sterility and extra food thus applied{74}.
22728Recapitulation Why do we wish to reject the Theory of Common Descent?
22728Recent as the yet discovered fossil mammifers of S. America are, who will pretend to say that very many intermediate forms may not have existed?
22728So we see in grey- hound, bull- dog, in race- horse and cart- horse, which have been selected for their form in full- life, there is much less(?)
22728Some nearest species will not cross( crocus, some heath), some genera cross readily( fowls{68} and grouse, peacock& c.).
22728Such words are followed by an inserted mark of interrogation.
22728The
22728These animals therefore, I consider then mere introduction from continents long since submerged.
22728These generally very slow, doubtful though< illegible> how far the slowness would produce tendency to vary.
22728These generally very slow, doubtful though< illegible> how far the slowness would produce tendency to vary.
22728This point which all theories about climate adapting woodpecker{50} to crawl up trees,< illegible> miseltoe,< sentence incomplete>.
22728What then would be the natural and almost inevitable effects of the gradual change into the present more temperate climate{366}?
22728When therefore did the current of his thoughts begin to set in the direction of Evolution?
22728Who can answer the same question with respect to instincts?
22728Who will say what could thus be effected in the course of ten thousand generations?
22728Why again is the same species much more abundant in one district of a country than in another district?
22728Why on the ordinary theory should the Galapagos Islands abound with terrestrial reptiles?
22728Why on the theory of absolute creations should this large and diversified island only have from 400 to 500(?
22728Why were the plants in Eastern and Western Australia, though wholly different as species, formed on the same peculiar Australian types?
22728Will analogy throw any light on the fact of the supposed races of nature being sterile, though none of the domestic ones are?
22728[ In continent, if we look to terrestrial animal, long continued change might go on, which would only cause change in numerical number
22728and why should many equal- sized islands in the Pacific be without a single one{386} or with only one or two species?
22728e. the above mentioned parents> descendant; the parent more variable than foetus, which explains all.]
22728or have they descended, like our domestic races, from the same parent- stock?
22728p. 244, note 10.> What is it in domestication which causes variation?"
22728whether they should both be called genera or families; or whether one should be a genus, and the other a family{439}?
22728{ 123} Note in the original,"Would it be more striking if we took animals, take Rhinoceros, and study their habitats?"
22728{ 175} Between the lines occurs:--"one form be lost."
22728{ 236}< Note in original.> Seals?
22728{ 301}< Note in original.> Is this the Galeopithecus?
22728{ 320}< Note in original.> Neither highest or lowest fish(_ i.e._ Myxina or Lepidosiren) could be preserved in intelligible condition in fossils.
1909If, as I must think, external conditions produce little DIRECT effect, what the devil determines each particular variation?
1909In what,he asks,"does the advantage of a larger cerebral mass consist?"
190910.2 days alpha( beta, gamma) Actinium Emanation?
1909143 days alpha... Lead 207?
19092.15 minutes alpha, beta, gamma... Radium 225 about 2600 years alpha Radium Emanation?
190921 minutes no rays Radium- C?
190922 days beta, gamma... Actinium?
190928 minutes alpha, beta, gamma Radium- D?
19093 minutes alpha Radium- B?
19093.8 days alpha Radium- A?
19093.9 seconds alpha Actinium- A?
190935.7 minutes no rays Actinium- B?
19096 days beta( gamma) Radium- F?
1909?
1909Again and again, several roads are open to it, of which it chooses one-- why?
1909And after all what would animals that live in sand and mud do with tube- feet?
1909And finally, how is it that the same Hawk- moth caterpillars, which to- day show oblique stripes, possessed longitudinal stripes in Tertiary times?
1909And what do the successors of the mighty hero and genius think now in regard to the origin of the human race?
1909Are ordinary materials slightly radio- active?
1909Atomic Weight Time of half Radio- Activity decay Uranium 238.5 alpha Uranium- X?
1909Bates, April 4, 1861:"If I had to cut up myself in a review I would have( worried?)
1909But can you account for the males not having been rendered equally brilliant and equally protected?
1909But granted that such hybridisations were possible, would they have influenced the character of the fauna?
1909But how was it possible that such processes should occur in free nature?
1909But in all seriousness, why should indefinite and unlimited variation have been regarded as a more probable account of the origin of Adaptation?
1909But is it only desert and polar animals whose colouring is determined through adaptation?
1909But on what does this phenomenon, so big with consequences, itself depend?
1909But what are genetic characters?
1909But what part of it DOES NOT depend upon adaptation?
1909But, again, why?
1909But, it is asked, what of the direct effect of external conditions, temperature, nutrition, climate and the like?
1909By what lines of reasoning and research was he brought to regard"natural selection"as a vera causa in the process of evolution?
1909Can they decide which is to perish and which to survive?
1909Can we conjecture how events would have moved if the son of Philip of Macedon had been an incompetent?
1909Did he develop it himself or was it a miraculous gift with which he was endowed at his creation?
1909Did they believe in the immortality of the soul?
1909Do we not detect such a view in Comte''s sociology, and perhaps even in Herbert Spencer''s?
1909Even if the record of Adam''s action were to be taken literally there would still remain the question, whence had he this power?
1909Further than this, I would ask whether the same train of ideas does not also apply to the evolution of animals?
1909Has it increased or diminished in duration and complexity since organisms first appeared on the earth?
1909Has this method, which is spoken of as Geitonogamy, the same influence as crossing with pollen from another plant?
1909Have the results of his experimental investigations modified the point of view from which Darwin entered on his researches, or not?
1909Have we not here one of the conceptions which mark off sociology proper from the old philosophy of history?
1909How are new words added to a language in the present day?
1909How could insects which live upon or among green leaves become all green, while those that live on bark become brown?
1909How could the Ithomiine dress have developed in their case, and of what use is it, since the species would in any case be immune?
1909How could the green locust lay brown eggs, or the privet caterpillar develop white and lilac- coloured lines on its green skin?
1909How did these come to be so named?
1909How did this world grow up?
1909How far south did it ever extend and what is the latest date of a direct practicable communication, say from North Western Europe to Greenland?
1909How has our conception of social phenomena, and of their history, been affected by Darwin''s conception of Nature and the laws of its transformations?
1909How have the desert animals become yellow and the Arctic animals white?
1909How have they been received and followed up by the scientific and lay world?
1909How may this property be stated?
1909How was it that Darwin succeeded where others had failed?
1909How, when, and under what conditions was Darwin led to a conviction that species were not immutable, but were derived from pre- existing forms?
1909If Variation may be in any way definite, the question once more arises, may it not be definite in direction?
1909If only that has persistence which can be adapted to a given condition, what will then be the fate of our ideals, of our standards of good and evil?
1909If we give to"continually"a cosmic measure, can the fact be doubted?
1909In other words living matter must always have presented a life- cycle, and the question arises what kind of modification has that cycle undergone?
1909Intelligent missionaries of bygone days used to ply savages with questions such as these: Had they any belief in God?
1909Is it possible that the significant deviations which we know as"individual variations"can form the beginning of a process of selection?
1909Is not, then, the problem of knowledge solved by the evolution hypothesis?
1909Is religion then entirely a delusion?
1909Is the"natural"leak of a brass electroscope due to an intrinsic radio- activity of brass, or to traces of a radio- active impurity on its surface?
1909Is there not a word"bad"in English and a word"bad"in Persian which mean the same thing?
1909Is this the last word of human thought?
1909It is more important to ask, Why do these two worlds join?
1909It is not enough to hope( or fear?)
1909It is quite true that a similar substance covered the scales of the Reptiles, but why should it not have arisen among them through selection?
1909It solves the great problem: how could the finely adapted structure of the animal or plant body be formed unless it was built on a preconceived plan?
1909May not our present ideas of the universality and precision of Adaptation be greatly exaggerated?
1909Of what use to the diamond is its high specific gravity and high refrangibility, and to gold of its yellow colour and great weight?
1909Old men will reproach young men saying"Why do you not go to work?"
1909Or have we chanced upon an eddy in a backwater, opposed to the main stream of advance?
1909Or in what other way could it have arisen, since scales are also passively useful parts?
1909So Wangi climbed up the tree to ask Wailan Wangko,"How now?
1909That question was,''What is a species?''
1909The question is brought home to us when we ask what is a bud- sport, such as a nectarine appearing on a peach- tree?
1909The question is sometimes asked, Do the new lights on Variation and Heredity make the process of Evolution easier to understand?
1909The question is, then, if it has forms in which there is room for the new matter?
1909The real question is, Do they ever produce sterile offspring?
1909They are based on instinctive foundations ingrained in the nervous constitution through natural( or may we not say sexual?)
1909They belong to four different genera and three sub- families, and we have to inquire: Whence came this resemblance and what end does it serve?
1909This at once raises the much discussed question, how far garden- cultivation has led to the creation of new races?
1909This is unmistakably apparent from a letter to Fritz Muller dated February 22( 1869?
1909This life- power IS something; does it live in his heart or his lungs or his midriff?
1909To Darwin the question, What is a variation?
1909To quote a single example; I may put the question, what internal changes produce a transition from vegetative growth to sexual reproduction?
1909To this we must agree; but, it may be asked, do the general means of plant dispersal violate so obvious a principle?
1909To use a phrase of Romanes, can they have SELECTION- VALUE?
1909To what extent have the results of this vast activity fulfilled the expectations of the workers who have achieved them?
1909Turning to the other end of the radium series we are led to ask what becomes of radium- F when in turn it disintegrates?
1909Vaguely thinking over the enormous and constant destruction which this implied, it occurred to me to ask the question, Why do some die and some live?
1909Was it his breath?
1909What are the forms which surround them?
1909What are these variations in structure which succeed one another in the life- history of an organism?
1909What has been the fate of Darwin''s doctrines since his great achievement?
1909What have the philosophers done for language since?
1909What is a genetic or mutational variation?
1909What is that connotation?
1909What is the final non- active product of the series of changes we have traced from uranium through actinium and radium?
1909What is the reason of it?
1909What is the theological import of such a statement when it is regarded as essential to belief in God?
1909What justification is there for this view?
1909What proportion of thickness was sufficient to decide that of two variants of a limpet one should survive, the other be eliminated?
1909What then are Lamarck''s"acquired characters"?
1909What then is the problem we are dealing with?
1909Whence comes the idea that all measures inspired by the sentiment of solidarity are contrary to Nature''s trend?
1909Who is here the breeder, making the selection, choosing out one individual to bring forth offspring and rejecting others?
1909Why then is it so often entirely restricted to the female?
1909Why then should we feel content with the first hypothesis and not with the second?
1909Why was the migration of northern creatures southwards of far- reaching and most significant importance?
1909Why were the necessary variations always present?
1909Why, then, was it, that Darwin succeeded where the rest had failed?
1909Would those whom such conclusions repelled be content to oppose to nature''s imperatives only the protests of the heart?
1909about 40 years no rays Radium- E?
1909and connected therewith was the other question,''How did a species begin?''...
1909no rays Actinium- X?
1909or he is bleeding; is it his blood?
1909or the minute receptaculum seminis, or even the wings?
1909or"That brother belonging to me you have killed; why did you do it?"
5273Do we consider the deficiency of this sixth sense in man as the slightest evidence against design? 5273 What Is Darwinism?
5273Why do n''t he say,cries the theologian,"that the complicated organs of plants and animals are the product of the divine intelligence?
5273[ III-14] What does the difference between Mr. Darwin and his reviewer now amount to? 5273 A good deal may be made of this, but does it sustain the indictment? 5273 And if individuals alone exist, how can the differences which may be observed among them prove the variability of species?
5273And who that is convinced of this can long undoubtingly hold the original distinctness of turnips from cabbages as an article of faith?
5273And why not suppose that the finder of the watch, or of the watch- wheel, infers both design and human workmanship?
5273And would an explanation of the mode in which those woodpeckers came to be green, however complete, convince him that the color was undesigned?
5273Are they veritable Melchizedeks, without pedigree or early relationship, and possibly fated to be without descent?
5273As the intellectual connection here is realized through the material connection, why may it not be so in the case of species and genera?
5273As to the latter, is the common apprehension and sense of mankind in this regard well grounded?
5273Because natural, that is,"stated, fixed, or settled,"is it any the less designed on that account?
5273But does the one really exclude the other?
5273But how would it be if you saw the men doing the same thing over and over?
5273But how?
5273But is it a teleology, or rather-- to use the new- fangled term-- a dysteleology?
5273But now, as the genus and the species have no material existence, how can they vary?
5273But what is the position of the reviewer upon his own interpretation of these passages?
5273But what of the vast majority that perish?
5273But where is there the slightest evidence of a common progenitor?
5273But why not say the same of the aurochs, contemporary both of the old man and of the new?
5273But would any of them be preserved and carried to an equal degree of deviation?
5273But you will ask me,''Do you, then, reject the doctrine of evolution?
5273But, this being proved is it now very improbable that both were derived from the almond, or from some common amygdaline progenitor?
5273Can it be that there was no design, no designer, directing the powers of life in the formation of this wonderful organ?
5273Can the derivative hypothesis be maintained and carried out into a system on similar grounds?
5273Can we rightly reason from our own intelligence and powers to a higher or a supreme intelligence ordering and shaping the system of Nature?
5273Could she accomplish similar results when left to herself?
5273Do order and useful- working collocation, pervading a system throughout all its parts, prove design?
5273Do you accept the creation of species directly and without secondary agencies and processes?''
5273Does the investigation of physical causes stand opposed to the theological view and the study of the harmonies between mind and Nature?
5273First, Do they die out as a matter of fact?
5273For it is still to ask: whence this rich endowment of matter?
5273Have these changes modified in the slightest degree the supposed evidence of design?"
5273Have they had a career, and can that career be ascertained or surmised, so that we may at least guess whence they came, and how, and when?
5273Have we not similar grounds for inferring design in the supposed varieties of species, that we have in the case of the supposed species of a genus?
5273He set before himself a single problem-- namely, How are the fauna and flora of our earth to be accounted for?
5273How came they to be applied to natural selection by a divine who professes that God ordained whatsoever cometh to pass?
5273How could he know whether the blow was intentional or not?
5273How if you at length discovered a profitable end of the operation, say the winning of a wager?
5273How many of the land animals and plants which are enumerated in the Massachusetts official reports would it be likely to contain?
5273How moving them?
5273How, then, can we suppose Chance to be the author of a system in which everything is as regular as clockwork?
5273II Do Species wear out?
5273If any of us were born unlike our parents and grandparents, in a slight degree, or in whatever degree, would the case be altered in this regard?
5273If only individual chairs exist, how can the differences which may be observed among them prove the variability of the species?
5273If species do not exist at all, as the supporters of the transmutation theory maintain, how can they vary?
5273If that does not refer the efficiency of physical causes to the First Cause, what form of words could do so?
5273Is it compatible with our seemingly inbore conception of Nature as an ordered system?
5273Is there anything in Nature which in the long- run may answer to artificial selection?
5273It is asked, If the first was so created for its obvious and actual use, and the second for such use as it has, what was the design of the third?
5273More than this, is it not most presumable that an intellectual conception realized in Nature would be realized through natural agencies?
5273Now, if the eye as it is, or has become, so convincingly argued design why not each particular step or part of this result?
5273Now, is not all this a question of degree, of mere gradation of difference?
5273Now, the question is, Does this involve the destruction or only the reconstruction of our consecrated ideas of teleology?
5273Now, where is the design in all this?
5273Or are they now coming upon the stage-- or rather were they coming but for man''s interference-- to play a part in the future?
5273Or are they remnants, sole and scanty survivors of a race that has played a grander part in the past, but is now verging to extinction?
5273Or, pourquoi la reproduction est- elle possible, habituelle, feconde indefiniment, entre des etres organises que nous dirons de la meme espece?
5273Rather does not the proof extend to the intermediate species, and go to show that all four were equally designed?
5273Shall we quarrel with Science if she should show how these words are true?
5273Should we be less apt to infer creative wisdom if we had only four senses instead of five, or three instead of four?
5273So in the counterpart case of natural selection: must we not infer intention from the arrangements and the results?
5273So it has been asked, If a man can make a telescope, why can not God make a telescope which produces others like itself?
