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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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Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the…
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If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important…
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In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which…
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When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.
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If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal…
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and…
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The subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we…
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In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was…
— J L Austin
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We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no…
— William Henry Harrison
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We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have…
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If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and…
— George Berkeley
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When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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