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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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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only…
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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
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Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.
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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 gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes…
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The universe exists under a reign of eternal law, surpassing the imperfect laws of human government. Such orderliness, such domination by law,…
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Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to…
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The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord.…
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Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is…
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