5273So the question comes to this: What will an hypothesis of the derivation of species explain which the opposing view leaves unexplained?
5273Such being the results of the want of adequate knowledge, how is it likely to be when our knowledge is largely increased?
5273The practical question will only be, How much difference between two sets of individuals entitles them to rank under distinct species?
5273The questions,"What will he do with it?"
5273This raises the question, Why does Darwin press his theory to these extreme conclusions?
5273To the triumphant outcry,"How can an organ, such as an eye, be formed under Nature?"
5273To which we reply by asking, Which does the question refer to, the category of thought, or the individual embodiment?
5273VIII WHAT IS DARWINISM?
5273Viewed philosophically, the question only is, Which is the better supported hypothesis of the two?
5273Was this the result of a mere Epicurean or Lucretian"fortuitous concourse"of living"atoms"?
5273Well, if this be so, why denounce the modern man of science so severely upon the other page merely for accepting the permission?
5273Were the old alchemists atheists as well as dreamers in their attempts to transmute earth into gold?
5273What are these probabilities?
5273What better evidence for such hypothesis could we have than the variations and grades which connect these species with each other?
5273What is now to be thought of the ordinary glandular hairs which render the surface of many and the most various plants extremely viscid?
5273What is the bearing of these remarkable adaptations and operations upon doctrines of evolution?
5273What more than this could be said for such an hypothesis?
5273What work will this hypothesis do to establish a claim to be adopted in its completeness?
5273What would come of it?
5273What, then, are organs not adapted to use marks of?
5273When plants are seen to move and to devour, what faculties are left that are distinctively animal?
5273Whence comes that of which all we see and know is the outcome?
5273Who shall decide between such extreme views so ably maintained on either hand, and say how much of truth there may be in each?
5273Why do all hypotheses of derivation converge so inevitably to one ultimate point?
5273Why is this, but that the link of generation has been sundered?
5273Why may not the new species, or some of them, be designed diversifications of the old?
5273Why not?
5273Why should these plants take to organic food more than others?
5273Why should time be lost by this preliminary and incomplete closing?
5273Why these two stages?
5273Why this continual striving after"the unattained and dim?"
5273Why, but because, by their complete extinction in South America, the line of descent was there utterly broken?
5273Would they doubt, or deny my intention, on that account?
5273XII DURATION AND ORIGINATION OF RACE AND SPECIES-- IMPORT OF SEXUAL REPRODUCTION I Do Varieties wear out, or tend to wear out?
5273[ VIII-1] The Nation, May 28, 1874) The question which Dr. Hodge asks he promptly and decisively answers:"What is Darwinism?
5273and if not, why not?
5273and if they varied it by other arrangements of the balls or of the blow, and these were followed by analogous results?
5273and"How far will he carry it?"
5273or, does it tend to atheism or pantheism?
5273use of sexual reproduction?
5273we would respond with a parallel question, How can a complex and elaborate organ, such as a nettle- sting, be formed under Nature?
27600And what buttons?
276001. of this genus?
276002. which may be termed a fever with slow pulse?
276003. and its slowness in paresis irritativa be caused by the debility being accompanied with due quantity of blood?
276006?
276007. of this Supplement?
276009.?
27600A blister on the part?
27600Acid of vitriol?
27600And hence he is led to enquire, whether the influence of fear might not be substituted in such cases to that of hope with advantage to the patient?
27600And lastly, does it not happen more frequently than is suspected from external injury?
27600And what are the ideas of colours, when they are excited by imagination or memory, but the repetition of finer ocular spectra?
27600And what the ideas of tangible objects, but the repetition of finer evanescent titillations?
27600Animal mucus, hartshorn jelly, veal broth, chicken water, oil?
27600Arsenic?
27600As calcareous earth abounds every where, is the want of phosphoric acid the remote cause?
27600As the cold air soon destroys them, after they are voided, could clysters of iced water be used with advantage?
27600Balsams?
27600Bartholomew?"
27600Bath of oil?
27600Blister on the part?
27600But what follows?
27600Can it be felt by the hand or by the patient before the disease is too great to admit of cure by the paracentesis?
27600Can the beginning vinous or acetous fermentation of the aliment in weak stomachs contribute to this effect?
27600Can the fluctuation in the chest be heard by applying the ear to the side, as Hippocrates asserts?
27600Cold Bath?
27600Conium maculatum?
27600Cool dress, diluting liquids?
27600Corroded by carbonic acid?
27600Could a warm bath made of decoction of bark, or a cold fomentation with it, be of service?
27600Could oxygene gas mixed with common air stimulate the languid system?
27600Could such a discharge be produced by strong errhines, and excite an absorption of the congestion of lymph in the dropsy of the brain?
27600Could the breathing of carbonic acid gas mixed with atmospheric air be of service?
27600Could the scarlet fever have been mistaken for the measles?
27600Could the swelled axillary gland be exsected?
27600Could they then have had a volcanic origin, or must they not rather have been blown from putrid marshes full of animal matter?
27600Could this also be of advantage in strangulated hernia?
27600Delphinium stavisagria?
27600Did the great fear promote the absorption of the matter, like the sickness occasioned by digitalis?
27600Digitalis?
27600Digitalis?
27600Digitalis?
27600Digitalis?
27600Do any ineffectual retrograde motions occasion the cold fits of agues?
27600Do balsams increase or lessen the heat of urine?
27600Do neutral salts increase the tendency to cough?
27600Do not neutral salts increase the tendency to cough by their stimulus, as they increase the heat of urine in gonorrhoea?
27600Do they crawl from one child to another in the same bed?
27600Do they escape from the body and become flies, like the bott- worm in horses?
27600Does it chemically destroy the stomach, and life in consequence?
27600Does not the softer pulse in some kinds of enteritis depend on the sympathy of the heart and arteries with the sickness of the stomach?
27600Does the enamel grow again when it has been perforated or abraded?
27600Does the matter from suppurating bones, which generally has a very putrid smell, produce hectic fever, or typhus?
27600Does the revivescence of these affected parts, or their torpor, recurring at intervals, form the paroxysms of these fevers?
27600Does this disease belong to aphtha?
27600Does this dropsy of the chest often come on after peripneumony?
27600Does this symptom of vomiting indicate, whether the disease be above or below the valve of the colon?
27600Fennel fæniculum, pareira brava, Cissampelos?
27600I remember a child, who on tasting the gristle of sturgeon, asked what gristle was?
27600I suppose the same must happen on compressing the hydrocephalus externus?
27600If air with less oxygen?
27600If chalybeates after evacuation?
27600If coffee or charcoal internally?
27600If powder of manganese?
27600If saturated solution of arsenic three or five drops twice or thrice a day for a week?
27600If small doses of opium?
27600In hysteric inversions of motion is some other part too much stimulated?
27600In other kinds of diabetes may not the remote cause be the too strong action of the cutaneous absorbents, or of the pulmonary ones?
27600Is a decoction of seneka- root of use?
27600Is camphor of use to relieve the ardor urinæ?
27600Is it because the mobility of the heart is less than that of the stomach, and the mobility of the capillaries greater?
27600Is it ever cured by making the patient sick by tincture of digitalis?
27600Is not the cardia ventriculi the seat of this disease?
27600Is not the liver always diseased previous to the hæmoptoe, as in several other hæmorrhages?
27600Is the seat or cause of the ileus always below the valve of the colon, and that of the cholera above it?
27600It may be asked, does the heat during the incubation of eggs act as a stimulus exciting the living principle into activity?
27600May not in such cases oil externally or internally be of service?
27600May not oil be carried up this duct, when a gall- stone gives great pain, by its retrograde spasmodic action?
27600May not this disease be referred to aphtha, or to dysentery?
27600Mezereon?
27600Might not flesh in small quantities bruised to a pulp be more advantageously used in fevers attended with debility than vegetable diet?
27600Might the head be bathed for a minute with cold water?
27600Nicotiana tabacum; tobacco?
27600Opium?
27600Or can not these, Not these portents thy awful will suffice?
27600Or the exhibition of crude quicksilver two ounces every half hour, till a pound is taken, be particularly serviceable in this circumstance?
27600Or to stimulate it into action?
27600Oxygene air?
27600Sarsaparilla?
27600Secretion of mucus of the bladder is increased by cantharides, by spirit of turpentine?
27600Should black spots in teeth be cut out?
27600Should the patient respire air with less oxygen?
27600Small electric shocks through the tonsils every hour?
27600Soda phosphorata?
27600Solution of arsenic?
27600Spirit of wine alone?
27600Strychnos nux vomica?
27600Ten grains of bone- ashes, or calcined hartshorn, twice a day, with decoction of madder?
27600The covetous man thought he gave good advice to the spendthrift, when he said,"Live like me,"who well answered him,----------"Like you, Sir John?
27600Transfusion of blood into a vein three or four ounces a day?
27600Was it a paralysis of the terminations of the veins, which absorb the blood from the tumid penis?
27600Was it stopped at last by the fainting fit?
27600Was this a stomachic, or an hepatic disease?
27600Was this owing to a greater exertion of volition than usual?
27600What is the life of man?
27600What the idea of sounds, but the repetition of finer auricular murmurs?
27600When one eye is affected, does the disease exist in the ventricule of that side?
27600Where there exists a torpor of the brain, might not very slight electric shocks passed frequently through it in all directions be used with advantage?
27600Will ether in clysters destroy ascarides?
27600Will fermenting vegetable juices, as sweet- wort, or sugar and water in the act of fermentation with yest, dissolve any kind of animal concretions?
27600Will the gastric juice of animals dissolve calculi?
27600With ipecacuanha, with smoke of tobacco?
27600Would a solution of gold in aqua regia be worth trying?
27600and their permanent revivescence establish the cure?
27600and thus produce increased pulmonary absorption by reverse sympathy, as it produces pale urine, and even stools, by direct sympathy?
27600cream?
27600ether frequently applied externally to the swelled tonsils?
27600fat?
27600or be made sick by whirling round in a chair suspended by a rope?
27600or by the stimulus of the tobacco?
27600or does it destroy the action of the stomach by its great stimulus, and life in consequence of the sympathy between the stomach and the heart?
27600or from the stimulus of indurated semen in the seminal vessels?
27600or may not the former circumstance sometimes depend on a concomitant affection of the brain approaching to sleep?
27600or of ether and water?
27600or of spirit of wine and water?
27600or of spring water further cooled by salt dissolved in water contained in an exterior vessel?
27600or pained from the want of stimulus?
27600or putting pieces of calculus down the throat of a living crow, or pike, and observing if they become digested?
27600or to the unusual facility of the passage of the blood through the pulmonary and aortal capillaries?
27600or vinegar?
27600or warm bathing for an hour at a time?
27600or with ether?
27600which might at least give room and stimulus to the affected part of the brain?
23427''Habit,''says the proverb,''is a second nature''; what possible meaning can this proverb have, if descent with modification is unfounded? 23427 Are we then to recognize no opinions as well founded but those which are generally received?
23427Beats not the bell again?--Heavens, do I wake? 23427 But what are we to say of instinct?
23427Did this cold hand, unasking Want relieve, Or wake the lyre to every rapturous sound? 23427 From those cold lips did softest accents flow?
23427How many animals are there not which lack sense and limbs? 23427 I ask by what means are the anthers in many flowers and stigmas in other flowers directed to find their paramours?
23427Shall we then say that the vegetable living filament was originally different from that of each tribe of animals above described? 23427 To speak seriously,"( au réel) he says( and why this, if he had always spoken seriously?
23427What author,he asks,"has ever pronounced more decidedly than Buffon in favour of the invariability of species?
23427Where can our many domestic breeds of dogs be found in a wild state? 23427 Which,"asks Mr. Spencer,"is the most rational theory about these ten millions of species?
23427[ 200] Who can tell what ideas a worm does or does not form? 23427 [ 229]"What, then,"continues Lamarck,"can be the cause of all this?
23427[ 320] How, let me ask again, isthe case of neuter insects""demonstrative"against the"well- known"theory put forward in the foregoing chapter?
23427[ 42] Can we suppose that Buffon really saw no more connection than this? 23427 [ 81] Does it not look as if Dr. Darwin had in his mind the very passage of Buffon which I have been last quoting?
23427[ 96] What, then, asks Buffon,_ is_ the use of the brain? 23427 _ Is there only one living principle?
23427''Nay, Madam,''was the answer,''what are fifteen years on the right side?''
23427..."How then can we detect the characters of the original race?
23427: a slit in one tendon to let another tendon pass through it?
23427And does not your favourite dog expect you should give him his daily food for his services and attention to you?
23427And that the productive living filament of each of those tribes was different from the other?
23427And those in which, after having admitted variability and declared in favour of it, he proceeds to limit it?
23427And thus barters his love for your protection?
23427And what is that situation?
23427And where, again, is your designer of beasts and birds, of fishes, and of plants?"
23427Are they the diverging ramifications of the living principle under modification of circumstance?
23427As all our ideas are originally received by our senses, the question may be changed to whether vegetables possess any organs of sense?
23427Assuredly, nothing can exist but by the will of this Supreme Author, but can we venture to assign rules to him in the execution of his will?
23427But assuredly if this theory[ the theory of descent with modification or that of"natural selection"?]
23427But how about plants?
23427But if he does not mean this, what becomes of natural selection?
23427But may not this inference be presumptuous?
23427But who objects to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity?
23427Can this be effected by any specific attraction?
23427Can we suppose that all the tricks, cunning, artifices, precautions, patience, and skill of animals are due to evolution only?
23427Can you show him more than I can?
23427Come, doctor, whither must we go; what must we investigate to- morrow, and the next day, and the next?
23427Concede what you please to these arbitrary and unattested superstitions, how will they help you?
23427Darwin?"
23427Does not such a consequence, I ask,_ prove repugnant alike to religion and common sense_?
23427Does not this involve the power of comparing dates, and the idea of a coming future, an''_ inquiétude raisonnée_''?
23427For how can a part which can not feel-- a soft inactive substance like the brain-- be the very organ of perception and movement?
23427For, what real knowledge can be drawn from an isolated pursuit?
23427Have they been narrated by men of intelligence and philosophers, or are they popular fables only?"
23427Have we any right to declare that the Creator works by intellectual powers like those of man?
23427Hence, when Mr. Darwin continues,"Who ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements?
23427How do either of them know that the other exists in their vicinity?
23427How many millions of germs has he not committed to the earth, before she has rewarded him by producing them?
23427How much natural history is likely to be found in such a lumber room?
23427How recognize the effects produced by climate, food,& c.?
23427How will our philosopher get at vision or make an eye?
23427How, again, distinguish these from those other effects which come from the intermixture of races, either when wild or in a state of domestication?
23427I dare not, lest--''''Emma, will you?
23427If the conditions of life have not varied, why should the species subjected to those conditions have done so?
23427If this part is not the source of our powers of motion, why is it so necessary and so essential?
23427In"Life and Habit,"I said:"To the end of time, if the question be asked,''Who taught people to believe in Evolution?''
23427Is Pantheism to absorb Rome, and, if so, what sort of a religious formula is to be the result?
23427Is he a man of letters making fun of science?
23427Is he a teleological theologian making fun of evolution?
23427Is he an evolutionist making fun of teleology?
23427Is he to be taken at his word?
23427Is it most likely that there have been ten millions of special creations?
23427Is it possible that Lamarck was in some measure misled by believing Buffon to be in earnest when he advanced propositions little less monstrous?
23427Is it so very much to hope that ere many years are over the approximation will become closer still?
23427Is not this to praise with faint damnation?
23427Is the mere power of feeling sensations sufficient to make them garner up food during the summer, on which food they may subsist in winter?
23427Is this curious kind of storge produced by mechanic attraction, or by the sensation of love?
23427Is this merely through want of training?
23427It may be asked, Why have a Church at all?
23427Must we not see here the design of an all- powerful Creator?
23427Of what date are those in which Buffon declares for variability?
23427On this account it may be well to ask the question, what, after all,_ is_''Natural Selection''?
23427On this dull cheek the rose of beauty blow, And those dim eyes diffuse celestial day?
23427Or is he a master of pure irony making fun of all three, and of his audience as well?
23427Or of the subtilty of owls, which husband their store of mice by biting off their feet, so that they can not run away?
23427Or, suppose the eye formed, would the perception follow?
