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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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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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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…
— Richard Owen
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It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture…
— Galileo Galilei
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There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all…
— Unknown Author
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Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification
— Robert Smithson
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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
— Albert Camus
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MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
— Samuel Johnson
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Many things there be in the scripture, which have a carnal fulfilling, even there where they be spoken or done; and yet…
— William Tyndale
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Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense
— David Hume
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Even if you don't like colours, you will end up having something red. For everyone who doesn't like colour, red is a…
— Christian Louboutin
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