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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as…
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and…
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It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully…
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I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who…
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The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental…
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount…
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would…
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We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent…
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We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played.
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The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which…
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All that a spectator gets out of the game is fresh air, the comical articles in his program, the sight of twenty-two…
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Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and…
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Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a…
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