23427Round that pale mouth did sweetest dimples play?
23427Should it not be enough that they do not injure each other nor stand in the way of each other''s fair development?
23427The fact has long been familiar; how has it been reconciled with infinite wisdom?
23427The horse, for example-- what can at first sight seem more unlike mankind?
23427Then why use it when another, and, by Mr. Darwin''s own admission, a"more accurate"one is to hand in"the survival of the fittest"?
23427This discourse is entirely devoted to the consideration of the question,"What is Species?"
23427This leads us to a curious inquiry, whether vegetables have ideas of external things?
23427What can be more widely contrasted than a newly- born child, and the small, semi- transparent gelatinous spherule constituting the human ovum?
23427What difference can we not see in this respect between civilized and uncivilized races, between the peasant girl, and the woman of the world?
23427What does the fact imply?
23427What induces the bee, who lives on honey, to lay up vegetable powder for its young?
23427What induces the butterfly to lay its eggs on leaves when itself feeds on honey?...
23427What inference could be more aptly drawn?
23427What was it that repelled him in Buffon''s system?
23427When it arrives, what is to happen?
23427When puppies and kittens play together is there not a tacit contract that they will not hurt each other?
23427Where are our bulldogs, greyhounds, spaniels, and lapdogs, breeds presenting differences which, in wild animals, would be certainly called specific?
23427Where are our cauliflowers, our lettuces, to be found wild, with the same characters as they possess in our kitchen gardens?
23427Where are the passages in which Buffon affirms the immutability of species?
23427Where can we find a more decided expression of opinion than the following?
23427Where can wheat be found as a wild plant, unless it have escaped from some neighbouring cultivation?
23427Where is he?
23427Where is this your designer?
23427Where, then, is your designer of man?
23427Which, I would ask, is the pessimist?
23427Who can doubt but that there will be a split even in the Church of England ere so many years are over?
23427Who led these vessels by a road so defended and secured?
23427Who made him?
23427Why do ants store food?
23427Why do we find in the hole of the field- mouse enough acorns to keep him until the following summer?
23427Why do we find such an abundant store of honey and wax within the bee- hive?
23427Why heave my sighs, why gush my tears anew?
23427Why is it considered so necessary that every part in an individual should be useful to the other parts and to the whole animal?
23427Why is it not as admissible in the second case as in the first?
23427Why not have said nothing about it?
23427Why not unite in community of negation rather than of assertion?
23427Why remind us here that the species which come nearest to the lion are so hard to distinguish?
23427Why should birds make nests if they do not know that they will have need of them?
23427Why should she not sometimes add superabundant parts, seeing she so often omits essential ones?"
23427Why, again, does it seem so proportionate in each animal to the amount of perceiving power which that animal possesses?
23427Yet, why should not this answer serve for the watch as well as for the stone?
23427[ 223]"What, then,"he asks,[224]"_ is_ species-- and can we show that species has changed-- however slowly?"
23427[ 317]"But is the upright position altogether natural, even to man?
23427[ 91]),"can we doubt that those animals whose organization resembles our own, feel the same sensations as we do?
23427and how is one to lay one''s hand upon the little that there may actually be?
23427or have they resulted from the combined agency of both?
23427or is Rome so to modify her dogmas that the Pantheist can join her without doing too much violence to his convictions?
23427or may it not be through wrong comparison on our own parts?
23427would have produced in course of generations a cat, or a cat a lion?
16729What is the wind?
16729What is this water, and where does it run?
16729What makes the waves in the sea?
16729Where does this animal live, and what is the use of that plant?
16729A hard- headed friend of mine, who was present, put the not unnatural question,"Then why do n''t you say so in your pulpits?"
16729Again, what simpler, or more absolutely practical, than the attempt to keep the axle of a wheel from heating when the wheel turns round very fast?
16729And by way of a beginning, let us ask ourselves-- What is education?
16729And how has it fared with"Physick"and Anatomy?
16729And if he honestly believes that, of what avail is it to quote the commandment against stealing, when he proposes to make the capitalist disgorge?
16729And in that case what is the value of M. Comte''s praise of him?
16729And is he consistent with fact?
16729And now, what is the ultimate fate, and what the origin, of the matter of life?
16729And the result?
16729And this leads me to ask, Why should scientific teaching be limited to week- days?
16729And this question subdivides itself into two:--the first, are we really contravening such conclusions?
16729And what has made this difference?
16729And what is the dire necessity and"iron"law under which men groan?
16729And whether, of these English books, more than one in ten is the work of a fellow of a college, or a professor of an English university?
16729And would not Terence stop his ears and run out if he could be present at an English performance of his own plays?
16729And, after all, is it quite so certain that a genetic relation may not underlie the classification of minerals?
16729And, as involved in, and underlying all these questions, how ought they to be educated?
16729And,_ à fortiori_, between all four?
16729Are all the grandest and most interesting problems which offer themselves to the geological student essentially insoluble?
16729Are modern geologists prepared to say that all life was killed off the earth 50,000, 100,000, or 200,000 years ago?
16729But I imagine I hear the question, How is all this to be tested?
16729But how does this classification differ from that of the scientific Zoologist?
16729But how is this remarkable propulsive machine made to perform its functions?
16729But if this apparently vital operation were explicable as a simple mechanism, might not other vital operations be reducible to the same category?
16729But is an education which ignores them all, a liberal education?
16729But is the analogy a real one?
16729But is the earth nothing but a cooling mass,"like a hot- water jar such as is used in carriages,"or"a globe of sandstone?"
16729But suppose we prefer to admit our ignorance rather than adopt a hypothesis at variance with all the teachings of Nature?
16729But the plague?
16729But what has Comtism to do with the"New Philosophy,"as the Archbishop defines it in the following passage?
16729But what has grown out of this search for natural knowledge of so merely useful a character?
16729But what is all we really know and can know about the latter phænomenon?
16729But what then?
16729But whither does all this tend?
16729But why does a muscle contract at one time and not at another?
16729Can it, therefore, be said that chemical analysis teaches nothing about the chemical composition of calc- spar?
16729Did M. Flourens ever visit one of the prettiest watering- places of"la belle France,"the Baie d''Arcachon?
16729Do they afford us the smallest ground for refusing to educate women as well as men-- to give women the same civil and political rights as men?
16729Do you think that the Christianity of the seventeenth century looks nobler and more attractive for such treatment of such a man?"
16729Does Nature acknowledge, in any deeper way, this unity of plan we seem to trace?
16729Does biology, whether"abstract"or"concrete,"occupy itself with any other form of life than those which exist, or have existed?
16729Does he speculate upon the possible movements of bodies which may attract one another in the inverse proportion of the cube of their distances, say?
16729Does the astronomer occupy himself with any other system of the universe than that which is visible to him?
16729FOOTNOTE:[ 1] Need it be said that this is Tennyson''s English for Homer''s Greek?
16729Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind''s throwing?
16729Finally, it occurs to me that, such being my feeling about the matter, it may be useful to all of us if I ask you,"What is yours?
16729For what are the phænomena of Agamogenesis, stated generally?
16729For what does the middle- class school put in the place of all these things which are left out?
16729For, after all, what do we know of this terrible"matter,"except as a name for the unknown and hypothetical cause of states of our own consciousness?
16729Goethe has condensed a survey of all the powers of mankind into the well- known epigram:--"Warum treibt sich das Volk so und schreit?
16729Has any one tried to found such an education?
16729How and when are we justified in making our next step-- a_ deduction_ from it?
16729How are the Cretaceous Ichthyosauria, Plesiosauria, or Pterosauria less embryonic, or more differentiated, species than those of the Lias?
16729How can a lover of literary excellence fail to rejoice in the ancient masterpieces?
16729How did Harvey determine the nature of the circulation, except by experiment?
16729How did Sir Charles Bell determine the functions of the roots of the spinal nerves, save by experiment?
16729How do we know the use of a nerve at all, except by experiment?
16729How does the meaning of the scientific class- name of"Mammalia"differ from the unscientific of"Beasts"?
16729How does the sensation of redness arise?
16729How is that all too brief period spent at present?
16729How is the existence of this long succession of different species of crocodiles to be accounted for?
16729How long would he be left uneducated?
16729How many among these instructed persons understand how the voice is produced and modified?
16729How many of us know that the voice is produced in the larynx, and modified by the mouth?
16729How then has this notion of the inexactness of Biological science come about?
16729How then is the production of new species to be rendered intelligible by the analogy of Agamogenesis?
16729I reply, why should the thing which has been called education do either the one or the other?
16729If I study a living being, under what heads does the knowledge I obtain fall?
16729If primary and secondary education are in this unsatisfactory state, what is to be said to the universities?
16729Is M. Comte consistent with himself in making these assertions?
16729Is any such unity predicable of their forms?
16729Is he in the position of a scientific Tantalus-- doomed always to thirst for a knowledge which he can not obtain?
16729Is it any more than a grandiloquent way of announcing the fact, that we really know nothing about the matter?
16729Is it both; or is it neither?
16729Is it built up of ordinary matter, and again resolved into ordinary matter when its work is done?
16729Is it satisfactorily proved, in fact, that species may be originated by selection?
16729Is it then the_ results_ of Biological science which are"inexact"?
16729Is palæontology able to succeed where physical geology fails?
16729Is such a universal history, then, to be regarded as unattainable?
16729Is there any test of a physiological species?
16729Is this a plant; or is it an animal?
16729Is this from any lack of power in the English as compared with the German mind?
16729It is not probable that teachers, in pursuing such studies, will be led astray from the acquirement of more important but less attractive knowledge?
16729It is the question, why should training masters be encouraged to acquire a knowledge of this, or any other branch of physical science?
16729Let us take these points separately; and, first, what great ideas has natural knowledge introduced into men''s minds?
16729May it not help us if it be pleased, or( as seems to be by far the more general impression) hurt us if it be angered?
16729No doubt it is a pretty and ingenious way of looking at the structure of any animal, but is it anything more?
16729Now does this mean that it may have been two, or three, or four hundred million years?
16729Now what does this mean?
16729O solidité de l''esprit Français, que devenez- vous?"
16729O solidité de l''esprit Français, que devenez- vous?"
16729On what amount of similarity of their faunæ is the doctrine of the contemporaneity of the European and of the North American Silurians based?
16729One is constantly asked, When should this scientific education be commenced?
16729Or may I not rather ask, is it possible for you to discharge your functions properly without these aids?
16729Or may it not be also considered as an organized body?
16729Or to turn to the higher Vertebrata-- in what sense are the Liassic Chelonia inferior to those which now exist?
16729Or, is the matter of life composed of ordinary matter, differing from it only in the manner in which its atoms are aggregated?
16729Or, suppose for a moment we admit the explanation, and then seriously ask ourselves how much the wiser are we; what does the explanation explain?
16729Quashie''s plaintive inquiry,"Am I not a man and a brother?"
16729Said I not rightly that we are a wonderful people?
16729Shall Biology alone remain out of harmony with her sister sciences?
16729Surely this quality must be in the thing, and not in our minds?
16729Surely, the principles involved in them are now admitted among the fixed beliefs of all thinking men?
16729Surely, there is nothing in these explanations which is not fully borne out by the facts?
16729The child asks,"What is the moon, and why does it shine?"
16729The first inquiry which arises plainly is, has it ever been denied that this period_ may_ be enough for the purposes of geology?
16729The great new question would be,"How does all this take place?"
16729The next question to which I have to address myself is, What sciences ought to be thus taught?
16729This is obvious from the mention of Catholicism,"demonstrates that Mr. Congreve has no acquaintance with the"Philosophie Positive"?
16729Under these circumstances it may well be asked, how is one mass of non- nucleated protoplasm to be distinguished from another?
16729What are these"dunes?"
16729What better philosophical status has"vitality"than"aquosity"?
16729What books shall I read?
16729What even, if such a being exists, is beyond the reach of his powers of delusion?
16729What have we to do in every- day life?
16729What if species should offer residual phænomena, here and there, not explicable by natural selection?
16729What if the orbit of Darwinism should be a little too circular?
16729What is it originates, directs, and controls the motive power?
16729What is it that happens?
16729What is the cause of this wonderful difference between the dead particle and the living particle of matter appearing in other respects identical?
16729What is the purpose of primary intellectual education?
16729What is the use, it is said, of attempting to make physical science a branch of primary education?
16729What is this wide- spread component of the surface of the earth?
16729What more harmless than the attempt to lift and distribute water by pumping it; what more absolutely and grossly utilitarian?
16729What ought they to be allowed, or not allowed, to do, be, and suffer?
16729What science can present greater attractions than philology?
16729What social and political rights have women?
16729What think you would Cicero, or Horace, say to the production of the best sixth form going?
16729What, then, is certain?
16729What, truly, can seem to be more obviously different from one another in faculty, in form, and in substance, than the various kinds of living beings?
16729When I examine it, what appears to be the most striking character it presents?
16729Where is such an education as this to be had?
16729Where is there any approximation to it?
16729Who knows but that the"& c."may include Hume?
16729Why does one whole group of muscles contract when the lobster wishes to extend his tail, and another group, when he desires to bend it?
16729Why should he not?
16729Why should we be worse off under one_ régime_ than under the other?
16729Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however important they may be, we do know nothing, and can know nothing?
16729Will it not be well to do towards it those things which would have soothed the man and put him in good humour during his life?
16729Will it not retain somewhat of the powers it possessed during life?
16729Will you give a man with this much information a vote?
16729Would such a catastrophe destroy the parallel?
16729Yet, if one has anything to say, what is easier than to say it?
16729_ Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence_?
16729and has its cooling been uniform?
16729and what is the evidence on which those fundamental propositions demand our assent?
16729and whence did it come?
16729that difference to which we give the name of Life?
16729that none of the phænomena exhibited by species are inconsistent with the origin of species in this way?
16729that there is such a thing as natural selection?
16729the second, if we are, are those conclusions so firmly based that we may not contravene them?
16729what are the fundamental assumptions upon which they all logically depend?
16729why call one"plant"and the other"animal"?
49818How will the struggle for existence--I quote, with some omissions, the words of Darwin--"act in regard to variation?
49818Now what,he asks,[IU]"does this greater consumption of time imply?
49818[ CR] How, then, does Mr. Wallace himself suppose that these secondary sexual characters have arisen? 49818 ***** Turning now to the lower animals, the first question that suggests itself is-- What are their capacities for pleasure and pain? 49818 ***** We may now pass on to consider the position of those who give an affirmative answer to the question-- Can the body affect the germ? 49818 147; habits, are they inherited? 49818 159 Is there sufficient evidence that it does? 49818 493 The origin of interneural variations 496 Are acquired variations inherited? 49818 After that, I say to him,''Will you die for the queen, like a loyal soldier?'' 49818 Am I using the wordreason"in an unnatural and forced sense?
49818And from what have psychoses, or states of consciousness, been evolved?
49818And how can selective association be a means of isolation?
49818And how does Mr. Darwin meet this difficulty?
49818And if not due to natural selection, to what can it be due, save inherited antipathy?
49818And if these spirits are still powerful to act, why not petition them to act in certain ways?
49818And out of what has it been evolved?
49818And the question still remains-- From what source comes this tendency to beauty?
49818And what are the physical possibilities?
49818And what do I mean by"real"?
49818And what help have we towards answering it?
49818And what is an eject?
49818And what shall we say of the colour- vision of invertebrates?
49818And what, we may now proceed to ask, is the physiological or kinetic aspect of this metakinetic process?
49818Another general question with regard to the feelings is-- With what condition or state of the bodily organization are they associated?
49818Are not the phenomena he analyzes still the same, still equally real?
49818Are the two as yet undifferentiated?
49818Are these germinal cells mysteriously different from all the other cells which have undergone differentiation?
49818Are these in any cases distinctive of species?
49818Are they not produced by the ghost of the departed enemy, by the spirit of the deceased ancestor?
49818Are we not justified in believing that the female exerts a choice, and that she receives the addresses of the male who pleases her most?
49818Are we surprised at the want of surprise on the part of the cow?
49818Are we, then, to leave the question as insoluble?
49818At what distance apart, on the most delicate part of the retina, can two points of stimulation be recognized as distinct from each other?
49818But are they inherited?
