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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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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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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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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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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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Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.
— Richard Owen
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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls…
— Winston Churchill
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My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that,…
— Sherman Alexie
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Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes.…
— Rollo May
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The health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television and our…
— Edward Albee
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An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name.
— Rene Magritte
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Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a…
— J. G. Ballard
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The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is responsible for lumbago as well as for…
— Wilhelm Reich
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