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The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now…
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The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for…
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The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately…
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Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.
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Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.
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Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one…
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Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network…
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Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate…
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable…
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Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it…
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To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of…
— Thomas Merton
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Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a…
— Michael Leunig
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But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional…
— Richard J. Foster
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I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
— Richard Owen
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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