49818But can the body so modified affect the germ- cells which it carries within it?
49818But failing that, why not hay?
49818But has not human selection through preferential mating?
49818But here we open up an important question-- Where do we feel a sensation, such as, for example, that of pressure on the skin?
49818But how came it that the father took to athletics, and was enabled to develop so lithe and powerful a frame?
49818But how do they produce their effects?
49818But how is the influence of the body brought to bear on the germ?
49818But how, it is asked, can we accept it if its_ modus operandi_ is inexplicable?
49818But how, it may be asked, on this view, or on any continuity hypothesis, are the origin of variations and their transmission to be accounted for?
49818But in their inception may they not have been symbolic of predominants?
49818But is this true of all animals?
49818But is this true of all animals?
49818But it may be further asked-- What is the use of the segregation?
49818But may it not be of indirect disadvantage?
49818But suppose the conditions are similar: can there be divergence in this case?
49818But what dog?
49818But what led me to construct an object with these qualities?
49818But what, it may be asked, can be the purpose of an eye- structure which gives, not an image, but merely a spot of light?
49818But where is the nuclear fission in the formation of gemmules?
49818But who is to determine which?
49818But who shall dare thus to limit the possibilities of organic nature?
49818Can animals, we may ask, form such arbitrary associations?
49818Can it be supposed that the weaving of a cocoon by the caterpillar is mainly a matter of lapsed intelligence?
49818Can the principle of selection, which is so potent in the hands of man, apply under nature?
49818Can we be sure that there is really a summation of results-- that each generation is not affected_ de novo_ in a similar manner?
49818Can we conceive that, with organs so different, anything like a similar perceptual world can be elaborated in the insect mind?
49818Can we exclude the direct action of the more or less saline water, or the products of the unwonted food on the germinal cells?
49818Can we say that death-- as distinct from being killed-- is the natural heritage of every creature that lives?
49818Can we say that matter, when it reaches the complexity of the grey cortex of the brain, becomes at last self- conscious?
49818Can we suppose that it arose through the elimination of those ancestral animals which failed to perform this habit?
49818Complex psychoses have been evolved from less complex psychoses; these from simple psychoses; these, again, from-- what?
49818Do Arctic foxes tunnel in the snow for any other purposes?
49818Do all animals"move about and sleep"?
49818Do the clever foxes resemble the intelligent workman A, or the abstract reasoner B?
49818Does he believe that consciousness is an accompaniment of certain nervous processes in the grey cortex of the brain?
49818Does it support the view that the hen produces the egg or that the egg produces the hen?
49818Does the male parade his charms with so much pomp and rivalry for no purpose?
49818Evolution being continuity, associated with change, tending in certain directions, and accompanied by certain processes, how has it been effected?
49818Evolved from what?
49818Evolved from what?
49818Finally, if an acquired character, so called, is better developed in the child than in the parent, what is this but an example of variation?
49818For, if the plumage of the argus pheasant and the bird of paradise is due to the general laws of growth and development, why not the whole animal?
49818Fortunately for those who visit London( and who nowadays does not?
49818Granting its occurrence, is it effective?
49818Has he altered the reality of the phenomena themselves?
49818Have careful and reliable observers watched the foxes?
49818Have we not in them the signs for predominants not yet converted for the primitive utterers into isolates?
49818He is, however, perplexed by the question-- How can this be?
49818Here it is again reinforced and directed( who, at present, can say how?)
49818How can I here, by any metakinetic process, perceive the kinesis that is going on out there?"
49818How can that which is utterly and completely false to nature have had a natural evolution?
49818How can the results of analysis be more real than that which is analyzed?
49818How can these be explained?
49818How can we be sure that in the one case it was through fully attaining, in the other through failing to reach, the standard of taste?
49818How far does the dog construct a similar world?
49818How far is his symbolism the same as ours?
49818How far, we may ask, do such actions imply"a conscious knowledge of the relation between the means employed and the ends attained"?
49818How have this wealth, this diversity, this beauty, this manifold activity, which we summarize under the term"animal life,"been produced?
49818How is it that these gaudy and variable caterpillars, cream- coloured with orange and black markings, have escaped speedy destruction?
49818How the two sets of impressions are correlated and co- ordinated in insect- consciousness, who can say?
49818How were variations started in the first instance?
49818How, then, are we to account for our wide range of colour- sensation?
49818If Darwin''s sexual selection is to be thus superseded, why not Messrs. Darwin and Wallace''s natural selection?
49818If each lens thus gives an image, is not each the focussing apparatus of a single eye?
49818If each plastic embryo is moulded in turn by similar influence, how can we conclusively prove hereditary summation?
49818If fixed, how can differentiation occur in the same flock or herd?
49818If lapsed intelligence be excluded in these cases, why introduce it at all?
49818If mimicry in form and colour is due to natural selection, why not mimicry in habits and activities?
49818If panmixia alone can not, to any very large extent, reduce an organ no longer sustained by natural selection, to what efficient cause are we to look?
49818If the former, does it transfer its influence to the body- plasm during the life of the individual?
49818In the doorway Carlo stopped, and looked first up at his mistress and then into the store- room, as much as to say,''What can we think of this?''
49818Is it any injustice to the brutes to contend that their inferences are of the same order as those of these excellent practical folk?
49818Is it not because we believe in the practical unity of mankind?
49818Is it the germ- plasm or the body- plasm that is influenced by external stresses?
49818Is mind evolved from matter?
49818Is not the identification of neurosis and psychosis a begging of the question, unless the_ how_, the_ modus operandi_, is explained?
49818Is the object withheld or lost?
49818Is there any principle analogous to that of elimination which we have seen to be of such high importance in organic evolution?
49818Is there sufficient evidence to show conclusively that the body- cells have been modified, and have handed on the modification to the germ?
49818Is this a case of transmitted fibre and faculty?
49818It may be asked-- What advantage has such a view over realistic materialism?
49818May not these have been the stepping- stones from the perceptual predominants of animal man, to the conceptual isolates of rational man?
49818May not this structure be absorbing nutriment which would be more advantageously utilized elsewhere?
49818Must we, then, leave the question undecided?
49818Now, is this habit of elimination value?
49818Now, what is the guiding principle of the evolution and development of ideas in the world of their metakinetic environment?
49818Now, what was the nature of the construct framed at the bidding of the piercing howl?
49818Now, what would be the result of this alternation of good times and hard times?
49818Of what use would warning coloration be if it did not serve to suggest to the percipient the disagreeable qualities with which it is associated?
49818Once more, how is this increased power in that biceps muscle of the oarsman able to impress itself upon the sperms or the ova?
49818Or can we throw it into some form which is more general and less hypothetical?
49818Or, has the atmosphere been furnished with continuous fresh supplies of carbonic acid gas?
49818Secondly, some answer to the question-- How are the body- cells able to transmit their modifications to the germ- cells?
49818Seeing so great an amount of routine work going on around him, might he not be in danger of regarding all this as evidence of blind instinct?
49818Shall we leave this altogether out of account?
49818The question is-- Are they transmitted?
49818The question is-- Is each facetted organ an eye, or is it an aggregate of eyes?
49818The question is-- Which assumption yields the most consistent and harmonious results?
49818The question then naturally occurs-- How have these divergent forms escaped the swamping effects of intercrossing?
49818The question, then, is not-- How does the world mirror itself in the mind of the dog?
49818The standard may thus be maintained, but where is the possibility of progress?
49818The two factors in phenomena 331 The basis in organic evolution 336 Perceptual construction in mammalia 338 Can animals analyze their constructs?
49818Then at once arises the question-- Does life remain the same yesterday, to- day, and to- morrow?
49818There is pain: is it restored or gained?
49818There is pleasure: does it abide or remain constant?
49818This is but one mode of putting a very old question-- Does the hen produce the egg, or does the egg produce the hen?
49818To what other cause is the failure of heredity due?
49818To which category, then, does this hypothesis belong?
49818We may pass, then, to the question-- How?
49818What are its methods?
49818What are the characteristics of this growth?
49818What are the physiological effects?
49818What do we know, however, about the primitive tissue- differentiation of the earliest metazoa?
49818What guides the variation along special lines leading to heightened beauty?
49818What has guided it along these lines?
49818What is the evidence that adjusted nutrition can be inherited?
49818What is the proportion of those who adopt this device to those who gnaw through the string?
49818What is this mind which is said to be evolved?
49818What knows he of gravitation or the laws of the winds?
49818What knows she of anatomy or of physiology?
49818What shall we say concerning their constructs?
49818What shall we say of such cases?
49818What shall we say of such cases?
49818What, in similar terms, is the delicacy of sight?
49818What, on the principles above laid down, can we be said to know or have learnt about it?
49818What, then, is excluded?
49818What, then, is he-- his metakinetic self, not his kinetic material body-- to me?
49818What, then, is the essential nature of the respiratory process thus so differently manifested?
49818What, then, is the nature of this change?
49818What, then, it may be asked, does produce the egg?
49818What, then, we may now ask, is, on their view, the mode of origin of variations?
49818Whence comes the carbonic acid gas?
49818Wherein lies the utility of the divergence into two forms?
49818Which shall eventually prevail-- a spiritual interpretation of nature, a material interpretation, a monistic interpretation, or other, who shall say?
49818Whither goes the oxygen?
49818Who can decide the question between monist and materialist?
49818Who can say what will be the nature of the further evolution of any existing philosophical creed?
49818Who can tell?
49818Who dare arbitrate between the bishop and the professor?
49818Who shall say, however, what was passing through the mind of the dog in any of these three cases?
49818Why have these no similar tufts?
49818Why not assume that neural processes, when they reach a certain complexity, give rise to or produce consciousness?
49818Why not_ find_ hay inside; and, finding hay, why not enjoy the good provender thus provided?
49818Why should we be?
49818Why, then, rediscuss the question under these new terms?
49818[ KL] In both cases, the question to which an answer is suggested is not-- What variations will arise?
49818and if so, how?
49818but rather-- How far does the symbolic world of the dog resemble the symbolic world of man?
49818but-- What variations will survive?
49818or is their segregation the direct effect of their differential fertility?
49818or, to put the question in a more satisfactory form-- Are the limits of sensibility to light- vibrations the same in them as in us?
49818the twisted skull of flat- fish) produced?
49818why not_ all_ instinctive activities?
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18335Life is a wave,says Tyndall, but does not one conceive of something, some force or impulse in the wave that is not of the wave?
18335A philosopher can not well afford to assume the air of lofty indifference that the poet Whitman does when he asks,"Do I contradict myself?
18335A straight line has direction, that is mechanics; what direction has the circle?
18335After we have got the spark of life kindled, how are we going to get all the myriad forms of life that swarm upon the earth?
18335All individual life begins with the egg, but where did we get the egg?
18335Are biophysics and geophysics one and the same?
18335Are morphological processes identical with chemical ones?
18335Are the darting electrons any more vital than the shooting- stars?
18335Are we as wide of the mark as they were?
18335Are we not also certain that the pump sucks the water up through the pipe, and that we suck our iced drinks through a straw?
18335Are we not thinking of the far cry it is from man to inorganic nature?
18335Are you likely to extract Homer out of the rattling of dice, or the Differential Calculus out of the clash of billiard balls?"
18335As we go down the scale toward the inorganic, can we find the point where the living and the non- living meet and become one?
18335Before there was any protoplasm, what brought about the stupendous change of the dead into the living?
18335Biology, then, is only mechanics and chemistry engaged in a new rôle without any change of character; but what put them up to this new rôle?
18335But can atomic energy be translated into the motion of ponderable bodies, or mass energy?
18335But can we think of the atoms in a chemical compound as being next one another, or merely in juxtaposition?
18335But even in this case can we not say that the mainspring of the energy of living bodies is the life that is in them?
18335But if a body loses its vitality, its life, can we by the power of chemistry, or any other power within our reach, bring the vitality back to it?
18335But if life, with all that has come out of it, did not come by way of matter and energy, by what way did it come?
18335But is not this molecular force itself a form of solar energy, and can it differ in kind from any other form of physical force?
18335But is there not a previous question?
18335But living force is what we are trying to differentiate from mechanical force, and what do we gain by confounding the two?
18335But only the green leaf can produce chlorophyll; and yet, which was first, the leaf or the chlorophyll?
18335But what is life?
18335But what is science but a kind of anthropomorphism?
18335But what is the secret of the cell itself?
18335But without some indwelling principle of development and progress, how could the new wants arise?
18335But would these accidental peculiarities be constant?
18335Can a flash of radium emanations on a zinc- sulphide plate kindle the precious spark?
18335Can a part be greater than the whole?
18335Can our faith in the divinity of matter measure up to this standard?
18335Can oxygen be anything but oxygen, or carbon anything but carbon?
18335Can soul arise out of a soulless universe?
18335Can the psychic dominate the physical out of which it came?
18335Can there be any halfway house between something and nothing?
18335Can we do any better than to call it the Spirit of the Body?
18335Can we evoke life from the omnipotent ether, or see it arise in the whirling stream of atoms and electrons?
18335Can we make the dead live?
18335Can we on any better philosophical grounds say that there is a principle of vitality, though the earth swarms with living beings?
18335Can we see where the tremendous change from the non- living to the living takes place?
18335Chemical changes, undoubtedly, but what brings about the chemical changes?
18335Clay is certainly the physical basis of the potter''s art, but would there be any pottery in the world if it contained only clay?
18335Could any vitalist, or Bergsonian idealist have stated his case better?
18335Could one by analyzing a hive of bees find out the secret of its organization-- its unity as an aggregate of living insects?
18335Could we have foretold the future of any form of life from its remote beginnings?
18335Did it arise spontaneously out of dead matter?
18335Did not Emerson in his first poem,"The Sphinx,"sing of Journeying atoms, Primordial wholes?
18335Did the earth itself bring forth a man, or did something breathe upon the inert clay till it became a living spirit?
18335Do accidents happen millions of times in the same way?
18335Do we not have to think of the potter?
18335Do we not rather have to think of them as identified with one another to an extent that has no parallel in the world of ponderable bodies?
18335Do we not then have to supply a non- chemical, a non- physical force or factor to account for the living body?
18335Do we not want inheritance and adaptation accounted for?
18335Does any chemical process give the mind any separate reality to take hold of?
18335Does not a bird possess a higher degree of life than a mollusk, or a turtle?
18335Does not a man imply a cooler planet and a greater depth and refinement of soil than a dinosaur?
18335Does the river- bed account for the river?
18335Does the sequence of life have no end?
18335Force was certainly expended in doing this, and if the life in the sprouting nut did not exert it or expend it, what did?
18335Had the air been differently constituted, would not our lungs have been different?
18335Had we known any of the animal forms in his line of ascent, could we have foretold man as we know him to- day?
18335Has the"fitness of the environment"ever been questioned?
18335Has this"ultimate molecule of life"any more scientific or philosophical validity than the old conception of a vital force?
18335How are we going to get man with physics and chemistry alone?
18335How are we going to get these things out of the old physics and chemistry without some new factor or agent or force?
18335How are we going to get this tremendous drama of evolution out of mere protoplasm from the bottom of the old geologic seas?
18335How can a body adapt itself to its environment unless it possess an inherent, plastic, changing, and adaptive principle?
18335How can they be any other?
18335How could it be otherwise?
18335How else could it come?
18335How is it that a million muscle cells remain alike, collectively ready to respond to a nerve impulse?"
18335How many millions or trillions of times does the rose divide its heart in the perfume it sheds so freely upon the air?
18335II Where, then, shall we look for the key to this mysterious thing we call life?
18335III When we are bold enough to ask the question, Is life an addition to matter or an evolution from matter?
18335If I question the forces about me, what answer do I get?
18335If evolution pursued a course equally fortuitous, would it not still be wandering in the wilderness of the chaotic nebulà ¦?
18335If it was not life which exerted this force, what was it?
18335If so, by what?
18335If so, what made them diverge and develop into such totally different forms?
18335If the forces are purely automatic, why not?
18335If the gods of the inorganic elements are neither for nor against us, but utterly indifferent to us, how came we here?
18335If we limit the natural to the inorganic order, then are living bodies supernatural?
18335If we say it was nature, do we mean by nature a physical force or an immaterial principle?
