This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| 2924 | What will come of a variation when you breed from it, when Atavism comes, if I may say so, to intersect variation? |
| 2921 | But can we go no further than that? |
| 2921 | But where does the grass, or the oat, or any other plant, obtain this nourishing food- producing material? |
| 2921 | Is there among the plants the same primitive form of organization, and is that identical with that of the animal kingdom? |
| 2921 | What is he doing? |
| 2923 | And the second is: How has it been perpetuated? |
| 2923 | But what more have we to guide us in nine- tenths of the most important affairs of daily life than hypotheses, and often very ill- based ones? |
| 2923 | How do you know that the laws of Nature are not suspended during the night? |
| 2923 | How do you know that the man who really made the marks took the spoons? |
| 2923 | The first is: How has organic or living matter commenced its existence? |
| 2923 | What are those inductions and deductions, and how have you got at this hypothesis? |
| 2923 | Your friend says to you,"But how do you know that?" |
| 2923 | said his opponents;"but what do you know you may be doing when you heat the air over the water in this way? |
| 2922 | But to how much has man really access? |
| 2922 | But what does this attempt to construct a universal history of the globe imply? |
| 2922 | How, then, is mud formed? |
| 2922 | If you find any record of changes taking place at''b'', did they occur before any events which took place while''a''was being deposited? |
| 2922 | Is this sound reasoning? |
| 2922 | Now, how many of those are absolutely extinct? |
| 2922 | Now, what is the effect of this oscillation? |
| 2922 | That is to say, how many of these orders of animals have lived at a former period of the world''s history, but have at present no representatives? |
| 2930 | And, after all, is it quite so certain that a genetic relation may not underlie the classification of minerals? |
| 2930 | But is the analogy a real one? |
| 2930 | Did M. Flourens ever visit one of the prettiest watering- places of"la belle France,"the Baie d''Arcachon? |
| 2930 | For what are the phenomena of Agamogenesis, stated generally? |
| 2930 | How then is the production of new species to be rendered intelligible by the analogy of Agamogenesis? |
| 2930 | O solidite de l''esprit Francais, que devenez- vous?" |
| 2930 | O solidite de l''esprit Francais, que devenez- vous?" |
| 2930 | What are these"dunes"? |
| 2089 | Are these new species created by the production, at long intervals, of an offspring different in species from the parents? |
| 2089 | Are they gradually evolved from some embryo substance? |
| 2089 | But probably the best answer to those who talk of Darwinism meaning the reign of"chance,"is to ask them what they themselves understand by"chance"? |
| 2089 | Do they believe that anything in this universe happens without reason or without a cause? |
| 2089 | Or are the species so created produced without parents? |
| 2089 | Or do they suddenly start from the ground, as in the creation of the poet?... |
| 2925 | Are natural causes competent to play the part of selection in perpetuating varieties? |
| 2925 | But is the like true of the physiological characteristics of animals? |
| 2925 | But the question now is:--Does selection take place in nature? |
| 2925 | Can we find any approximation to this in the different races known to be produced by selective breeding from a common stock? |
| 2925 | Do the physiological differences of varieties amount in degree to those observed between forms which naturalists call distinct species? |
| 2925 | Now, the next problem that lies before us-- and it is an extremely important one-- is this: Does this selective breeding occur in nature? |
| 2925 | Now, what is the result of all this? |
| 2925 | The first question of course is, Do they thus return to the primitive stock? |
| 2925 | What will be the result, then? |
| 2925 | What, then, takes place? |
| 2925 | is there anything like the operation of man in exercising selective breeding, taking place in nature? |
| 2926 | But has this been done? |
| 2926 | But in the next place comes a much more difficult inquiry:--Are the causes indicated competent to give rise to the phenomena of organic nature? |
| 2926 | But what proportion is there between the structural alteration and the functional result? |
| 2926 | In the first place, do these supposed causes of the phenomena exist in nature? |
| 2926 | So what is the use of what you have done?" |
| 2926 | What is Mr. Darwin''s hypothesis? |
| 2926 | What is it that constitutes and makes man what he is? |
| 2926 | What is this very speech that we are talking about? |
| 2926 | What meaning has this fact upon any other hypothesis or supposition than one of successive modification? |
| 2926 | or what is really the state of the case? |
| 2929 | But suppose we prefer to admit our ignorance rather than adopt a hypothesis at variance with all the teachings of Nature? |
| 2929 | Is it any more than a grandiloquent way of announcing the fact, that we really know nothing about the matter? |
| 2929 | Is it satisfactorily proved, in fact, that species may be originated by selection? |
| 2929 | Is there any test of a physiological species? |
| 2929 | Or, suppose for a moment we admit the explanation, and then seriously ask ourselves how much the wiser are we; what does the explanation explain? |
| 2929 | Shall Biology alone remain out of harmony with her sister sciences? |
| 2929 | What if species should offer residual phenomena, here and there, not explicable by natural selection? |
| 2929 | What if the orbit of Darwinism should be a little too circular? |
| 2929 | that none of the phenomena exhibited by species are inconsistent with the origin of species in this way? |
| 2929 | that there is such a thing as natural selection? |
| 31316 | And Wallace-- what was the line taken by him in the unfortunate complication that had thus arisen? |
| 31316 | And, under what circumstances were they able to produce the works which so profoundly affected the opinions of the day? |
| 31316 | His great friend Lord Palmerston, on being greeted with the question,''Have you read my last pamphlet?'' |
| 31316 | How has this revolution in thought-- the greatest which has occurred in modern times-- been brought about? |
| 31316 | Speaking to his fellow geologists in 1869 he said,''Which of us has not thumbed every page of the_ Principles of Geology_[78]?'' |
| 31316 | Was he not poking fun at other hypotheses besides his own? |
| 31316 | What could be the meaning of this wonderful analogy? |
| 31316 | What manner of men were they who were the leaders in this great movement? |
| 31316 | What shall a man desire more than this[145]?'' |
| 31316 | What the influences that led them to discard the old views and adopt new ones? |
| 18521 | But how is this to be proved? |
| 18521 | But the perplexing inquiry is, whence did the successive grades of animals emerge? |
| 18521 | Does not this savour of a vain research, or of a laudable thirst for knowledge? |
| 18521 | Does the author recoil from his work? |
| 18521 | How after wards came this unformed mass to be like our earth, to be covered with motion and organization, with life and general felicity? |
| 18521 | How different are the species of the red cabbage and the cauliflower; who would have expected them to be varieties of the wild_ brassica oleracea_? |
| 18521 | Is it a geological fact, since life began, that the earth has_ simultaneously_ undergone throughout its entire surface the revolutions assigned to it? |
| 18521 | It might be as reasonably asked, whence did the lower classes come? |
| 18521 | Now the great question arises-- whence, by what power, or by what law, were these reiterated transitions brought about? |
| 18521 | RESEMBLES, IN_ Invertebrata._ 1 Infusoria_ Traces of Infusoria_(?) |
| 18521 | Suppose a planet formed by the author''s process, what kind of a body would it be? |
| 18521 | Then says Reason, if they occur in orchidaceous plants, why should they not also occur in corn plants? |
| 18521 | To the allusion in the last sentence there can be no demur; that there is"natural order or law"in creation who will contest? |
| 18521 | Were the organized species of one geological epoch, by some long- continued agency of natural causes, transmuted into other and succeeding species? |
| 18521 | What was its pre- existing state? |
| 18521 | What, for instance, with the remotest semblance of certainty, can be predicated of the stellar orbs? |
| 18521 | or were there an extinction of species, and a replacement of them by others, through special and miraculous acts of creation? |
| 18521 | or, if that be answered, how or whence was that preceding state educed, for it, too, must have had one prior to it? |
| 29739 | And could a more striking illustration of the value of the study of insects possibly be instanced? |
| 29739 | But how, as the generations of the flowers succeeded one another, did differences so striking come about? |
| 29739 | But if what lies below the horse''s"knee"thus corresponds to the middle finger in ourselves, what has become of the four other fingers or digits? |
