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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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Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports…
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
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But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test…
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Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or…
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We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive,…
— Adolphe Quetelet
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Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion…
— Hannes Alfven
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Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of…
— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
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Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.
— Philip K. Dick
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and…
— V.S. Naipaul
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In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but,…
— Plato
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength…
— Samuel Johnson
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The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to…
— Alistair Cooke
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The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken…
— Henry James Sumner Maine
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Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in…
— Bill Richardson
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