18335If we say the particular essence of life is chemical, do we mean any more than that life is inseparable from chemical reactions?
18335If we were to see and hear it for the first time, should we not think that the Judgment Day had really come?
18335In every machine, properly so called, all the factors are known; but do we know all the factors in a living body?
18335In like manner can, or does, this potential life of the world of atoms and electrons give rise to organized living beings?
18335In the presence of a rudimentary intelligence, do they still follow that law, or do they now obey another law-- the law of a die that is loaded?"
18335Is biology to be interpreted in the same physical and chemical terms as geology?
18335Is it any more or any less?
18335Is it not like accounting for a baby in terms of its breathing and eating?
18335Is life outside this circle?
18335Is magnetism or gravitation a real thing?
18335Is not a brook trout more alive than a mud- sucker?
18335Is not geology also applied physics and chemistry?
18335Is not the peristaltic movement of the bowels, by which the solid matter is removed, also a vital phenomenon?
18335Is not this conceding to the vitalists all that they claim?
18335Is radio- active matter any nearer living matter than is the clod under foot?
18335Is that a hard proposition?
18335Is the spirit of a race or a nation, or of the times in which we live, another illustration of the same mysterious entity?
18335Is there a spirit of fire, or of decay, or of disease, or of health?
18335Is there any chance that they will hit upon a combination of things and forces that will make a machine-- a watch, a gun, or even a row of pins?
18335Is there any room for the moral law in a world of mechanical determinism?
18335Is there no difference between the growth of a plant or an animal, and the increase in size of a sand- bank or a snow- bank, or a river delta?
18335Is there not molecular attraction and repulsion in a steam- engine also?
18335Is there not room here for something besides blind, indifferent forces?
18335Is what we call life the result of their various new combinations?
18335It is certain that this circle does not always include life, but can life exist outside this circle?
18335It is some living thing; but what is a living thing, and how does it differ from a mechanical and non- living thing?
18335Life accounts for protoplasm, but what accounts for life?
18335Little wonder that the good people are asking, Have we lost faith?
18335May not life be spontaneous in the same sense?
18335May not life itself be the outcome of a peculiar whirl of the ultimate atoms of matter?
18335Must he not bring a new force, an alien power?
18335Must we go outside of matter itself, and of chemical reactions, to account for it?
18335Nearly nine tenths of a living body is water; is not this water the same as the water we get at the spring or the brook?
18335No doubt at all that if these processes were arrested, life would speedily end, but do they alone account for its origin?
18335Now, what keeps up the constant interchange-- this seesaw?
18335Of course the man of science is also a philosopher-- may I not even say he is also a prophet and poet?
18335Other still smaller organisms?
18335Protoplasm makes more protoplasm, as fire makes more fire, but what kindled the first spark of this living flame?
18335Shall we praise the fitness of the air for breathing, or of the water for drinking, or of the winds for filling our sails?
18335Should we be justified, then, in saying that there is no difference between them?
18335Soddy makes the suggestive inquiry:"If life begins in a single cell, does intelligence?
18335Sufficient heat kills the germs, but what disintegrates the germs and reduces them to dust?
18335The body is a machine and a laboratory combined, but that which coördinates them and makes them work together-- what is that?
18335The final question of the cabbage and the man still remains-- Where did you get them?
18335The force is as mechanical as the squeezing of the bulb of a syringe by the hand, but in the case of the intestines, what does the squeezing?
18335The germ makes an"effort"to restore it( why does it make an effort?
18335The living cell is a wonderful machine, but if we ask which is first, life or the cell, where are we?
18335The nose of the pig is fitted for rooting; shall we say, then, that the soil was made friable that pigs might root in it?
18335The psychic arises out of the organic and the organic arises out of the inorganic, and the inorganic arises out of-- what?
18335The vital force?
18335The webbed foot is fitted to the water; shall we say, then, that water is liquid in order that geese and ducks may swim in it?
18335There is more wit than science in Huxley''s question,"What better philosophical status has vitality than aquosity?"
18335There is no ethics in the physical order, and if humanity is entirely in the grip of that order, where do moral obligations come in?
18335These"chemical reaction complexes"in living cells, as the biochemists call them, are they the cause of life, or only the effect of life?
18335This may be only my anthropomorphic way of looking at things, but are not all our ways of looking at things anthropomorphic?
18335To ask which is first is to call up the old puzzle, Which is first, the egg, or the hen that laid it?
18335Unless we consider them as potential in all matter( and who shall say that they are not?)
18335V Is gravity or chemical affinity any more real to the mind than vitality?
18335VII Without metaphysics we can do nothing; without mental concepts, where are we?
18335Was Nature getting ready for man?
18335Was it a miraculous or a natural event?
18335Was it, or is it, a visitation-- something_ ab extra_ that implies super- mundane, or supernatural, powers?
18335We call it burdock, but what is burdock, and why does it not change into yellow dock, or into a cabbage?
18335We know, do we not?
18335We may or we may not have lost faith, but can we not see that our faith does not give us a key to the problem?
18335What can science see or find in the brain of man that answers to the soul?
18335What did Spencer mean by it?
18335What difference does it find between inert matter and a living organism?
18335What do vital changes involve?
18335What force is there in inert matter that can build a machine by the adjustment of parts to each other?
18335What has happened to them?
18335What has science done to clear up this mystery of vitality?
18335What has to supplement the mechanical and the chemical to make matter alive?
18335What is it in the body that struggles against poisons and seeks to neutralize their effects?
18335What is it that determines this new mode and end of their activities?
18335What is it that prevents the local whirl in this unstable stream from changing its form?
18335What is it that protects the body against a second attack of certain diseases, making it immune?
18335What is it that travels along lifting new water each moment up into waves?
18335What is it?
18335What must be added to them to set up the reaction we call life?
18335What prompted the elements to this new and extraordinary behavior?
18335What was it in the first instance that gathered their elements from the earth and built them up into such wonderful mechanisms?
18335When we get down to the lowest organism, is the gulf so impressive?
18335When we have learned all that science can tell us about the earth, is it not more rather than less wonderful?
18335Whether the evolution of the human mind from the animal was by insensible gradations, or by a few sudden leaps, who knows?
18335Who knows upon what physical conditions of the earth''s elements the brain of man was dependent?
18335Who or what decides who shall stay and who shall go?
18335Who or what issues the regicide order?
18335Who shall reconcile these contradictions?
18335Why consciousness should be born of cell structure in one form of life and not in another, who shall tell us?
18335Why did it not keep on the same level, and go through the cycle of change, as the inorganic does, without attaining to higher forms?
18335Why did not unicellular life always remain unicellular?
18335Why has it risen?
18335Why may we not think of life as a vital force traveling through matter and lifting up into organic life waves in the same way?
18335Why not in the form of a cabbage, or a donkey, or a clam?
18335Why should matter be gathered in at all in a mechanical struggle between inorganic elements?
18335Will your formulas and equations apply here?
18335Would our mathematics and our chemistry have been of any avail in our dealing with such a problem?
18335X When we speak of the gulf that separates the living from the non- living, are we not thinking of the higher forms of life only?
18335Yet can we conceive of the end of the physical order?
18335Yet it must have lived before it had them, else how would the necessity arise?
18335You assume vitality to start with-- how did you get it?
18335You can treat mechanical principles mathematically, but can you treat life mathematically?
18335a machine?
18335and so on_ ad infinitum_?
18335does the physical distinction between living and dead matter begin in the jostling molecular crowd?
18335does water undergo any chemical change in the body?
18335is it any more alive?
18335is it anything more than a solvent, than a current that carries the other elements to all parts of the body?
18335may we look upon them as of cosmic rank?
18335or between the wear and repair of a working- man''s body and the wear and repair of the machine he drives?
18335or could we foresee his affinities and combinations as we do that of a chemical body?
18335or in the development of the nervous system, or the circulatory system, or the digestive system, or of the eye, or of the ear?
18335or of cohesion?
18335or why one is an herbivorous feeder, and the other a carnivorous?
18335or, in the moral world, is love, charity, or consciousness itself?
18335that the great seals of the Book of Fate were being broken?
18335the end of gravity?
54612Where are the facts proving the inheritance of acquired characters?
54612[ 135] But if the production of one or other form from the same germ does not result from speciality of feeding, what does it result from? 54612 Again, what is to be thought of the fact that the immense majority of these supposed special creations took place before mankind existed? 54612 Am I called upon to abandon my own supported belief and accept Mr. Wallace''s unsupported belief? 54612 Among the several types of individuals forming the existing ant community, to which, then, did the ancestral ants bear the greatest resemblance? 54612 And does our ignorance of the manner in which they arose warrant us in asserting that they arose by special creation? 54612 And first of all, what are we to understand by co- operative parts? 54612 And how are the conquering determinants to find they ways out of the_ mêlée_ to the places where they are to fulfil their organizing functions? 54612 And if not, how far do differences between the surpluses determine differences between the limits of growth? 54612 And if otherwise, which are the directly adaptive and which are not? 54612 And now what about the other term of the antithesis-- the alleged inherent mortality of the somatic cells? 54612 And now, in presence of these facts, what are we to say? 54612 And then, how long will it take for the rest to be brought into adjustment? 54612 And what are the leading structural traits of these_ Amphibia_? 54612 And why, if typical uniformity was to be maintained, does the number of sacral vertebræ vary within the same order of birds? 54612 Answers to the questions-- Why do these adaptive modifications in an individual animal soon reach a limit? 54612 Are all the modifications that serve to re- fit organisms to their environments, directly adaptive modifications? 54612 Are not these traits also results of arrested nutrition? 54612 At what stage does it become an individual? 54612 Bearing in mind this requirement, is any one now prepared to say that survival of the fittest can cause this decline of the self- feeding faculty? 54612 But are we justified in speaking of cells at all in this case? 54612 But having abandoned this crude belief, what belief is he prepared to substitute? 54612 But how can we conceive an inactive activity? 54612 But how come these animals while young and small to have surplus assimilative powers? 54612 But how does the extreme discriminativeness of the tongue- tip aid these functions? 54612 But how happens the mean state of the organ to be changed? 54612 But if this distribution of tactual perceptiveness can not be explained by survival of the fittest, how can it be explained? 54612 But let us make a large admission, and suppose these muscles to vary together; what further muscular change is next required? 54612 But now what are the conditions under which alone, direct equilibration can occur? 54612 But now what are we to say when, instead of being cut off transversely, the tail is divided longitudinally and each half becomes a complete tail? 54612 But now what must follow from the destruction of the least- resisting individuals and survival of the most- resisting individuals? 54612 But what about speech? 54612 But what are we to say when three, four, and even five sets ofids"or bundles of"determinants"are present?
54612But what has meanwhile happened to the outer digits?
54612But what if the incident energy, falling on the system from without, proved insufficient to overthrow it?
54612But what is the evidence for this?
54612But what shall we say on finding innumerable cases in which the suffering inflicted brings no compensating benefit?
54612But why should the growth of every organism be finally arrested?
54612But why will the disused organs vary in the direction of decrease more than in the direction of increase?
54612By what series of variations shall we say that it is reduced from full power to entire incapacity?
54612Can this greater power be shown to have any advantage?
54612Can this, or anything like this, be shown?
54612Can we assume it to be solved by unconscious units?
54612Can we with any propriety assume that these many enlargements duly proportioned will be simultaneously effected by spontaneous variations?
54612Could we more truly say of anything,''it is unrepresentable in thought?''"
54612Did the Unknowable thus demonstrate his power to himself?
54612Do these continue their fissiparous multiplications without end?
54612Do they differ in extension?
54612Do they differ otherwise than in amount?
54612Do they vary together?
54612Does Structure originate Function, or does Function originate Structure?
54612Does any one think he can show this?
54612For if all such as are deficient of power in a certain direction are destroyed, what must be the effect on posterity?
54612For if these single- celled organisms which multiply so rapidly be supposed to lose some of their separative tendency, what must be the result?
54612For what has the trusted process of panmixia been doing ever since the human being began to evolve from the ape?
54612For whence did he get the doctrine of special creations?
54612HOW IS ORGANIC EVOLUTION CAUSED?
54612HOW IS ORGANIC EVOLUTION CAUSED?
54612Have all animals equal surpluses of assimilative powers?
54612Have we any ground for concluding that species were specially created, except the ground that we have no immediate knowledge of their origin?
54612Have we any reason to think that the parts spontaneously increase or decrease together?
54612Have we not here a solution of these facts?
54612How about the back of the trunk and its face?
54612How are the Cretaceous Ichthyosauria, Plesiosauria, or Pterosauria less embryonic or more differentiated species than those of the Lias?"
54612How are these transformations brought about?
54612How are we to account for this fact?
54612How are we to conceive that genesis of a vital principle which must go along with the genesis of an organism?
54612How are we to distinguish between them?
54612How came this contrast to arise in the course of evolution, if there was the equality of variation supposed?
54612How can its all- sufficiency be alleged when its action can neither be demonstrated nor easily imagined?
54612How changed?
54612How comes there a wish to perform an action not before performed?
54612How distinguished?
54612How does it happen that among those moths of which the female has but rudimentary wings, she continues to endow the males of her species with wings?
54612How does it happen that some organisms multiply by homogenesis and others by heterogenesis?
54612How formed?
54612How happened it then to awaken at the time when the supply of water enabled the tissues to resume their functions?
54612How happens it that animals were so designed as to render this bloodshed necessary?
54612How is it that the children of a widow by a second husband do not bear traceable resemblances to the first husband?
54612How is such proclivity obtainable?
54612How is this to be explained?
54612How long, then, will it be before there takes place that particular alteration which will make the bone fitter for its new action?
54612How made?
54612How shall we explain the reparative and reproductive powers thus exemplified?
54612How shall we range these facts with the ordinary facts of inheritance?
54612How so?
54612How then comes the organ to augment in size and power?
54612How would it be possible for creatures subject to so violent a change of habitat to survive?
54612How, by any process of direct equilibration, could it come to have the required thickness?
54612How, in the course of evolution, have they been established?
54612How, then, did M. Nouel succeed in obtaining a desirable combination of a fine English breed with the relatively poor French breeds?
54612How, then, is this balance to be maintained?
54612How, then, is this remarkable trait of the tongue- tip to be accounted for?
54612How, then, will a diminution of this separative tendency first show itself?
54612If a new organism is not thus produced, then in what way is one produced?
54612If he has to surrender the hypothesis of_ panmixia_, what results?
54612If so, how have there arisen the unlikenesses between the hind legs of the kangaroo and those of the elephant?
54612If so, we are met by the question-- how is the re- arrangement effected?
54612If so, why did it come back at the right moment?
54612If these facts do not disprove absolutely Professor Weismann''s hypothesis, we may wonderingly ask what facts would disprove it?
54612If they are not inheritable, what must happen?
54612In passing from its wholly unorganized state to an organized state, what will be the first step?
54612In the second place there arises the question-- whence comes the nitrogen required for the compounding of the carbo- hydrates into proteids?
54612In what way does he treat this argument?
54612In what way, then, is the required co- adaptation to be effected?
54612Is any advantage derived from possession of greater tactual discriminativeness by the last than the first?
54612Is it by the agency of the nucleus?
54612Is it created afresh for every plant and animal?
54612Is it not probable that the process of differentiation has been similar?
54612Is it replied that the Creator was able to make individuals arise from one another in a natural succession, but not to make species thus arise?
54612Is it some other vital principle external to it, or some materials out of which more vital principle is formed?
54612Is it supposed that a new organism, when specially created, is created out of nothing?
54612Is not the growth of an organism an essentially similar process?
54612Is the protoplasm then the active agent?
54612Is there one kind of vital principle for all kinds of organisms, or is there a separate kind for each?
54612Is this a credible conclusion?
54612Is this principle of activity inherent in organic matter, or is it something superadded?
54612It takes for its subject- matter such general questions as-- What is the end subserved by the union of sperm- cell and germ- cell?
54612Let us, then, ask how, by natural selection, this complex apparatus of bones and muscles can have been developed,_ pari passu_ with the horns?
54612Looking at the evidence thus brought together, do we not get an insight into the actions of nitrogenous matter as a worker of organic changes?
54612May we not expect that it will show itself in the divided portions_ not_ flying apart, but remaining near each other, and forming a group?