| 29739 | But who ever formed an engaging acquaintance without wishing it might become a close friendship? |
| 29739 | Can it be that both kinds of flowers are descended from forms resembling each other in want of grace and colour? |
| 29739 | Do they believe that at each supposed act of creation one individual or many were produced? |
| 29739 | Does nature descend to imposture or masquerade? |
| 29739 | For what flower, however meek and lowly, could ever tell its story in plain black and white? |
| 29739 | How did plants of so diverse families turn the tables on the insect world, and learn to eat instead of being themselves devoured? |
| 29739 | Of what avail is all this seed if it falls as it ripens upon soil already overcrowded with its kind? |
| 29739 | Or, instead of the camera, why not at first invoke the brush and colour- box? |
| 29739 | PREFACE To gather stones and fallen boughs is soon to ask, what may be done with them, can they be piled and fastened together for shelter? |
| 29739 | Were all the infinite numerous kinds of animals and plants created as eggs or seed, or as full grown? |
| 29739 | What family tie is betrayed in all this? |
| 29739 | What is the meaning of this strange travesty? |
| 29739 | What new riches, therefore, may we not expect from the culture of the future? |
| 29739 | What we desire to know is, is it a fact that evolution took place? |
| 29739 | When Darwin was confronted with an organ or trait which puzzled him, he was wo nt to ask, What use can it have had? |
| 29739 | When, so very easily, it can regale itself with food ready to hand why should it take the trouble to drudge for a living? |
| 29739 | Which of us would thrive on milk at the rate of a pint to five hogsheads of water? |
| 29739 | Who can explain what is the essence of the attraction of gravity? |
| 29739 | Why, it may be asked, until recently did nearly all the most eminent living naturalists and geologists disbelieve in the mutability of species? |
| 29739 | [ Illustration: Sage- flower and Bee] Bountifully to spread a table is much, but not enough, for without invitation how can hospitality be dispensed? |
| 29739 | [ Illustration: Shut for Slaughter] Now the question is, How came about this strange and somewhat horrid means of livelihood? |
| 29739 | [ Illustration: Twig of olive infected with Black Scale] Is it any wonder, then, that the fluted scales soon began to disappear? |
| 29739 | and in the case of mammals, were they created bearing the false marks of nourishment from the mother''s womb? |
| 1043 | Are we evolving to- day? |
| 1043 | But how can we see any trace of an Annelid ancestor in the vastly different frames of these animals which are said to descend from it? |
| 1043 | But what higher types of life issued from the womb of nature after so long and painful a travail? |
| 1043 | Can we suggest any reasons why brain should be especially developed in the apes, and more particularly still in the ancestors of man? |
| 1043 | Do they point downward to lower forms, and upward to higher forms, as the theory of evolution requires? |
| 1043 | Do we find a similar destruction of life, and selection of higher types, after the Pleistocene perturbation? |
| 1043 | Do we find them at work in the Pleistocene? |
| 1043 | Have we not said that nothing remains of the procession of organisms during half the earth''s story but a shapeless seam of carbon or limestone? |
| 1043 | How did these civilisations develop in Asia, and how is it that they have remained stagnant for ages, while Europe advanced? |
| 1043 | How much advance should we allow for these seven or fourteen million years of swarming life and changing environments? |
| 1043 | How, then, do we account for the wings of the insect? |
| 1043 | If humanity shared at first a common patrimony, why have the savages remained savages, and the barbarians barbaric? |
| 1043 | If man is a progressive animal, why has the progress been confined to some of the race? |
| 1043 | In particular, had it any appreciable effect upon the human species? |
| 1043 | Is man the last word of evolution? |
| 1043 | Must every step of future progress be won by fresh and sustained struggle? |
| 1043 | Or ought we to regard this change of structure as brought about by a few abrupt and considerable variations on the part of the young? |
| 1043 | The more important question is: How do astronomers conceive the condensation of this mixed mass of cosmic dust? |
| 1043 | Was it not a singular coincidence that in ALL cases the intermediate organisms between one type and another should have wholly escaped preservation? |
| 1043 | Was the eye shifted by the effort and straining of the fish, inherited and increased slightly in each generation? |
| 1043 | What came before the star? |
| 1043 | What is the meaning of stars whose light ebbs and flows in periods of from a few to several hundred days? |
| 1043 | What is the origin of the great gaseous nebulae? |
| 1043 | What is the origin of the triple or quadruple star? |
| 1043 | What is their relation to the stars? |
| 1043 | What was the origin of the fish? |
| 1043 | Whence came the new race and its culture? |
| 1043 | Why has progress been incarnated so exceptionally in the white section of the race, the Europeans? |
| 1043 | Why should Europe and North America in particular suffer so markedly from a general thinning of the atmosphere? |
| 6335 | What, then, is this order of Bimana of Blumenbach and Cuvier? 6335 ( asterisk) Equus( fossilis?). 6335 ( asterisk) Hippopotamus( major?). 6335 ( asterisk) Ursus( sp.?). 6335 Among these are the teeth of Elephas antiquus, determined by Dr. Falconer, and Rhinoceros leptorhinus? 6335 Are we then to conclude that differences in mental power have no intimate connection with the comparative volume of the brain? 6335 Cyclas( Pisidium) amnica var.(?) 6335 Cyclas( Pisidium) amnica var.? 6335 Equus asinus(?) 6335 In what manner then did the great lake- basins originate if they were not hollowed out by ice? 6335 Might not the births of new species, like the deaths of old ones, be sudden? 6335 Might they not still escape our observation? 6335 Ursus arctos? 6335 We might have anticipated a contrary leaning on the part of both, for to what does the theory of progression point? 6335 What evidence is there of such incessant variation in remoter times? 6335 Where are the memorials of all the intermediate dialects, which must have existed, if this doctrine of perpetual fluctuation be true? 6335 major? 44582 Apart from interferences of this class, are there any that may be reasonably invoked as modifying the course of inheritance? 44582 Are we not then on safer ground in regarding the fixity of our species as a property inherent in its own nature and constitution? 44582 As the collector passes from the plains to the Alpine region, how will he find the transition from one form to the other effected? 44582 But is that what we do find? 44582 But whence come the new dominants? 44582 But will such analysis cover all or even most of the ordinary cases of specific diversity between near allies? 44582 First came the broad question, were the facts of distribution consistent with the Doctrine of Descent? 44582 First how did the form under consideration come into existence, and secondly, how did it succeed in maintaining itself so as to become a race? 44582 How do they become integral parts of the organism? 44582 How is it possible to reconcile these facts with the view that specific distinction has no natural basis apart from environmental exigency? 44582 How then does it happen that the body of one of a pair of twins does not show a transposition of viscera? 44582 If so, may we again make the same supposition in all similar cases? 44582 In its most concrete form this problem is expressed in the question, how does a cell divide? 44582 Is it itself a plant of hybrid origin? 44582 Is it not time to abandon these fanciful expectations which are never realised? 44582 May we suppose that some extinct wild species had them? 44582 The first question is what is_ Oenothera Lamarckiana_? 44582 The problem would remain, how is the distinctness of the two types maintained in the region of overlapping? 44582 To do so is little gain, for we are left with the further problem, whence did those lost wild species acquire those dominants? 44582 What is a living thing? 44582 What more natural than to suppose that the permanent adaptations have been achieved by inherited summation of such responses? 44582 What then are the factors themselves? 44582 Whence came all these? 44582 Whence do they come? 44582 Whence, for example, came the power which is present in a White Leghorn of destroying-- probably reducing-- the pigment in its feathers? 7234 And what is it that makes us familiar with them? 7234 Are all mutations to be considered as limited to such periods? 7234 Are the older ones now in a better condition than at the outset? 7234 Are these types to be considered as elementary species, or only as individual differences? 7234 Are they to be expected to be equal to the unique quality of the parent, or perhaps to be the same as the average of the whole unselected race? 7234 Are we to conclude therefore that the main strain has died out? 7234 But what is a prototype? 