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• In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
• I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range…
• Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The…
• Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now…
• It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their…
• The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously…
• This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal…
• Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis…

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