54612May we not suspect that it is connected( partially though not wholly) with the contrast between their amounts of locomotive exertion?
54612Must we conclude that God went out of his way to devise an animal for these places?
54612Must we then think, like Von Baer, that the distribution of kindred organisms through different media presents an insurmountable difficulty?
54612Nay, indeed, would not this be much the easier?
54612Now what is the process by which the moving equilibrium in any species becomes adapted to some additional external factor furthering its maintenance?
54612Omitting sundry minor generalizations, the exposition of which would involve too much detail, what is to be said of these major generalizations?
54612Passing from the evidence that evolution has taken place, to the question-- How has it taken place?
54612Relations between what things?
54612Shall we regard all the growing axes thus resulting from slips and grafts and buds, as parts of one individual or as distinct individuals?
54612Shall we say five?
54612Shall we say that these amount to one- tenth of the central ganglion?
54612Shall we say that these degraded creatures, incapable of thought or enjoyment, were created that they might cause human misery?
54612Shall we say that"the head and crown of things,"was provided as a habitat for these parasites?
54612Such being the necessities of the case, what will happen on any successive or simultaneous fertilizations?
54612Suppose that the head of a bison becomes much heavier, what must be the indirect results?
54612The above induction is an approximate answer to the question--_When_ does gamogenesis recur?
54612The question arises, then,--do variations of the appropriate kinds occur simultaneously in all these co- operative parts?
54612The question is: Are the differences between species differences of adaptation?
54612The ultimate mystery is as great as ever: seeing that there remains unsolved the question-- What_ determines_ the co- ordination of actions?
54612There naturally arises the question-- How does it happen that parallel results are not observed in other cases?
54612These proceedings have reference to constitutional needs; but how are they prompted?
54612This answer to the question--_when_ does gamogenesis recur?
54612This goes on with children and grandchildren for a few millions of years, and at last who can be astonished that the fins become feet?
54612Those who think that divine power is demonstrated by special creations, have to answer the question-- to whom demonstrated?
54612Though there may arise the question-- Why could they not have been avoided?
54612To my immediate inquiry--"Was the male a wild pig?"
54612To what end is this construction and re- construction?
54612Under what circumstances do such modes of agamic multiplication, variously modified among parasites, occur?
54612Under what form are we to conceive this dynamic element?
54612Under what form has the vital principle existed during these long intervals?
54612Under what influence is this action initiated and guided?
54612Under what play of forces do these zoospores arrange themselves into this strange structure?
54612Until some beneficial result has been felt from going through certain movements, what can suggest the execution of such movements?
54612Was it all along present in the rotifer though asleep?
54612Was the vital principle elsewhere during these years of absolute quiescence?
54612We are concerned with the previous question-- What variations will arise?
54612Well, in the first place, there might be asked the counter- question-- Where are the facts which disprove it?
54612Were its structure and the accompanying instinct divinely planned to fit it to this particular habitat?
54612What are the causes of variation?
54612What are the conditions under which Genesis takes place?
54612What are the laws of hereditary transmission?
54612What are the probabilities that these two anomalous results should have arisen, under these exceptional conditions, as a matter of chance?
54612What are the variations required?
54612What are we to say of a laugh?
54612What are we to say of the repeated cell- fissions by which in some types a blastula, or mulberry- mass, is formed, and in other types a blastoderm?
54612What can be more widely contrasted than a newly- born child and the small, semi- transparent, gelatinous spherule constituting the human ovum?
54612What do we find?
54612What does the vital principle incorporate?
54612What follows?
54612What function does the nucleus discharge; and, more especially, what is the function discharged by the chromatin?
54612What further modifications of habits were probably then acquired?
54612What generates in the cow a desire to bite a substance so unlike in character to her ordinary food?
54612What happens if instead of one organ we consider all the organs?
54612What happens with the blow fly?
54612What happens?
54612What interpretation is to be put on these facts by those who espouse the hypothesis of special creations?
54612What interpretation is to be put on these truths of classification?
54612What is an individual?
54612What is the generalization implied by these two groups of facts?
54612What is the implication?
54612What is the meaning of these differences?
54612What is the most common trait in the development of the sexes?
54612What is the physiological interpretation of these structures and changes?
54612What is the relation between growth and expenditure of energy?
54612What is to be thought of this creature?
54612What kind of life does a crocodile lead?
54612What kinds of individuals were the ancestral ants-- at first solitary, and then semi- social?
54612What made them simultaneously vary in the requisite ways?
54612What must be their properties?
54612What must happen?
54612What must have been the proximate causes of their variations?
54612What must result?
54612What must we say of the ability an organism has to re- complete itself when one of its parts has been cut off?
54612What now happens when they are mixed?
54612What observer has watched for forty years to see whether the fissiparous multiplication of_ Protozoa_ does not cease?
54612What observer has watched for one year, or one month, or one week?
54612What of its divided state?
54612What reason have we for assuming that the inconveniently small tongues occur more frequently than the inconveniently large ones?
54612What results?
54612What shall we say of these leading truths when taken together?
54612What shall we say to this arrangement?
54612What shall we say when we see the inferior destroying the superior?
54612What then are we to say-- what are we to think?
54612What then has disappeared?
54612What was the next step?
54612What will be the characters of the developed insects?
54612What will be the consequence?
54612What will happen?
54612What, again, is the meaning of extinction of types?
54612What, however, are we to say of a multiaxial plant?
54612What, in these cases, must the female do that she may rear members of the next generation?
54612What, now, do we find among the organisms thus subject to various regular and irregular alterations of media?
54612What, now, is the implication?
54612What, then, is the meaning of these peculiar relations of organic forms?
54612What, then, is the only defensible interpretation?
54612What, then, is the probability that there will be two nearly blind ones, and that these will be thus carried?
54612What, then, must happen with the queen- ant, which, through countless generations, has ceased to use certain structures and has lost them from disuse?
54612What, then, must this division be?
54612What, then, remains as the only possible interpretation?
54612What, then, shall we say of the fore limbs and hind limbs of terrestrial mammals, which co- operate closely and perpetually?
54612What, then, will in some cases happen, supposing there is an arrested development consequent on innutrition?
54612Whence arises, then, their striking unlikeness of bulk?
54612Whence comes that vital principle which determines the organizing process?
54612Where is the_ exchange of services_ between somatic cells and reproductive cells?
54612Where now are the facts supporting this assertion?
54612Where, before life commenced, were the superior organisms from which these lowest organisms obtained their organic matter?
54612Which alternative does he prefer?--to cast an imputation on the divine character or to assert a limitation of the divine power?
54612Which do they prefer?
54612Why can not all multiplication be carried on after the asexual method?
54612Why does there not exist a bird of the size of an elephant?
54612Why during thousands of generations has not the nervous structure giving this extreme discriminativeness dwindled away?
54612Why is it that where agamogenesis prevails it is usually from time to time interrupted by gamogenesis?
54612Why is this?
54612Why is this?
54612Why not assume"a fortuitous concourse of atoms"in its broad, simple form?
54612Why should not all organisms, when supplied with sufficient materials, continue to grow as long as they live?
54612Why should not omnipotence have been proved by the supernatural production of plants and animals everywhere throughout the world from hour to hour?
54612Why should the inert_ Aphis_ and the swift- flying Emperor- butterfly be constructed on the same fundamental plan?
54612Why should the thigh near the knee be twice as perceptive as the middle of the thigh?
54612Why should there be no more somites in the Stick- insect, or other Phasmid a foot long, than there are in a small creature like the louse?
54612Why should there exist this process of natural genesis?
54612Why should they not have enlarged by deposit in them of superfluous materials?
54612Why then do most of them run up during many preceding months?
54612Why this unparalleled perceptiveness?
54612Why under the down- covered body of a moth and under the hard wing- cases of a beetle, should there be discovered the same number of divisions?
54612Why, then, should we suppose these rudiments to have become smaller?
54612Will any one who contends that organisms were specially designed, assert that they could not have been so designed as to prevent suffering?
54612With what other contrast between these classes, is this contrast connected?
54612[ 26] What, now, are the implications?
54612[ 53] How can the civilized races have been benefited in the struggle for life, by the slight decrease in these comparatively- small bones?
54612and why he presents these difficulties to me, more especially; deliberately ignoring my own hypothesis of physiological units?
54612and why is it that where agamogenesis prevails it is usually, from time to time, interrupted by gamogenesis?
54612or again:--How can the act of secreting some defensive fluid correspond with some external danger which may never occur?
54612or again:--How can the_ dynamical_ phenomena constituting perception correspond with the_ statical_ phenomena of the solid body perceived?
54612or rather-- in what way does he conceive a new organism to be produced?
54612or, if not, where and how did it pre- exist?
54612or, indeed, how could it come to exist at all?
54612still left unanswered the question--_why_ does gamogenesis recur?
54612there does not arise the question-- Why were they deliberately inflicted?
54612why were not their rates of multiplication, their degrees of intelligence, and their propensities, so adjusted that these sufferings might be escaped?
2740How can water injure the leaves, if indeed this is at all the case?
2740(?)
2740), and do they throw up on the surface of the ground numerous castings or vermicular masses such as we so commonly see in Europe?
2740), by you be looked at as reversion to the columbine state?
2740), to note whether the females flocked in equal numbers to the"drumming"of the rarer form as to the common form?
2740): if he is right, do you not think that the unknown force may make more intelligible the extension of the great northern ice- cap?
2740... When you next write to your son, will you please remember me kindly to him and give him my best thanks for his note?
27406, Queen Anne Street, W., December 19th[ 1870?].
2740About the difference in the power of flight in Dorkings, etc., may it not be due merely to greater weight of body in the adults?
2740Also the length and breadth of the shell, and how much of leg( which leg?)
2740America( North), are European birds blown to?
2740And did the wound suppurate, or heal by the first intention?
2740And might you not add that over the whole world it would probably be admitted that a larger area is NOW at rest than in movement?
2740Are such castings found in the forests beneath the dead withered leaves?
2740Are the purple flowers borne on moderately long racemes?
2740Are there any other glands or other organs which you can think of?
2740Are there any traces of other muscles?
2740Are there everywhere many unpaired birds?
2740Are there many unmarried birds?
2740Are there not lots of good young chemists and astronomers or physicists?
2740Are you familiar with appearance of ice- action?
2740Are you sure there is no mistake?
2740As you so kindly helped me before on dimorphism, will you forgive me begging for a little further information, if in your power to give it?
2740Because at 12,000 feet he finds the same kind of clay with that of the Pampas he never doubts that it is contemporaneous with the Pampas[ debacle?]
2740But can you account for the males not having been rendered equally brilliant and equally protected?
2740But do n''t you think that viscid lava might be very slow in communicating its pressure equally in all directions?
2740But how was the Glen Roy lake drained when the water stood at level of the middle"road"?
2740But what in the world is to be done?"
2740But who can tell what effect this mile or two of new sedimentary strata would have from mere gravity on the level of the supporting surface?
2740But why do you not publish these facts in a separate little paper?
2740But why, oh, why should so many monocotyledons have come there?
2740By any chance have you at Kew any odd varieties of the common potato?
2740By the way, can you lend me the January number of the"London Journal of Botany"for an article on insect- agency in fertilisation?
2740By the way, have you any other Goodeniaceae which you could lend me, besides Leschenaultia and Scaevola, of which I have seen enough?
2740By the way, how do you and Buckland account for the"tails"of diluvium in Scotland?
2740Can he refer to terminal moraines alone when he says fragments in moraines are rounded?
2740Can it be my dear friend?
2740Can the name Heterocentron have any reference to such diversity?
2740Can this indicate four confluent pistils?
2740Can you forgive me for troubling you at such unreasonable length?
2740Can you give any explanation of this statement?
2740Can you give, or obtain from your father, any information on this head, and allow me to quote your authority?
2740Can you help me?
2740Can you now send me a plant?
2740Can you or any of your colleagues think of any such plant?
2740Can you remember how we ever first met?
2740Can you spare me a good plant( or even two) of Oxalis sensitiva?
2740Can you tell me what this relation is?
2740Can you tell me whether any Fringillidae or Sylviadae erect their feathers when frightened or enraged?
2740Can you tell me?
2740Can you throw any light on this?
2740Could there have been a lively midshipman on board, who in the morning stocked the pool from the adjoining coast?
2740Could you ask any one to observe this for me in an eye- dispensary or hospital?
2740Could you have a seedling dug up and potted?
2740Could you look out for an additional instance?
2740Could you make it scream without hurting it much?
2740Could you not ascertain whether the barbs are sensitive, and how soon they become spiral in the bud?
2740Could you not get an accurate sketch of the direction of the hair of the tip of an ear?
2740Could you not invent some quite new term for gland, implying viscidity?
2740Could you oblige me by taking the great trouble to send me in an old tin canister any of these orchids, permitting me, of course, to repay postage?
2740Did the shell remain attached to the beetle''s leg from the 18th to the 23rd, and was the beetle kept during this time in the air?
2740Did you ever hear of the existence of any sub- breed of the canary in which the male differs in plumage from the female?
2740Do the leaflets sleep on the following night in the usual manner?
2740Do the same leaflets on successive nights move in the same strange manner?
2740Do these fragments coincide in level with Glen Gluoy shelf?
2740Do these secrete?
2740Do they run down walls of ovarium, and then turn up the placenta, and so debouch near the"orifices"of the ovules?
2740Do very vigorous and well- nourished hens receive the male earlier in the spring than weaker or poorer hens?
2740Do you chance to know of any botanical collector in Mexico or Peru?
2740Do you grow Adlumia cirrhosa?
2740Do you intend to follow out your views?
2740Do you know Asa Gray''s child book on the functions of plants, or some such title?
2740Do you know Coryanthes, with its wonderful basket of water?
2740Do you know any gallinaceous bird in which the female has well developed spurs?
2740Do you know any good conchologist in Northampton who could name it?
2740Do you know anything of his knowledge?
2740Do you know how the muscles are in this part in the anthropoid apes?
2740Do you know of any birds besides pigeons, and, as it is said, the raven, which pair for their whole lives?
2740Do you know of any birds besides some of the gallinaceae which are polygamous?
2740Do you know well Bronn in his last Entwickelung( or some such word) on this subject?
2740Do you not think it a very curious subject?
2740Do you remember how savage you were long years ago at my broaching such a conjecture?
2740Do you remember telling me you could see no nectar in your Rhexia?
2740Do you remember the scarlet Leschenaultia formosa with the sticky margin outside the indusium?
2740Do you sigh over the"Insular Floras,"the Introduction to New Zealand Flora, to Australia, your Arctic Flora, and dear Galapagos, etc., etc., etc.?
2740Do you take in"Nature,"or shall I send you a copy?
2740Does Lyell know Loven, or his address and title?
2740Does any sensitive species of Mimosa grow in your neighbourhood?
2740Does it bend through irritability when rubbed?"
2740Does it not look as if flowers were normally bilateral; just in the same way as we now know that the radiating star- fish, etc., are bilateral?
2740Does it not strike you as very difficult to understand how insects remove the pollinia and carry them to the stigmas?
2740Does not the N. American view of warmer or more equable period, after great Glacial period, become much more probable in Europe?
2740Does the orbicularis press against, and so directly stimulate, the lachrymal gland?
2740Does this indicate that the soluble salts have been washed out?
2740Does this not look like a vivification of a fossil seed?
2740Does this not strike you as a good case of false relation?
2740Does this orchid produce many capsules?
2740Down, 20th[ 1862?].
2740Down, 25th[ 1863?]
2740Down, 4th[ about 1862- 3?]
2740Down, August 23rd[ 1846?].
2740Down, December 12th[ 1860?].
2740Down, December 23rd[ 1870?].
2740Down, December 3rd,[ 1862?].
2740Down, February 16th[ 1862?].
2740Down, February 16th[ 1867?]
2740Down, February 3rd[ 1862?]
2740Down, January 1st[ 1878?].
2740Down, January 5th,[ 1871?]
2740Down, July 19th[ 1881?]
2740Down, June 15th[ 1869?].
2740Down, June 22nd[ 1862?].
2740Down, June 3rd[ 1870?].
2740Down, May 5th[ 1868?].
2740Down, October 25th[ 1861?]
2740Down, October, 13th[ 1876?].