7234 But why should they have done so, especially in cases of recent changes? 7234 Could it be affected to such a degree as to gradually lose the inactive quality, and cease to be a double race? 7234 Could not the plants of the second locality have arisen from seeds transported from the first? 7234 Could the mutation be repeated? 7234 ELEMENTARY SPECIES LECTURE II ELEMENTARY SPECIES IN NATURE What are species? 7234 Had it been present, though dormant in the original sample of seed? 7234 Had it commenced to mutate after its introduction into Europe, some time ago, or was it already previously in this state? 7234 Had the germ of the mutation lain hidden through all this time? 7234 Have they done so? 7234 Have they really been gradually improved during the centuries of their existence? 7234 How long had it been so? 7234 How many different conceptions are conveyed by the terms constancy and variability? 7234 How may this character have originated? 7234 How[ 568] great is the chance for a single individual to be destroyed in the struggle for life? 7234 If a distinct mutation from a given species is once possible, why should it not occur twice or thrice? 7234 If we are right in this general conception, we may ask further, what is to be the exact place of our group of new evening- primroses in this theory? 7234 In other words, would it have been possible to attain an average of 20 rows in a single experiment? 7234 Is it the minute inspection of the features of the process in the case of the evening- primroses? 7234 Is it the systematic study of species and varieties, and the biologic inquiry into their real hereditary units? 7234 Is the mutability of our evening- primroses temporary, or is it a permanent condition? 7234 Is the number of such germs to be supposed to be limited or unlimited? 7234 It has frequently succeeded for practical purposes, why should it not succeed as well for purely scientific investigation? 7234 Now who can assure us that the single root of a given beet is an average representative of the partial variability? 7234 Or are we to base our hopes and our methods on broader conceptions of nature''s laws? 7234 Or can the same mutation have been repeated at different times and in distant localities? 7234 Or had an entirely new creation taken place during my continuous endeavors? 7234 Or is it perhaps concealed among the throng, being distinguished by no peculiar character? 7234 Or is the theory of descent to be our starting- point? 7234 Perhaps as their more or less immediate result? 7234 The first point, is the question, which seeds become double- flowered and which single- flowered plants? 7234 Was it to be ascribed to some latent cause which might be operative more than once? 7234 Was the observed mutation to be explained by a common cause with the other cases recorded by field- observations? 7234 Was there some hidden tendency to mutation, which, ordinarily weak, was strengthened in my cultures by some unknown influence? 7234 What are species and what are varieties? 7234 What are the links which bind them together? 7234 What has to be ascertained on such occasions to give them scientific value? 7234 What is to guide us in the choice of the material? 7234 What is to guide us in this new line of work? 7234 When and how did it originate? 7234 Why then are they not met with more often? 7234 Will all of them do so, or only part of them, and how large a part? 7234 Will they keep true to the reverted character, or return to the characters of the plant which bears the retrograde branch? 7234 Would it be possible to obtain any imaginable deviation from the original type, and to reach independency from further selection? 7234 Would the race become changed thereby? 26260 Are any other beings ever found in such masses, but vermin? |
| 26260 | ***** In every field of thought then, two schools appear, that are divided on this: Must we forever be at heart high- grade simians? |
| 26260 | ***** In the far distant ages that lie before us what will be the result of this constant preoccupation with desire? |
| 26260 | ***** Yes, and even if we are permitted to have a long reign, and are not laid away with the failures, are we a success? |
| 26260 | A great blind force? |
| 26260 | A self- aware purposeful force then? |
| 26260 | Again, in the old Jewish Bible, what tempts the first pair? |
| 26260 | And how great a development could they attain to thereafter? |
| 26260 | And why? |
| 26260 | And would they have ever tried airships? |
| 26260 | Are they right? |
| 26260 | Bears or turtles? |
| 26260 | But wait: what is this in the corner? |
| 26260 | Could it have been a quite natural belief that they had already won? |
| 26260 | Dogs? |
| 26260 | Forget? |
| 26260 | Goats, then? |
| 26260 | If we owe this to passion, what follows? |
| 26260 | If we wanted to_ be_ Gods-- but ah, can we grasp that ambition? |
| 26260 | Is n''t it strange? |
| 26260 | Is that soul alive and loving? |
| 26260 | Is this one of the reasons why ants fight so much? |
| 26260 | Men, animals, insects-- what tribe of us asks any object, except to keep trying to satisfy its own master appetite? |
| 26260 | Or are we at heart something else? |
| 26260 | Or in industry: Why do factory workers produce more in eight hours a day than in ten? |
| 26260 | Our adventure may satisfy_ us_: does it satisfy Nature? |
| 26260 | Our airships may some day float over the hills of Arcturus, but how will that help us if we can not find the soul of the world? |
| 26260 | Pigs? |
| 26260 | Still, even in low social circles--_ THIRTEEN_ Are we or are we not simians? |
| 26260 | The elephant? |
| 26260 | What could you expect? |
| 26260 | What other such lust could exert great driving force? |
| 26260 | What was it then, that put them out of the race? |
| 26260 | When he added,"Why, these crowds,"I turned and asked,"Why, what about them?" |
| 26260 | Which group, we''d have wondered, would ever contrive to rule all the rest? |
| 26260 | Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?" |
| 26260 | Why do n''t we all die or give up when we''re sick of the world? |
| 26260 | Why should n''t creeds totter when they are jerry- built creeds? |
| 26260 | Why should you feel disappointment at something inevitable?" |
| 26260 | Why? |
| 26260 | Will it kill us or save us? |
| 26260 | Will this trait and our insatiable curiosity interact on each other? |
| 26260 | With us is it curiosity? |
| 26260 | Wolves, whales, crows? |
| 26260 | Would it after all be any more startling than our rise from the slime? |
| 26260 | _ SEVENTEEN_ What are the handicaps this race will have in building religions? |
| 26260 | endless interest in one''s environment? |
| 26260 | or callous? |
| 26260 | or cruel? |
| 26260 | or dead? |
| 6882 | Are any other beings ever found in such masses, but vermin? 6882 Grind and confinement?" |
| 6882 | So how can_ we_ help being that way? 6882 A great blind force? 6882 A self- aware purposeful force then? 6882 Again, in the old Jewish Bible, what tempts the first pair? 6882 And how great a development could they attain to thereafter? 6882 And why? 6882 And would they have ever tried airships? 6882 Are they right? 6882 Bears or turtles? 6882 But wait: what is this in the corner? 6882 Could it have been a quite natural belief that they had already won? 6882 Dogs? 6882 Forget? 6882 Goats, then? 6882 If we owe this to passion, what follows? 6882 If we wanted to_ be_ Gods-- but ah, can we grasp that ambition? 6882 In every field of thought then, two schools appear, that are divided on this: Must we forever be at heart high- grade simians? 6882 In the far distant ages that lie before us what will be the result of this constant preoccupation with desire? 6882 Is n''t it strange? 6882 Is that soul alive and loving? 6882 Is this one of the reasons why ants fight so much? 6882 Men, animals, insects-- what tribe of us asks any object, except to keep trying to satisfy its own master appetite? 6882 Or are we at heart something else? 6882 Or in industry: Why do factory workers produce more in eight hours a day than in ten? 6882 Our adventure may satisfy_ us:_ does it satisfy Nature? 6882 Our telescopes may some day disclose to us the hills of Arcturus, but how will that help us if we can not find the soul of the world? 6882 Pigs? 6882 Still, even in low social circles-- XIII Are we or are we not simians? 6882 The elephant? 6882 What could you expect? 6882 What other such lust could exert great driving force? 6882 What was it then, that put them out of the race? 6882 When he added,Why, these crowds,"I turned and asked,"Why, what about them?" |
| 6882 | Which group, we''d have wondered, would ever contrive to rule all the rest? |
| 6882 | Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?" |
| 6882 | Why do n''t we all die or give up when we''re sick of the world? |
| 6882 | Why should n''t creeds totter when they are jerry- built creeds? |
| 6882 | Why should you feel disappointment at something inevitable?" |
| 6882 | Why? |
| 6882 | Will it kill us or save us? |
| 6882 | Will this trait and our insatiable curiosity interact on each other? |