2740Down, Saturday[ 1874?].
2740Down, Thursday, February 21st[ 1868- 70?].
2740Down, Wednesday night[ 1849?].
2740Down[ 1846?].
2740First, the Glen[ shelf?
2740For where could the rich lowland equatorial flora have existed during a period of general refrigeration sufficient for this?
2740Garden of Edinburgh( do you know anything of him?)
2740Gray?
2740Have any of the forms of Primula, which are non- dimorphic, been propagated for some little time by seed in garden?
2740Have you Clematis cirrhosa?
2740Have you Kerguelen Land amongst your volcanic islands?
2740Have you a copy of my Orchis book?
2740Have you been a large collector of caterpillars?
2740Have you ever attended to glacier action?
2740Have you ever seen any form from the same countries which could be the females?
2740Have you ever thought of keeping a young monkey, so as to observe its mind?
2740Have you had any experience of birds hatched under a foster- mother making their nests in the proper manner?
2740Have you had any opportunity of tracing a bed of marble?
2740Have you looked at any this year?")...
2740Have you looked at the pollen- masses of the bee- Ophrys?
2740Have you read Mr. Gurney''s articles in the"Fortnightly"and"Cornhill?"
2740Have you read Wallace''s recent articles?
2740Have you seeds of Oxalis sensitiva, which I see mentioned in books?
2740Have you thought at all over Rogers''Law, as he reiterates it, of cleavage being parallel to his axes- planes of elevation?
2740Have you thought of him?
2740He says he regrets that he did not test the ovules with chemical agents: does he mean tincture of iodine?
2740Here is another point: have you any Toucans?
2740How about the Quagga case?
2740How about the drake and Gallus bankiva?
2740How can the sexes be so equally matched?
2740How do you like that?
2740How is it with the eyebrows?
2740How is this about several males; is it not so?
2740How is this in the cases mentioned by you?
2740How is this with the native plants during a windy day?
2740How is this with the rhinoceros?
2740I am sure I have read somewhere of the cones of Lepidodendron being found round the stump of a tree, or am I confusing something else?
2740I daresay that you are right in that nectar was originally secreted within the staminal tube; but why has not the one stamen long since cohered?
2740I gather there are a good many muscles in various parts of the body which are in this same state: could you specify any of the best cases?
2740I have been much interested by what you say on the rostellum exciting pollen to protrude tubes; but are you sure that the rostellum does excite them?
2740I have lately observed that you have one great authority( C. Prevost),[ not] that authority signifies a[ farthing?]
2740I presume that these seeds can not be covered with any attractive pulp?
2740I see few periodicals: when have you published on Clivia?
2740I see in your list Clianthus, Carmichaelia( four species), a new genus, a shrub, and Edwardsia( is latter Papilionaceous?).
2740I should like to hear your case of the Primula: is it certainly propagated by seed?
2740I should think voyage out and home ought to be paid for?
2740I think I have often seen several males following one female; and what decides which male shall succeed?
2740I wonder much whether it stands out in the line of any oceanic current, which does not so forcibly strike the main island?
2740I wonder whether the ovules could be thus fertilised?
2740If so, can the wrinkling of the lower eyelids, which has often perplexed me, act in pushing back the eyeball?
2740If so, may we venture to call it so, or shall I put an(?)
2740If the Lochaber lakes had been formed by an ice- period posterior to the( marine?)
2740If there be not two forms of Rhexia, will you compare the position of the part in young and old flowers?
2740If you are well and have leisure, will you kindly give me one bit of information: Does Ophrys arachnites occur in the Isle of Wight?
2740If you chance to meet Ramsay will you ask him whether he has it?
2740If you have reflected on this point, what do you think of it?
2740If you know beforehand, will you tell me when your paper is read, for the chance of my being able to attend?
2740If you see him pray say I am truly grateful; I dare not write to a live Bishop or a Lady, but if I knew the address of"Rucker"?
2740If you sow any, had you not better sow a good many?
2740If you want to know further particulars of my experiments on Monochaetum(?)
2740In an old note of yours( which I have just found) you say that you have a sensitive Schrankia: could this be lent me?
2740In any case, how in the name of Heaven can it make a hollow in solid rock, which surely must be a work of many years?
2740In such cases what outline do you give to the upper surface of the lava in the dike connecting them?
2740In the summer, could I persuade you to pay us a visit of a day or two, and I would try and get Bates and some others to come down?
2740Is Sphaenium corneum a synonym of Cyclas?
2740Is expense of living high at Darjeeling?
2740Is he as good a workman as he appears?
2740Is it a common yellow cowslip?
2740Is it not a very remarkable fact?
2740Is it not curious that there should be such diversified sensitiveness in allied plants?
2740Is it not monstrous for a professed conchologist?
2740Is it your brother Harrison W., whom I know?
2740Is not this making Geology nice and simple for beginners?
2740Is not this most extraordinary, and a puzzler?
2740Is the male Macacus silenus furnished with longer hair than the female about the neck and face?
2740Is the scar on your son''s leg on the same side and on exactly the same spot where you were wounded?
2740Is there any place in London where parcels are received for you, or shall I send it by post?
2740Is this not so?
2740Is this not very curious, and opposed to the morphological idea that a flower is a condensed continuous spire of leaves?
2740It was in Park Street; but what brought us together?
2740Journal[ Magazine?.]"
2740July 2nd[ 1863?]
2740Lastly, have you any seaside plants with bloom?
2740Lastly, in the"prize- canaries,"which have black wing- and tail- feathers during their first(?)
2740March 21st[ 1871?].
2740May I say it is healthy?
2740May not a volcano be likened to a protruding and cracked portion on a vast natural high- pressure boiler, formed by the surrounding area of country?
2740May there be some sexual relation between A. Loddigesii and luteola; they seem very close?
2740Muller wrote:"Are the three which grow near each other seedlings from the same mother- plant or perhaps from seeds of the same capsule?
2740Now is not this structure a good argument that I interpret the homologies of the sides of clinandrum rightly?
2740Now the question is, what think you of the offer?
2740Now, can you tell me whether each spine has likewise an oblique unstriped or striped muscle, as figured by Lister?
2740Now, could you open the stomachs of these ants and examine the contents, so as to prove or disprove this remarkable hypothesis?
2740Now, if in your power, would you observe the position of the pistil in different plants, in lately opened flowers of the same age?
2740Now, is this not odd?
2740Now, some persons can move the skin of their hairy heads; and is this not effected by the panniculus?
2740On what kind of coast or land could the plants have lived?
2740One of this name has made a splendid medical discovery of nicotine counteracting strychnine and tetanus?
2740Or in extreme prostration from any illness?
2740P.S.--Do you happen to know, when there are only four stamens, whether it is the petal or sepal- facers which are preserved?
2740P.S.--I may give as instance of[ this] class of facts, that Barrow asserts that a male Emberiza(?)
2740Please to tell me where I can find any account of the auditory organs in the orthoptera?
2740Prof. Haughtons at Dublin?
2740Queries: Does any female bird regularly sing?
2740Secondly, may I quote you that you have often(?)
2740Secondly: Have you any white and yellow varieties of Verbascum which you could give me, or propagate for me, or LEND me for a year?
2740Shall I call on Friday morning at 9.30 and sit half an hour with you?
2740Shall you do any levelling?
2740Should you care to see an elaborate German pamphlet by Hermann Muller on the gradation and distinction of the forms of Epipactis and of Platanthera?
2740The map of Etna, which I have been just looking at, looks like a sudden falling in, does it not?
2740These notions are at least possible, and would they not vitiate your argument?
2740Thirdly: Can you give me seeds of any Rubiaceae of the sub- order Cinchoneae, as Spermacoce, Diodia, Mitchella, Oldenlandia?
2740Thursday[ 1874?].
2740To return again to subject of crossing: I have been inclined to speculate so far, as to think( my!?)
2740Was the latter point put in in a hurry to round the sentence, or do you really know of cases?
2740Was there ever such an enigma?
2740What a curious case your Gongora must be: could you spare me one of the largest capsules?
2740What can the explanation be?
2740What do you think about it?
2740What do you think of having Scott there for a year or two to work and experiment?
2740What do you think of this notion?
2740What is the character or colour of the first plumage of bright yellow or mealy canaries which breed true to these tints?
2740What is the difference in flowers of the rue?
2740What is the meaning of the mucus so copiously emitted from the moistened seeds of Iberis, and of at least some species of Linum?
2740What kind of birds were these twenty?
2740What kinds of seeds have the plants which are common to the distant mountain- summits in Africa?
2740What other mode of transit is conceivable?
2740What species is it?
2740What think you?
2740What will Sir William say?
2740When the Callithrix sciureus screams violently, does it wrinkle up the skin round the eyes like a baby always does?
2740When the elephants in the garden are turned out and are excited so as to move quickly, do they carry their tails aloft?
2740When the heart beats hard and quick, and the head becomes somewhat congested with blood in any illness, does the pupil contract?
2740When thus screaming do the eyes become suffused with moisture?
2740When will you come here again?
2740Who will say what this rate and what this duration is?
2740Why not sprinkle fresh plaster of Paris and make impenetrable crust?
2740Will he find the opportunity for experimental observations, which are a passion with him?
2740Will it not be possible to give enlarged drawings of some leading forms of trees?
2740Will not that be a hard nut for you when you come to treat in detail on geographical distribution?
2740Will you advise me for him?
2740Will you ask Sutton to observe carefully?
2740Will you have the kindness to look occasionally at your bee- Ophrys near Torquay, and see whether pollinia are ever removed?
2740Will you have the kindness to tell me whether the birds prefer one colour to another?
2740Will you look to this?
2740Will you not be puzzled when you come to the orchids?
2740Will you suggest to Oliver to review this paper?
2740Would a comparison of the ashes of terrestrial peat and coal give any clue?
2740Would it be worth while to send a corrected copy of the"Courant"to the"Gardeners''Chronicle?"
2740Would it not be better to dye the tail alone and crown of head, so as not to make too great difference?
2740Would it not be truer to say that Nature cares only for the superior individuals and then makes her new and better races?
2740Would it not be worth while to borrow one of these from Sir H. James as a curiosity to hang up?
2740Would not the Atlantic and Antarctic volcanoes be the best examples for you, as there then can be no coral mud to depress the bottom?
2740Would not tubes protrude if placed on parts of column or base of petals, etc., near to the stigma?
2740Would the Royal Agricultural Society be a fitting place?
2740Would there be any chance of your coming to luncheon then?
2740Would you have the kindness to send me word which end of the ovarium is meant by apex( that nearest the flower?
2740Yet how can so experienced an observer as A. be deceived about lateral and terminal moraines?
2740[ February, 1864?]
2740[ congenitally?]
2740], not coinciding in height with the upper one[ outlet?
2740and if so, would you like at some future time to have my few references and notes?
2740and likewise what is the height of the single scattered islands standing between such groups of islands?
2740and whether in the four- stamened forms the pistil is rectangularly bent or is straight?
2740and, if so, do they grow in a new or abnormal direction?
2740can D. Forbes really show the great elevation of Chili?
2740equal, long or short styled?
2740folding one open hand over the other on the lower part of chest( whilst recumbent?)
2740how is the ovarium, especially in the rue?
2740leaves move together towards the apex of leaf?
2740men or women?)
2740moult or when adult?
2740or do the intermediate forms, which are said to connect abroad this species and the bee- orchis, ever there occur?
2740or why should they have survived there more than on the main island, if once connected?
2740plumage, what colours are the wings and tails after the first(?)
2740seen persons( young or old?
2740sloping terraces in the Spean, would not Mr. J. have noticed gigantic moraines across the valley opposite the opening of Lake Treig?
2740the functions of the hairs]?
2740to the name?
2740what would be the result of pure or nearly pure layers of very different mineralogical composition being metamorphosed?
2740which I had undermined on the summit of Ashley Heath, 720(?)
2740who, evincing no great fear, were about to undergo severe operation under chloroform, showing resignation by( alternately?)
2739), and the mountains on W. coast in some degree connect the extra- tropical floras of Cape and Australia? 2739 Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for climbing trees and seizing insects in the chinks of the bark?"
2739( PLATE: EDWARD FORBES 1844?
2739( Was not R. Brown[ with] Flinders?)
2739(?)
2739), as applied to plants?
2739), the mountains of which must originally have differed from each other in height 8,000( or 10,000?)
2739); in confirmation of this in the same formation I found a large surface of the osseous polygonal plates, which"late observations"( what are they?)
273921 orders with 1 genus, having 7.95 species( or 4.6?).
27399[ 1859?].
2739A shell which I believe is the Gryphaea is the most abundant-- an Ostrea, Turratella, Ammonites, small bivalves, Terebratulae(?).
2739Again, if an imaginary decapod retained, when adult, many Zoea characters, would this not be a case of retardation?
2739America( where nearly the same flora exists as in Canada?)
2739And why does conscience prescribe one kind of action and condemn another kind?
2739Are European birds blown to America?
2739Are the Azorean erratics an established fact?
2739Are the other species of these genera wide rangers?
2739Are the plates from your own drawings?
2739Are there domestic bees?
2739Are these subspecies really characteristic of certain different regions of Germany?
2739Are you not struck by his metaphors and similes?
2739As you care so much for insular floras, are you aware that I collected all in flower on the Abrolhos Islands?
2739At page 189 I quote Henslow( confirmed by Gunther) on Mus messorius( and other species?)
2739But does this hold with South- West Australia or the Cape?
2739But even taking this definition, are you sure that alpine forms are not inherited from one, two, or three generations?
2739But how durst you attack a live bishop in that fashion?
2739But what on earth has a mere suggestion like this to do with meum and tuum?
2739But will not your brother artists scorn you for showing yourself so good an evolutionist?
2739By the way, I met the other day Phillips, the palaeontologist, and he asked me,"How do you define a species?"
2739By the way, have you read Tylor and Lecky?
2739By the way, how comes it that you were not attacked?
2739By what means, then, did illegitimate unions ever become sterile?
2739CHARLES DARWIN, 1854(?).
2739Can Sir Wyville Thomson name any one who has said that the evolution of species depends only on Natural Selection?
2739Can you aid me with any analogous facts?
2739Can you assist me, if you meet any rabbit- fancier?
2739Can you come here for Sunday?
2739Can you illuminate me?
2739Can you not see that this suggests the conclusion that the plants are derived one way and the birds another?
2739Can you refer me to any one or two books( for my power of reading is not great) which would illumine me?
2739Can you remember any such account?
2739Can you tell me( and I will promise to inflict no other question) whether climate explains this greater affinity?
2739Can you think of cases in any one species in genus, or genus in family, with certain parts extra developed, and some adjoining parts reduced?
2739Chelidonium majus,?
2739Could it have been in Eyre''s book?
2739Could you find time to do so soon?
2739Could you make anything out of a history of the great steps in the progress of Botany, as representing the whole of Natural History?
2739Could you not give a few woodcuts in your Travels to illustrate this?
2739Could you not spin a long week out of this examination?
2739Did I tell you how deeply pleased I was with Gray''s notice of my Arctic essay?
2739Did not Bunbury show that some Orders of plants were singularly deficient?
2739Did you collect sea- shells in Kerguelen- land?
2739Did you ever hear of"Condy''s Ozonised Water"?
2739Did you look to this, and can you tell me anything about it?
2739Did you see Mr. Blyth in Calcutta?
2739Do any of these genera cling to seaside?
2739Do any tropical lichens or mosses, or European, withstand heat, or grow on any trees in hothouse at Kew?
2739Do the Gauchos there admit it?
2739Do you agree?
2739Do you consider that a true variety should be produced by causes acting through the parent?
2739Do you ever see Dr. Coldstream?
2739Do you ever see Wollaston?
2739Do you feel sure about the similar absence in the Sandwich group?
2739Do you know any of this"foule"of plants?
2739Do you know its use?...
2739Do you know"Elements de Teratologie( on monsters, I believe) Vegetale,"par A. Moquin Tandon"?
2739Do you make any progress with your journal of travels?
2739Do you not find it takes much time?
2739Do you not mean boreal or arctic plants?
2739Do you not think that the conjugation of the Diatomaceae will ultimately throw light on the subject?
2739Do you see the"Gardeners''Chronicle,"and did you notice some little experiments of mine on salting seeds?