| 6882 | With us is it curiosity? |
| 6882 | Wolves, whales, crows? |
| 6882 | Would it after all be any more startling than our rise from the slime? |
| 6882 | XVII What are the handicaps this race will have in building religions? |
| 6882 | Yes, and even if we are permitted to have a long reign, and are not laid away with the failures, are we a success? |
| 6882 | endless interest in one''s environment? |
| 6882 | or callous? |
| 6882 | or cruel? |
| 6882 | or dead? |
| 20818 | Admitting then the existence of species, and of their successive evolution, is there anything in these ideas hostile to Christian belief? |
| 20818 | Again, how explain the external position of the male sexual glands in certain mammals? |
| 20818 | And even if one was so, what chance was there of the perpetuation of such a variation? |
| 20818 | Are new species now evolving, as they have been from time to time evolved? |
| 20818 | But are there any theological authorities to justify this view of the matter? |
| 20818 | But how to obtain the beginning of such useful development? |
| 20818 | But the question is, how have the highest kinds of animals and plants arisen? |
| 20818 | But what conceptions does he offer us? |
| 20818 | But why should not these changes take place suddenly in a state of nature? |
| 20818 | For how can gemmules attach themselves to others to which they do not normally or generally succeed? |
| 20818 | How, for example, does it explain the peculiar reproduction which is{ 211} found to take place in certain marine worms-- certain annelids? |
| 20818 | How, once more, can we conceive the peculiar actions of the tendrils of some climbing plants to have been produced by minute modifications? |
| 20818 | If it was that of the carinate birds, how did the struthious birds and Dinosauria independently agree to differ? |
| 20818 | If it was that of the struthious birds, how did the pterodactyles and carinate birds independently arrive at the very same divergent structure? |
| 20818 | If not, can anything that is positive, and if anything, what, be said as to the question of specific origination? |
| 20818 | If so, in what way and by what conceivable means? |
| 20818 | If, then, new species are and have been evolved from pre- existing material, must that material have been organic or inorganic? |
| 20818 | In face of such a spirit, can it be wondered at that disputants have grown warm? |
| 20818 | Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending intelligence and will, as these transcend mechanical motion?" |
| 20818 | Need we point out the contradictions which this position involves? |
| 20818 | Now even if it were demonstrated that such is really the case, it may be asked, what is"slow and gradual"? |
| 20818 | Now, if so,"how long would it take to obtain an elephant from a protozoon, or even from a tadpole- like fish? |
| 20818 | Ought it not to take much more than a million times as long? |
| 20818 | The one_ modus operandi_ yet suggested having been found insufficient, the question arises, Can another be substituted in its place? |
| 20818 | The problem then is,"by what combination of natural laws does a new''common nature''appear upon the scene of realized existence?" |
| 20818 | The question is, what is the cause of this"nutritional balancing"? |
| 20818 | What do we not owe, for example, to the labours of the Alchemists? |
| 20818 | What explanation can be offered of these phenomena? |
| 20818 | What wonder then that such an excessively complex body should divide and multiply; and what parity is there between such a body and a gemmule? |
| 20818 | [ 46] This process must have continued for ages constantly and perseveringly, and yet what is the fact? |
| 20818 | _ i.e._ how is an individual embodying such new characters produced? |
| 20818 | and if individuals alone exist, how can the differences which may be observed among them prove the variability of species?" |
| 20556 | But,he asks,"should we conclude from this that there has necessarily occurred a universal catastrophe, a general overturning? |
| 20556 | Can any of them be more striking than that which the_ kangaroo_ offers us? 20556 Can there be in natural history a consideration more important, and to which we should give more attention, than that which I have just stated? |
| 20556 | Even if the invention of printing had been more ancient than it is, what would have resulted at the end of ten thousand years? 20556 Has God limited his creations to the existence of only matter and nature? |
| 20556 | Have I not, at p. 412, put the vast distinction between you and Lamarck as to''necessary progression''strongly enough? |
| 20556 | I ask what experienced zoölogist or botanist is there who has not thoroughly realized that which I have just explained to you? 20556 Is not cultivated wheat(_ Triticum sativum_) only a plant brought by man into the condition in which we actually see it? |
| 20556 | Life is the result of organization.--(?) |
| 20556 | What is a spiritual being? 20556 Where occur in nature our cabbage, lettuce, etc., in the condition in which we see them in our kitchen- gardens? |
| 20556 | Why,he asks,"should not heat and electricity act on certain matters under favorable conditions and circumstances?" |
| 20556 | [ 112] From whom did he get this idea that seeds or eggs are envelopes of all sorts of germs? 20556 8^o)? 20556 After paying his respects to Priestley, he asks:What, then, can be the reason why the views of chemists and mine are so opposed?" |
| 20556 | Are they now found in this condition in nature? |
| 20556 | But can we not assign him laws in the execution of his will, and determine the method which he has followed in this respect? |
| 20556 | CHAPTER XV WHEN DID LAMARCK CHANGE HIS VIEWS REGARDING THE MUTABILITY OF SPECIES? |
| 20556 | De toute part on acclame le grand naturaliste, et''il n''y a pas même une rue portant son nom aux environs du Jardin des Plantes? |
| 20556 | Did Buffon''s guarded suggestions have no influence on the young Lamarck? |
| 20556 | Do you not confound the seminary with the ancient college of Rue Poste de Paris, college now destroyed?" |
| 20556 | Does not botany, which considers the other series, comprising the plants, offer us, in its different parts, a state of things perfectly similar? |
| 20556 | How impossible will it be to distinguish and lay down a line beyond which some of the so- called extinct species have never passed into recent ones?" |
| 20556 | How, he asks, can they reappear? |
| 20556 | In which of these views did Buffon really believe? |
| 20556 | Is it not more likely that these simple organisms are themselves regenerated? |
| 20556 | Is it not the same as regards a number of animals which domestication has changed or considerably modified? |
| 20556 | Is it satisfactorily proved, in fact, that species may be originated by selection? |
| 20556 | Is not wheat(_ Triticum sativum_) a plant brought by man to the state wherein we actually see it, which otherwise I could not believe? |
| 20556 | Qu''étaient nos connaissances à l''époque de De Lamarck sur les Polypiers? |
| 20556 | WHEN DID LAMARCK CHANGE HIS VIEWS REGARDING THE 226 MUTABILITY OF SPECIES? |
| 20556 | Was it negligence, was it the jealousy of his colleagues, was it the result of the troubles of 1830? |
| 20556 | Was this period of six years, between 1794 and 1800, given to a reconsideration of the subject resulting in favor of the doctrine of descent? |
| 20556 | What are the natural consequences of the influence and the movements of the waters on the surface of the globe? |
| 20556 | Who can now say in what place its like lives in nature? |
| 20556 | Why are only the two extremes living?" |
| 20556 | [ 254]"Does Natural Selection play any Part in the Origin of Species among Plants?" |
| 20556 | that none of the phenomena exhibited by species are inconsistent with the origin of species in this way? |
| 20556 | that there is such a thing as natural selection? |
| 2300 | ''Why do the women wear these things?'' |
| 2300 | ), passes over sexual selection, and asks,"What explanation does the law of natural selection give of such specific varieties as these?" |
| 2300 | ); Erithacus(? |
| 2300 | ; but who can say at what age this occurs in our young children? |
| 2300 | A friend of his asked one of these men,"How is it that every one whom I meet is so fine looking, not only your men but your women?" |
| 2300 | Are partridges, as they are now coloured, better protected than if they had resembled quails? |
| 2300 | Are we not justified in believing that the female exerts a choice, and that she receives the addresses of the male who pleases her most? |
| 2300 | Are we to suppose that these black marks and the crimson colour of the eyes have been preserved or augmented through sexual selection in the males? |
| 2300 | At what age does the new- born infant possess the power of abstraction, or become self- conscious, and reflect on its own existence? |
| 2300 | But can this be so confidently said of sexual selection? |
| 2300 | But what are we to conclude with respect to certain birds in which, for instance, the eyes differ slightly in colour in the two sexes? |
| 2300 | But what are we to say about the rudimentary and variable vertebrae of the terminal portion of the tail, forming the os coccyx? |
| 2300 | Can it be believed that they would thus act to no purpose during their courtship? |
| 2300 | Do the races or species of men, whichever term may be applied, encroach on and replace one another, so that some finally become extinct? |
| 2300 | Does the male parade his charms with so much pomp and rivalry for no purpose? |
| 2300 | Foetus of an Orang(?). |
| 2300 | How are such races distributed over the world; and how, when crossed, do they react on each other in the first and succeeding generations? |
| 2300 | How is it that there are birds enough ready to replace immediately a lost mate of either sex? |
| 2300 | How often do we see birds which fly easily, gliding and sailing through the air obviously for pleasure? |
| 2300 | How then are we to account for male mammals possessing mammae? |
| 2300 | How, then, are we to account for the beautiful or even gorgeous colours of many animals in the lowest classes? |
| 2300 | It may well be asked, could such artistically shaded ornaments have been formed by means of sexual selection? |
| 2300 | It would be no advantage and some loss of power if each sex searched for the other; but why should the male almost always be the seeker? |
| 2300 | May we then infer that man became divested of hair from having aboriginally inhabited some tropical land? |
| 2300 | Must we attribute all these appendages of hair or skin to mere purposeless variability in the male? |
| 2300 | Now do not these actions clearly shew that she had in her mind a general idea or concept that some animal is to be discovered and hunted? |
| 2300 | Now, what is the difference between such actions, when performed by an uncultivated man, and by one of the higher animals? |
| 2300 | Now, what must we conclude with respect to such sexual differences as these? |
| 2300 | On the eastern coast, the negro boys when they saw Burton, cried out,"Look at the white man; does he not look like a white ape?" |
| 2300 | On the west coast of Africa the little black- weavers( Ploceus?) |
| 2300 | Or are we to suppose that the females of these several species especially require spurs for their defence? |
| 2300 | Or does she exert a choice, and prefer certain males? |
| 2300 | We are naturally led to enquire, where was the birthplace of man at that stage of descent when our progenitors diverged from the Catarrhine stock? |
| 2300 | What ancient nation, as the same author asks, can be named that was originally monogamous? |
| 2300 | What is this but energy and perseverance?) |
| 2300 | What kind of a person would she be without the pelele? |
| 2300 | What then are we to conclude from these facts and considerations? |
| 2300 | What, then, are we to conclude in regard to the many fishes, both sexes of which are splendidly coloured? |
| 2300 | When I say to my terrier, in an eager voice( and I have made the trial many times),"Hi, hi, where is it?" |
| 2300 | Who can doubt that the refusal to fight a duel through fear has caused many men an agony of shame? |
| 2300 | Why do not such spare birds immediately pair together? |
| 2300 | Why should a man feel that he ought to obey one instinctive desire rather than another? |
| 2300 | or why does he regret having stolen food from hunger? |
| 2300 | who after asking, does man originate in a different way from a dog, bird, frog or fish? |
| 19192 | And where are the Egyptians? |
| 19192 | But where are the Israelites? |
| 19192 | He who fashioned the eye, shall not He see? 19192 What is that?" |
| 19192 | [ 23] Ought not this to settle the matter? 19192 [ 60] We have thus arrived at the answer to our question, What is Darwinism? |
| 19192 | And which of you by taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? |
| 19192 | As the question, What is matter? |
| 19192 | But do he and his associates let metaphysics and religion alone? |
| 19192 | But may not this inference be presumptuous? |
| 19192 | But what is life but one form of the organizing efficiency of God? |
| 19192 | But what is to be thought of the special relation of Mr. Darwin''s theory to the truths of natural and revealed religion? |
| 19192 | But who can believe that all the plants and animals which have ever existed upon the face of the earth, have been evolved from one such germ? |
| 19192 | FOOTNOTES:[ 16] The question is not, as Mr. Wallace says,"How has the Creator worked?" |
| 19192 | Have we any right to assume that the Creator works by intellectual powers like those of man? |
| 19192 | Have we not here the manifestation of a mind as powerful as prolific? |
| 19192 | He asks the question, What is Matter? |
| 19192 | He set before himself a single problem, namely, How are the fauna and flora of our earth to be accounted for? |
| 19192 | He starts the question, What is it that thinks? |
| 19192 | He that formed the ear shall not He hear?" |
| 19192 | How does Haeckel know that his senses do not deceive him? |
| 19192 | How does he know that he can trust to the operations of his intellect? |
| 19192 | How does he know that the universe is not a great phantasmagoria, as so many men have regarded it, and man the mere sport of chimeras? |
| 19192 | How does he know that things are as they appear? |
| 19192 | How then is it, that what was scientifically false in 1844 is scientifically true in 1864? |
| 19192 | If any modification of structure could be the result of law, why not all? |
| 19192 | If any varieties of color, why not all the varieties we see? |
| 19192 | If life owes its origin to creative power, why not species? |
| 19192 | If some self- adaptations should arise, why not others? |
| 19192 | If we admit the similarity of structure in all vertebrates, must we admit the evolution of one from another, and all from a primordial germ? |
| 19192 | If, then, the object perceived is self, what is the subject that perceives? |
| 19192 | In this same article Mr. Huxley says:"Elijah''s great question, Will ye serve God or Baal? |
| 19192 | Indeed, is not the whole faculty of reproduction intended to introduce a new life- process? |
| 19192 | Is it not in its nature in the highest degree teleological? |
| 19192 | Is it satisfactorily proved that species may[20] be originated by selection? |
| 19192 | Is this all chance work? |
| 19192 | It should be premised that this paper was written for the single purpose of answering the question, What is Darwinism? |
| 19192 | Must we also admit their explanations and inferences? |
| 19192 | Now, I ask Mr. Darwin himself, what interest has he in maintaining that natural selection is not guided-- not directed? |
| 19192 | Now, as Darwin says it took millions of years to bring the eye to perfection, how long did it take to render a rudimental wing useful? |
| 19192 | Or if it is the true self which thinks, what other self can it be that is thought of? |
| 19192 | Ought not this to satisfy scientific men? |
| 19192 | So it has been asked, if man can make a telescope, why can not God make a telescope which produces others like itself? |
| 19192 | That is one thing; but the next thing is, does such a doctrine as that accord either with revelation or with the facts of science? |
| 19192 | The question is, How are the contrivances in nature to be accounted for? |
| 19192 | The question, therefore, What is Darwinism? |
| 19192 | The whole question is, How are we to account for the innumerable varieties, kinds, and genera of plants and animals, including man? |
| 19192 | This is simply asking, whether matter can be made to do the work of mind? |
| 19192 | To what causes are the changes we witness around us to be referred? |
| 19192 | Were they intended? |
| 19192 | What are the origin, nature, and destiny of man? |
| 19192 | What does he give us in exchange? |
| 19192 | What interest has he in substituting accidental causes for every final cause? |
| 19192 | What is attraction without molecules attracting each other? |
| 19192 | What is contractibility without muscular fibre, or secretion without a secreting gland? |
| 19192 | What is electricity without an electrified body? |
| 19192 | What is his law of heredity? |
| 19192 | What physical law, or uniformly acting force, operated to make the axe float at the command of the prophet? |
| 19192 | What then are the earliest known vertebrates? |
| 19192 | What was its origin? |
| 19192 | What, it is asked, is motion without something moving? |
| 19192 | When a man looks at a dissected insect and examines its strings of eggs, and asks, Whence are they? |
| 19192 | When asked, Where are the immediate predecessors of these new species? |
| 19192 | When asked, Where are their immediate successors? |
| 19192 | When asked, what kind of evidence would satisfy him? |
| 19192 | When it is further asked, Why are they there? |
| 19192 | Whence do they come? |
| 19192 | Why do n''t he say, they are the product of the divine intelligence? |
| 19192 | Why is this? |
| 19192 | Why is this? |
| 19192 | Why should like beget like? |
| 19192 | [ 14] What can the word"imagination"mean in this sentence, if it does not mean"Common Sense?" |
| 19192 | an act of intelligence as sublime as provident? |