2739Do you think there are many such cases?
2739Does Owen begin to find it more prudent to leave you alone?
2739Does Oxalis corniculata present exactly the same varieties under very different climates?
2739Does a bud ever produce cotyledons or embryonic leaves?
2739Does he suppose the whole of Scotland thus worn down?
2739Does not a very humid climate almost imply( Tyndall) an equable one?
2739Does not some Yankee say that the American viviparous aphides are winged?
2739Does not this sound well?
2739Does the mulberry and magnolia show it is not very cold in winter, which I fear is the case?
2739Does the publisher or do you lose by it?
2739Does the water from this country crop out in springs in Holmsdale or in the valley of the Thames?
2739Down, August 14th[ 1869?]
2739Down, December 1st[ 1858?].
2739Down, December 22nd[ 1866?].
2739Down, December 23rd[ 1866?].
2739Down, January 11th[ 1860?].
2739Down, January 11th[ 1867?].
2739Down, January 7th[ 1867?].
2739Down, June 12th[ 1867?].
2739Down, March 27th[ 1864?].
2739Down, March 5th[ 1860?].
2739Down, May 2nd[ 1856?]
2739Down, May 31st[ 1863?].
2739Down, November 15th[ 1855?].
2739Down, November 25th[ 1862?].
2739Down, September 1st[ 184-?].
2739Down,[ 1857?]
2739Down[ 1857?].
2739Down[ 1858?]
2739Down[ February?]
2739Down[ June?]
2739Down[ June?]
2739Down[ November?]
2739EDWARD FORBES, 1844(?).
2739First, why do I think it obligatory to do my duty?
2739Fumaria officinalis.?
2739HOOKER, 1870?
2739Harvey writes:"You ask-- were all the infinitely numerous kinds of animals and plants created as eggs or seed, or as full grown?
2739Has Lyell been consulted?
2739Has a common rose produced by SEED a moss- rose?
2739Has the action of running water or the sea formed this deep ravine?
2739Have any of the B. Ayrean seeds produced plants?
2739Have you any thoughts of Southampton?
2739Have you anybody in Scotland from whom you could get the seeds?
2739Have you at Kew any Eucalyptus or Australian Mimosa which sets its seeds?
2739Have you begun regularly to write your book on the antiquity of man?
2739Have you ever seen it stated in any sporting work that game has become wilder in this country?
2739Have you ever thought of publishing your travels, and working in them the less abstruse parts of your Natural History?
2739Have you it?
2739Have you kept these seedling peaches?
2739Have you materials to show to what little height it ever ascends the mountains of Java or Sumatra?
2739Have you no reverence for fine lawn sleeves?
2739Have you read Hopkins in the last"Fraser?"
2739Have you seen Bentham''s remarks on species in his address to the Linnean Society?
2739Have you seen Weismann''s pamphlet"Einfluss der Isolirung,"Leipzig, 1872?
2739Have you seen the slashing article of December 26th in the"Daily News,"against my stealing from my"master,"the author of the"Vestiges?"
2739Have you the volume published by Lowe on Madeira?
2739Have you written to Kolliker?
2739Hooker, 1844] to the Athenaeum Club?
2739How are you and all yours?
2739How can this be, if there is no disinclination to crossing?
2739How could vertebrata be predominant under the conditions of life in which parasitic worms live?
2739How do you think I succeeded?
2739How does your journal get on?
2739How is it with any other British plants in New Zealand, or at the foot of the Himalaya?
2739How the devil does he find them out?
2739How would it be to speak to Owen as soon as your own mind is made up?
2739Hurstpierpoint,[ April?]
2739I am collecting all cases of bud- variations, in contradistinction to seed- variations( do you like this term, for what some gardeners call"sports"?
2739I am very glad to hear of your"three- year- old"vigour[?
2739I fear you will think me troublesome in my offer; but have you the second German edition of the"Origin?"
2739I find, however, plenty of difficulty in showing even a vague probability of this; especially in the Leguminosae, though their[ structure?]
2739I have not seen the Duke''s( or Dukelet''s?
2739I perfectly understand and feel the force of your argument in reference to birds per se, but why do these not apply to insects and plants?
2739I presume he made fine sections: if you are accustomed to such histological work, would it not be worth while to examine hairs of tail of mice?
2739I quite agree that the Government ought to have made him long ago, but what does the Government know or care for Science?
2739I really think the formation is in some places( it varies much) nearly 2,000 feet thick, it occurs often with a green( epidote?)
2739I should extremely like to see your reasons published in detail, for it''riles''me( this is a proper expression, is it not?)
2739I should like to hear whether this does not occur with widely ranging insect- genera?
2739I trust you will work out the New Zealand flora, as you have commenced at end of letter: is it not quite an original plan?
2739I wish he had tabulated his results; could you not suggest to him to draw up a paper of such results, comparing these Islands with Madeira?
2739I wonder whether two varieties of wheat could be similarly treated?
2739I write now chiefly to know whether you can tell me how to write to Hermann Schlagenheit( is this spelt right?)
2739If I had to cut up myself in a review I would have[ worried?]
2739If Natural Selection can NOT do this, how do species ever arise, except when a variety is isolated?
2739If any one were to ridicule any belief of the bishop''s, would he not blandly shrug his shoulders and be inexpressibly shocked?
2739If the view does not apply to animals, will it suffice for man?
2739If you do, would you give him my kind remembrances?
2739If you have written, I must wait, and in this case will you kindly let me hear as soon as you hear from Kolliker?
2739In a letter to Darwin, December 21st(?
2739In a letter to Hooker, May 22nd, 1860, Darwin wrote:"Have you Pyrola at Kew?
2739In a plant in a state of nature, does cutting off the sap tend to produce flower- buds?
2739In other words, why attribute to them conscious aesthetic qualities at all?
2739In the third column have you really materials to speak of confirming the proportion of winged and wingless insects on islands?
2739Is East Asia nearly as well known as West America?
2739Is it a book?
2739Is it a good book, and will it treat on hereditary malconformations or varieties?
2739Is it not an extraordinary fact, the great difference in position of the heart in different species of Cleodora?
2739Is it not grand the way in which the Bishop asserts that all such facts are explained by ideas in God''s mind?
2739Is it not opposed quite to the case of Teneriffe and Madeira, and Mediterranean Islands?
2739Is it not probable that guest- flies were aboriginally gall- makers, and bear the same relation to them which Apathus probably does to Bombus?
2739Is it true that female Primula plants always produce females by parthenogenesis?
2739Is not Verbenaceae very closely allied to Labiatae?
2739Is not a very clever man a grade above a very dull one?
2739Is not the similarity of plants of Kerguelen Land and southern S. America very curious?
2739Is the difference due to denudation during elevation?
2739Is the hair of your horse at all curly?
2739Is there any Abstract or Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society published?
2739Is there any instance in the northern hemisphere of plants being similar at such great distances?
2739Is there any truth in this suspicion?
2739Is this not like the Viola case?
2739Is this not so?
2739Is this not so?
2739Is this owing to the summits having existed from the most ancient times as open downs and the valleys having been filled up with brushwood?
2739Is this so?
2739It is poetry, and can I say anything more severe?
2739It might be asked why is development so all- potent in classification, as I fully admit it is?
2739JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, 1870(?).
2739June 27th[ 1863?]
2739Lecture VI., page 151, line 7 from top-- wetting FEET or bodies?
2739March 25th[ 1844?
2739May I keep the lists now returned?
2739Moor Park, Farnham, Surrey[ 1857?].
2739Must the mere precedence rigorously outweigh the apparent opinion of many old naturalists?
2739My God, is not the case difficult enough, without its being, as I must think, falsely made more difficult?
2739My wife asked,"How did he find that it stayed four hours under water without breathing?"
2739Naudin,"Revue Horticole,"1852?.
2739Now I have five or six other copies to distribute, and will you be so very kind as to help me?
2739Now, did any almond grow near your mother peach?
2739Now, do you agree thus far?
2739Now, does this occur with buds or do only rather strongly marked varieties thus appear at rare intervals of time by buds?
2739Now, is it worth while to go on at this length of detail?
2739Now, will you have the kindness to tell me how I can learn to see the error of my ways?
2739Of course he is quite at liberty to scorn and hate me, but why take such trouble to express something more than friendship?
2739Of the 89 Dezertas insects[ only?]
2739Of these naturalised plants are any or many more variable in your opinion than the average of your United States plants?
2739On the other hand,[ have] not the Sandwich Islands in the Northern Hemisphere some odd relations to Australia?
2739Or does it tend to atheism or pantheism?"
2739P.S.--Will you by silence give consent to the following?
2739Page 143: ought not"Sanscrit"to be"Aryan"?
2739Papaver dubium,?
2739Published in Mr. Clodd''s memoir of Bates in the"Naturalist on the Amazons,"1892, page l.) What do you mean by"individual plants"?
2739Review?"
2739Second, why do I think it my duty to do this and not do that?
2739See Falconer at the bottom of page 80: it is the old difficulty-- how can variability co- exist with persistence of type?
2739Shall we have the pleasure of seeing you there?
2739Shall you attend the Council of the Royal Society on Thursday next?
2739Shall you return through England?
2739Shall you think me impertinent( I am sure I do not mean to be so) if I hazard a remark on the style, which is of more importance than some think?
2739Should I send it to Bell?
2739Should you object offering for me this reward or payment to your little girls?
2739Since writing to you I have had more correspondence with the master of hounds, and I see his[ record?]
2739Supposing Greenland were repeopled from Scandinavia over ocean way, why should Carices be the chief things brought?
2739Surely, can not an overwhelming mass of facts be brought against such a proposition?
2739Thank you for the Aristolochia and Viscum cases: what species were they?
2739The article begins with the following question:"First Reader-- Is Darwin''s theory atheistic or pantheistic?
2739The conviction that I was on the Tertiary strata was so strong by this time in my mind, that on the third day in the midst of lavas and[?
2739The experiment seems to me worth trying: what do you think?
2739The latter strikes me thus: why should plants and insects have been so extensively changed and birds not at all?
2739The two words marked[?]
2739This is a comfortable arrangement, is it not?"
2739This letter goes the same way, so that if in course of due time you do not receive the box, will you be kind enough to write to Falmouth?
2739To this it is sufficient to reply, was your primordial organism, or were your four or five progenitors created as egg, seed, or full grown?
2739Was the flesh at all sweet?
2739Was there anything to show that the stigma was ready for pollen in these two cases?
2739What are you doing now?
2739What can be the meaning or use of the great diversity of the external generative organs in your cases, in Bombus, and the phytophagous coleoptera?
2739What can there be in the act of copulation necessitating such complex and diversified apparatus?
2739What do you think?
2739What does Austen make the date of the Channel?--ante or post Glacial?"
2739What good would their perfected senses and their intellect serve under such conditions?
2739What makes H. Watson a renegade?
2739What was it?
2739What will the end be?
2739When is your great work to make its appearance?
2739When shall I see a memoir on Insular floras, and on the Pacific?
2739Where is it published?
2739Where, then, was the edge or coast- line of it, Atlantic- wards?
2739Why could not you come over, on the urgent invitation given to European savans-- and free passage provided back and forth in the steamers?
2739Why did he not put his facts before us, and let them rest?''"
2739Why do the plants of Porto Santo and Madeira agree so nearly?
2739Why do we obey conscience or feel pain in disobeying it?
2739Why do you not let me buy the Indian Flora?
2739Why has nobody thought of trying the experiment before, instead of taking it for granted that salt water kills seeds?
2739Why should the one class of phenomena be without end or utility, a mere effect of contingency or chance, more than the other?"
2739Why should you or I speak of variation as having been ordained and guided, more than does an astronomer, in discussing the fall of a meteoric stone?
2739Will Owen answer you?
2739Will they pay at the Royal Institution for copying on a large size drawings of these birds?
2739Will you be so kind as to read the enclosed, and return it to me?
2739Will you endeavour to screw out time and grant me this favour?
2739Will you grant me the favour of giving me any clue, where I could see the book?
2739Will you just tell me roughly the result?
2739Will you look through these printed lists, and if you can, mark with red cross such as you would suggest?
2739Will you not come next year, if a special invitation is sent you on the same terms?
2739Will you receive it, and it could be left at my brother''s?
2739Will you some time have to examine the Chalk and its junction with London Clay and Greensand?
2739Will you think over this and let me hear the result?
2739With respect to areas with numerous"individually durable"forms, can it be said that they generally present a"broken"surface with"impassable barriers"?
2739With respect to naturalised plants: are any social with you, which are not so in their parent country?
2739Without going into any details, is not this a strong general argument?
2739Would Lindley hear of and dislike being proposed for the Copley and not succeeding?
2739Would it not be a good rebuff to ask him how he knows there were trees at all on the leafless plains of La Plata for his Mylodons to tear down?
2739Would it not be better on this view to propose him for the Royal?
2739Would it not be very interesting to know how the gall- makers behaved with respect to these hybrids?
2739Would it not be well for you to put yourself in communication with him, as otherwise something will perhaps be twice laboured over?
2739Would it not pay for a collector to go there, especially if aided by any subscription?
2739Would not my argument about wingless insular insects perhaps apply to truly Alpine insects?
2739Would not the southern end of Chiloe make a good division for you?
2739Would this be in time?
2739Would you believe it?
2739Would you kindly answer me two or three questions if in your power?
2739Would you not call this theological pedantry or display?
2739Yet who could discover it?
2739You also forget an author who, by means of atolls, contrived to submerge archipelagoes( or continents?
2739You ask about the skipping of the Zoea stage in fresh- water decapods: is this an illustration of acceleration?
2739You have, however, Ranunculus repens, Ranunculus parviflorus, Papaver rhoeas,?
2739You may say, Then why trouble me?
2739You speak as if only land- shells differed in Madeira and Porto Santo: does my memory deceive me that there is a host of representative insects?
2739You speak of evergreen vegetation as leading to few or confined conditions; but is not evergreen vegetation connected with humid and equable climate?
2739Your fact of greater number of European plants( N.B.--But do you mean greater percentage?)
2739Your oak and chestnut case seems very curious; is it not the more so as beeches have gone to, or come from the south?
2739[ 1862?]
2739[ July?, 1841?].
2739[ July?, 1841?].
2739]); and is it right to include American islands like Juan Fernandez and Galapagos?
2739a large body of considerations on the other side, that this genus could not have been slowly accustomed to a cooler climate?
2739and Java belong to the same botanical region-- i.e., that they have many non- littoral species in common?
2739and is it not very surprising that New Zealand, so much nearer to Australia than South America, should have an intermediate flora?
2739and would not the accumulation of a large number of slight differences of this kind lead to a great difference in the grade of organisation?
2739for distant[?]
2739for would it not be destruction to them to be blown from their proper home?
2739has surprised me much; do you not think it odd, the fewness of peculiar species, and their rarity on the alpine heights?
2739how at the first start of life, when there were only the simplest organisms, how did any complication of organisation profit them?
2739how can you speak so of a living real Duke?)
2739if not, perhaps I had better close with this proposal-- what do you think?
2739if so, and the case is given briefly, would you have the great kindness to copy it?
2739in the"Scotsman"( lent me by Horner)?
2739incidentally mentioned in a letter to me that the heaths at the Cape of Good Hope were very variable, whilst in Europe they are(?)
2739is inimitably adapted to favour crossing, I have never yet met with but one instance of a NATURAL MONGREL( nor mule?)
2739not founded on mere artificial characters?
2739of years had elapsed, and after such migration to milder seas?
2739or can you explain in one or two sentences how I err?
2739or is it because no chasms or boundaries can be drawn separating the many species?
2739or is it one of the many utterly inexplicable problems in botanical geography?
2739so that does the state of knowledge allow a pretty fair comparison?
2739surely does not Madeira abound with peculiar forms?
2739the lecture]?
2739together again; but had you not better wait till they are a little cooled?
2739was ordained and"guided by an intelligent cause?"
2739were found in most parts) in their respective countries?
2739which lie nearest to the continent have a much stronger African character than the others, ought you not just to allude to this?
2739with seed in its crop, and it would swim?"
2739with this reflection,"What is the good of writing a thundering big book, when everything is in this green little book, so despicable for its size?"