| 19192 | or, Did they arise from the gradual accumulations of unintentional variations? |
| 19192 | public domain works from the University of Michigan Digital Libraries) WHAT IS DARWINISM? |
| 19192 | that none of the phenomena exhibited by species are inconsistent with the origin of species in this way? |
| 19192 | the marks of goodness as infinite as wise? |
| 19192 | the most palpable demonstration of the existence of a personal God, author of all this; ruler of the universe, and the dispenser of all good? |
| 22764 | And what are varieties but groups of forms, unequally related to each other, and clustered round certain forms-- that is, round their parent- species? |
| 22764 | As man can produce and certainly has produced a great result by his methodical and unconscious means of selection, what may not Nature effect? |
| 22764 | But have we any right to assume that things have thus remained from the beginning of this world? |
| 22764 | But how, it may be asked, can any analogous principle apply in nature? |
| 22764 | But in the intermediate region, having intermediate conditions of life, why do we not now find closely- linking intermediate varieties? |
| 22764 | But may not this inference be presumptuous? |
| 22764 | But what is meant by this system? |
| 22764 | Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for climbing trees and for seizing insects in the chinks of the bark? |
| 22764 | Can the principle of selection, which we have seen is so potent in the hands of man, apply in nature? |
| 22764 | Do they believe that at each supposed act of creation one individual or many were produced? |
| 22764 | Have we any right to assume that the Creator works by intellectual powers like those of man? |
| 22764 | How will the struggle for existence, discussed too briefly in the last chapter, act in regard to variation? |
| 22764 | How, then, comes it that such a vast number of the seedlings are mongrelized? |
| 22764 | How, then, does the lesser difference between varieties become augmented into the greater difference between species? |
| 22764 | It may well be asked how is it possible to reconcile this case with the theory of natural selection? |
| 22764 | Look at a plant in the midst of its range, why does it not double or quadruple its numbers? |
| 22764 | Now do these complex and singular rules indicate that species have been endowed with sterility simply to prevent their becoming confounded in nature? |
| 22764 | Now what does this remarkable law of the succession of the same types within the same areas mean? |
| 22764 | Thirdly, can instincts be acquired and modified through natural selection? |
| 22764 | Were all the infinitely numerous kinds of animals and plants created as eggs or seed, or as full grown? |
| 22764 | What can be more extraordinary than these well- ascertained facts? |
| 22764 | What can be plainer than that the webbed feet of ducks and geese are formed for swimming? |
| 22764 | What now are we to say to these several facts? |
| 22764 | What reason, it may be asked, is there for supposing in these cases that two individuals ever concur in reproduction? |
| 22764 | Who can explain why one species ranges widely and is very numerous, and why another allied species has a narrow range and is rare? |
| 22764 | Why are not all organic beings blended together in an inextricable chaos? |
| 22764 | Why do we not find great piles of strata beneath the Silurian system, stored with the remains of the progenitors of the Silurian groups of fossils? |
| 22764 | Why does not every collection of fossil remains afford plain evidence of the gradation and mutation of the forms of life? |
| 22764 | Why is not all nature in confusion instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined? |
| 22764 | Why should not Nature have taken a leap from structure to structure? |
| 22764 | Why should similar bones have been created in the formation of the wing and leg of a bat, used as they are for such totally different purposes? |
| 22764 | Why should the brain be enclosed in a box composed of such numerous and such extraordinary shaped pieces of bone? |
| 22764 | Why should the degree of sterility be innately variable in the individuals of the same species? |
| 22764 | Why should there often be so great a difference in the result of a reciprocal cross between the same two species? |
| 22764 | Why should this be so? |
| 22764 | Why should this be so? |
| 22764 | Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? |
| 22764 | Why, it may be asked, has the supposed creative force produced bats and no other mammals on remote islands? |
| 22764 | Why, it may be asked, have all the most eminent living naturalists and geologists rejected this view of the mutability of species? |
| 22764 | Why, it may even be asked, has the production of hybrids been permitted? |
| 22764 | Why, on the theory of Creation, should this be so? |
| 22764 | Would the just- hatched young occasionally crawl on and adhere to the feet of birds roosting on the ground, and thus get transported? |
| 22764 | and in the case of mammals, were they created bearing the false marks of nourishment from the mother''s womb? |
| 22764 | if that between America and Europe is ample, will that between the Continent and the Azores, or Madeira, or the Canaries, or Ireland, be sufficient? |
| 15707 | ---- Aurea duræ Mala ferant quercus? |
| 15707 | And does not your favorite dog expect you should give him his daily food, for his services and attention to you? |
| 15707 | And that the productive living filament of each of those tribes was different originally from the other? |
| 15707 | And thus barters his love for your protection? |
| 15707 | And what can influence or govern these actions of the gland, but its associations or catenations with other sensitive motions? |
| 15707 | Another objector may ask, Can the motion of an organ of sense resemble an odour or a colour? |
| 15707 | Are not those palsies and apoplexies more dangerous which commence many days before the syzygies of the moon, than those which happen at those times? |
| 15707 | As all our ideas are originally received by our senses, the question may be changed to, whether vegetables possess any organs of sense? |
| 15707 | Can the skilful change of architecture in these birds and the sparrows above mentioned be governed by instinct? |
| 15707 | Can this be effected by any specific attraction? |
| 15707 | Could oiling or painting the skin give a check to this disease? |
| 15707 | Could those symptoms be owing to very extensive adhesions of the lungs? |
| 15707 | Do not palsies and apoplexies, which occur about the equinoxes, happen a few days before the vernal equinoctial lunation, and after the autumnal one? |
| 15707 | Do not the dropsies of the thorax and pericardium frequently exist together, and thus add to the uncertainty and fatality of the disease? |
| 15707 | Do the universal sweats distinguish the dropsy of the pericardium, or of the thorax? |
| 15707 | Does not this evince that all our ideas are excited in the brain, and not in the organs of sense? |
| 15707 | Does not this give an idea, that if they were both inoculated at the same time, that neither of them might affect the patient? |
| 15707 | Does this circumstance distinguish the dropsy of the pericardium from that of the lungs and of the thorax? |
| 15707 | For about what can the fetus deliberate, when it has no choice of objects? |
| 15707 | For if the female be supposed to form an equal part of the embryon, why should she form the whole of the apparatus for nutriment and for oxygenation? |
| 15707 | How do either of them know, that the other exists in their vicinity? |
| 15707 | I ask, by what means are the anthers in many flowers, and stigmas in other flowers, directed to find their paramours? |
| 15707 | I ask, in my turn, is the sex of the embryon produced by accident? |
| 15707 | If it should be asked, what induces a bird to sit weeks on its first eggs unconscious that a brood of young ones will be the product? |
| 15707 | If our recollection or imagination be not a repetition of animal movements, I ask, in my turn, What is it? |
| 15707 | If there was but one object, as the whole creation may be considered as one object, then I can not ask where it exists? |
| 15707 | In the dropsy of the pericardium does not the patient bear the horizontal or perpendicular attitude with equal ease? |
| 15707 | In the same manner if it be asked--"When does a being exist?" |
| 15707 | Is this curious kind of storge produced by mechanic attraction, or by the sensation of love? |
| 15707 | May not muscular fibres exist in the retina for this purpose, which may be less minute than the locomotive muscles of microscopic animals? |
| 15707 | Might not the foxglove be serviceable in hydrocephalus internus, in hydrocele, and in white swellings of the joints? |
| 15707 | Might not the transfusion of blood be used in these cases with advantage? |
| 15707 | Might not æther mixed with yolk of egg or with honey be given advantageously in bilious concretions? |
| 15707 | Narcisco floreat alnus? |
| 15707 | Nonne canis nidum veneris nasutus odore Quærit, et erranti trahitur sublambere linguâ? |
| 15707 | Nonne vides, ut tota tremor pertentat equorum Corpora, si tantum notas odor attulit auras? |
| 15707 | Now what cause can occasionally produce the male or female character of the embryon, but the peculiar actions of those glands, which form the embryon? |
| 15707 | Shall we conclude from hence, that the variolous matter never enters the blood- vessels? |
| 15707 | Shall we then say that the vegetable living filament was originally different from that of each tribe of animals above described? |
| 15707 | They have organs of sense as of touch and smell, and ideas of external things?_ I. |
| 15707 | This leads us to a curious enquiry, whether vegetables have ideas of external things? |
| 15707 | What induces the bee who lives on honey to lay up vegetable powder for its young? |
| 15707 | What induces the butterfly to lay its eggs on leaves, when itself feeds on honey? |
| 15707 | What induces the other flies to seek a food for their progeny different from what they consume themselves? |
| 15707 | When a body compresses any part of our sense of touch, what happens? |
| 15707 | When puppies and kittens play together, is there not a tacit contract, that they will not hurt each other? |
| 15707 | Where is this extensive canvas hung up? |
| 15707 | Why does the pain of the primary part of the association cease, when that of the secondary part commences? |
| 15707 | _ If common matter be contagious?_ 8. |
| 15707 | _ Whether vegetables, possess ideas? |
| 15707 | and does not a pain or weakness in both arms distinguish the dropsy of the thorax? |
| 15707 | and hence the paucity of urine, and the great thirst, distinguish this kind of dropsy? |
| 15707 | and is it not an immutable law, in animal bodies, that each gland can secrete no other, but its own proper fluid? |
| 15707 | and thence can these diseases be distinguished from each other? |
| 15707 | and those, which cover the upper parts of the body only, the anasarca of the lungs? |
| 15707 | for how can we for a moment suspect that the mucous glands of the intestines could separate pure milk from the blood? |
| 15707 | or is this a scorbutus pulmonalis? |
| 15707 | or to what else in the animal system have they any similitude? |
| 15707 | or where are the numerous receptacles in which those are deposited? |
| 15707 | parce, liber? |
| 15707 | the spirit of animation acts, Where does it act? |
| 15707 | v. Are not the cold sweats in some fainting fits, and in dying people, owing to an inverted motion of the cutaneous lymphatics? |
| 15707 | why is not the skin warm? |
| 2009 | And even if one was so, what chance was there of the perpetuation of such a variation?" |
| 2009 | But how to obtain the beginning of such useful development?" |
| 2009 | But how, it may be asked, can any analogous principle apply in nature? |
| 2009 | But if the same species can be produced at two separate points, why do we not find a single mammal common to Europe and Australia or South America? |
| 2009 | But in the intermediate region, having intermediate conditions of life, why do we not now find closely- linking intermediate varieties? |
| 2009 | But may not the areas of preponderant movement have changed in the lapse of ages? |
| 2009 | But may not this inference be presumptuous? |
| 2009 | But what is meant by this system? |
| 2009 | But what other natural material could bees use? |
| 2009 | But why, it may be asked, are certain forms treated as the mimicked and others as the mimickers? |
| 2009 | Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for climbing trees and seizing insects in the chinks of the bark? |
| 2009 | Can the principle of selection, which we have seen is so potent in the hands of man, apply under nature? |
| 2009 | Do they believe that at each supposed act of creation one individual or many were produced? |
| 2009 | Have we any right to assume that the Creator works by intellectual powers like those of man? |
| 2009 | He may ask where are the remains of those infinitely numerous organisms which must have existed long before the Cambrian system was deposited? |
| 2009 | How will the struggle for existence, briefly discussed in the last chapter, act in regard to variation? |
| 2009 | How, then, comes it that such a vast number of the seedlings are mongrelized? |
| 2009 | How, then, does the lesser difference between varieties become augmented into the greater difference between species? |
| 2009 | Is this the case? |
| 2009 | It may well be asked how it is possible to reconcile this case with the theory of natural selection? |
| 2009 | Now do these complex and singular rules indicate that species have been endowed with sterility simply to prevent their becoming confounded in nature? |
| 2009 | Now, what does this remarkable law of the succession of the same types within the same areas mean? |
| 2009 | One writer asks, why has not the ostrich acquired the power of flight? |
| 2009 | Or, again, why has not any member of the group acquired a long proboscis? |
| 2009 | Thirdly, can instincts be acquired and modified through natural selection? |
| 2009 | Were all the infinitely numerous kinds of animals and plants created as eggs or seed, or as full grown? |
| 2009 | What can be more extraordinary than these well- ascertained facts? |
| 2009 | What can be plainer than that the webbed feet of ducks and geese are formed for swimming? |
| 2009 | What now are we to say to these several facts? |
| 2009 | What reason, it may be asked, is there for supposing in these cases that two individuals ever concur in reproduction? |
| 2009 | What shall we say to the instinct which leads the bee to make cells, and which has practically anticipated the discoveries of profound mathematicians? |
| 2009 | What then checks an indefinite increase in the number of species? |
| 2009 | Who can explain what is the essence of the attraction of gravity? |
| 2009 | Who can explain why one species ranges widely and is very numerous, and why another allied species has a narrow range and is rare? |
| 2009 | Why are not all organic beings blended together in an inextricable chaos? |
| 2009 | Why does it not double or quadruple its numbers? |
| 2009 | Why does not every collection of fossil remains afford plain evidence of the gradation and mutation of the forms of life? |
| 2009 | Why have not apes acquired the intellectual powers of man? |
| 2009 | Why have not the more highly developed forms every where supplanted and exterminated the lower? |
| 2009 | Why is not all nature in confusion, instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined? |
| 2009 | Why should not Nature take a sudden leap from structure to structure? |
| 2009 | Why should the brain be enclosed in a box composed of such numerous and such extraordinarily shaped pieces of bone apparently representing vertebrae? |
| 2009 | Why should the degree of sterility be innately variable in the individuals of the same species? |
| 2009 | Why should the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils, in each flower, though fitted for such distinct purposes, be all constructed on the same pattern? |
| 2009 | Why should there often be so great a difference in the result of a reciprocal cross between the same two species? |
| 2009 | Why should this be so? |
| 2009 | Why should this be so? |
| 2009 | Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? |
| 2009 | Why, it has been asked, if instinct be variable, has it not granted to the bee"the ability to use some other material when wax was deficient?" |
| 2009 | Why, it may be asked, has the supposed creative force produced bats and no other mammals on remote islands? |
| 2009 | Why, it may be asked, until recently did nearly all the most eminent living naturalists and geologists disbelieve in the mutability of species? |
| 2009 | Why, it may even be asked, has the production of hybrids been permitted? |
| 2009 | Why, on the theory of Creation, should there be so much variety and so little real novelty? |
| 2009 | Would the just- hatched young sometimes adhere to the feet of birds roosting on the ground and thus get transported? |
| 2009 | and in the case of mammals, were they created bearing the false marks of nourishment from the mother''s womb? |
| 6919 | 0 solidité de l''esprit Français, que devenez- vous?" |
| 6919 | And is disapprobation a pleasure or a pain? |
| 6919 | And the second is: How has it been perpetuated? |
| 6919 | And, after all, is it quite so certain that a genetic relation may not underlie the classification of minerals? |
| 6919 | Are natural causes competent to play the part of selection in perpetuating varieties? |
| 6919 | Are these truths ultimate and irresolvable facts, or are their complexities and perplexities the mere expressions of a higher law? |
| 6919 | But are there any theological authorities to justify this view of the matter? |
| 6919 | But can we go no further than that? |
| 6919 | But has this been done? |
| 6919 | But how does this come about? |
| 6919 | But in the next place comes a much more difficult inquiry:--Are the causes indicated competent to give rise to the phenomena of organic nature? |
| 6919 | But is it not possible to apply a test whereby a true species may be known from a mere variety? |
| 6919 | But is the analogy a real one? |
| 6919 | But is the like true of the physiological characteristics of animals? |
| 6919 | But suppose we prefer to admit our ignorance rather than adopt a hypothesis at variance with all the teachings of Nature? |
| 6919 | But the question now is:--Does selection take place in nature? |
| 6919 | But then, what do they mean by this last much- abused term? |
| 6919 | But to how much has man really access? |
| 6919 | But what does this attempt to construct a universal history of the globe imply? |
| 6919 | But what if it is? |
| 6919 | But what more have we to guide us in nine- tenths of the most important affairs of daily life than hypotheses, and often very ill- based ones? |
| 6919 | But what proportion is there between the structural alteration and the functional result? |
| 6919 | But where does the grass, or the oat, or any other plant obtain this nourishing food- producing material? |
| 6919 | Can we find any approximation to this in the different races known to be produced by selective breeding from a common stock? |
| 6919 | Did M. Flourens ever visit one of the prettiest watering- places of"la belle France,"the Baie d''Arcachon? |
| 6919 | Do the physiological differences of varieties amount in degree to those observed between forms which naturalists call distinct species? |
| 6919 | Do they cease to be so when the man ceases to be conscious of them? |
| 6919 | Does that make it less virtue? |
| 6919 | Does the Quarterly Reviewer really think that the"sensation"is the"agent"by which the other two phenomena are wrought out? |
| 6919 | Elijah''s great question,"Will you serve God or Baal? |
| 6919 | Finally, what are the mental powers which he reserves as the especial prerogative of man? |
| 6919 | For what are the phænomena of Agamogenesis, stated generally? |
| 6919 | Has it been created? |
| 6919 | Has not his Paley told him that that seemingly useless organ, the spleen, is beautifully adjusted as so much packing between the other organs? |
| 6919 | How do you know that the laws of Nature are not suspended during the night? |
| 6919 | How do you know that the man who really made the marks took the spoons? |
| 6919 | How then is the production of new species to be rendered intelligible by the analogy of Agamogenesis? |
| 6919 | How, then, is mud formed? |
| 6919 | If they are capable of sensation, emotion, and volition, why are they to be denied thought( in the sense of predication)? |
| 6919 | If you find any record of changes taking place at_ b_, did they occur before any events which took place while_ a_ was being deposited? |
| 6919 | In the first place, do these supposed causes of the phenomena exist in nature? |
| 6919 | In the first place, what is a species? |
| 6919 | In what manner can we conceive that the_ vis viva_ of the first ball passes into the second? |
| 6919 | Is it any more than a grandiloquent way of announcing the fact, that we really know nothing about the matter? |
| 6919 | Is it satisfactorily proved, in fact, that species may be originated by selection? |
| 6919 | Is it then still profitable to the male organism to retain it? |
| 6919 | Is there among the plants the same primitive form of organisation, and is that identical with that of the animal kingdom? |
| 6919 | Is there any test of a physiological species? |
| 6919 | Is there anything like the operation of man in exercising selective breeding, taking place in nature? |
| 6919 | Is there no criterion of species? |
| 6919 | Is this sound reasoning? |
| 6919 | Nay, what becomes of an average country squire or parson? |
| 6919 | Now, how many of those are absolutely extinct? |
| 6919 | Now, is approbation a pleasure or a pain? |
| 6919 | Now, the next problem that lies before us-- and it is an extremely important one-- is this: Does this selective breeding occur in nature? |
| 6919 | Now, what is the effect of this oscillation? |
| 6919 | Now, what is the result of all this? |
| 6919 | O solidité de l''esprit Français, que devenez- vous?" |
| 6919 | Or, suppose for a moment we admit the explanation, and then seriously ask ourselves how much the wiser are we; what does the explanation explain? |
| 6919 | Or, to put it to the common sense of mankind, is the gratification of affection a pleasure or a pain? |
| 6919 | Sed quis absconditos ejus recessus aut subterraneas abyssos pervestigavit? |
| 6919 | Shall Biology alone remain out of harmony with her sister sciences? |
| 6919 | So what is the use of what you have done?" |
| 6919 | That is to say, how many of these orders of animals have lived at a former period of the world''s history but have at present no representatives? |
| 6919 | The first is: How has organic or living matter commenced its existence? |
| 6919 | The first question of course is, Do they thus return to the primitive stock? |
| 6919 | What are these"dunes"? |
| 6919 | What are those inductions and deductions, and how have you got at this hypothesis? |
| 6919 | What if species should offer residual phænomena, here and there, not explicable by natural selection? |
| 6919 | What if the orbit of Darwinism should be a little too circular? |
| 6919 | What is Mr. Darwin''s hypothesis? |
| 6919 | What is he doing? |
| 6919 | What is it that constitutes and makes man what he is? |
| 6919 | What is the value of the evidence which leads one to believe that one''s fellow- man feels? |
| 6919 | What is this very speech that we are talking about? |
| 6919 | What meaning has this fact upon any other hypothesis or supposition than one of successive modification? |
| 6919 | What shall a man desire more than this? |
| 6919 | What thoughts, idea, or actions are there that raise him many grades above the elephant or the ape?" |
| 6919 | What was the state of matters in 1859? |
| 6919 | What will be the result, then? |
| 6919 | What will come of a variation when you breed from it, when Atavism comes, if I may say so, to intersect variation? |
| 6919 | What, then, takes place? |
| 6919 | Why are the animals and plants of the Galapagos Archipelago so like those of South America and yet different from them? |
| 6919 | Why are those of the several islets more or less different from one another? |
| 6919 | Why do species present certain relations in space and in time? |
| 6919 | Why does not every collection of fossil remains afford plain evidence of the gradation and mutation of the forms of life? |
| 6919 | Your friend says to you,"But how do you know that?" |
| 6919 | or has it arisen by the power of natural causation? |
| 6919 | or what is really the state of the case? |
| 6919 | quam multa nobis animalia antea ignota offert novus orbis? |
| 6919 | said his opponents;"but what do you know you may be doing when you heat the air over the water in this way? |
| 6919 | that none of the phænomena exhibited by species are inconsistent with the origin of species in this way? |
| 6919 | that there is such a thing as natural selection? |
| 39910 | ''What was the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wildfowl?'' 39910 How long do you suppose that coach has been running round?" |
| 39910 | Is there not a cause? |
| 39910 | ''What thinkest thou of his opinion?'' |
| 39910 | (_ Man._)"Once, in the flight of ages past, There lived a Man,--and who was he? |
| 39910 | (_ Plants._)"Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? |
| 39910 | ***** How is it possible to avoid this conclusion? |
| 39910 | A month before that? |
| 39910 | And how long has he been engaged in this piece of work? |
| 39910 | And this earlier stem,--what of it? |
| 39910 | And would not its presence there bear testimony to the lengthened ovipositor of the well- known brisk and busy fly, and to its remarkable habits? |
| 39910 | And yet what are the coal deposits, and what the oldest sandstone, compared to the entire mass of the strata? |
| 39910 | Are her efforts ineffectual? |
| 39910 | At his fiat it appears; but in what condition? |
| 39910 | At what stage of existence, then, could a bird, by possibility, have been created, which did not present distinct records of prochronic development? |
| 39910 | But how do you know that either of these organisms was created in this mature stage? |
| 39910 | But is it so? |
| 39910 | But is the case otherwise in the animal world? |
| 39910 | But is the life of_ the species_ a circle returning into itself? |
| 39910 | But is there no other alternative? |
| 39910 | But let us look at this strange cloth: what is it? |
| 39910 | But perhaps you may say, What evidence is there that these ever had any predecessors? |
| 39910 | But the red swimming atom;--whence came that? |
| 39910 | But what former conditions? |
| 39910 | But what is creation? |
| 39910 | But when did you ever see the gorgeous- eyed Peacock feeding on a nettle, or the White on a cabbage? |
| 39910 | But where was this flower? |
| 39910 | But, finding it so, the question naturally arises,--Why here, and not elsewhere? |
| 39910 | Can I do this? |
| 39910 | Can we find any clue to his age? |
| 39910 | Can you detect a flaw in this reasoning? |
| 39910 | Did you see him suddenly bow down his head and lay a brick on the top of the last course? |
| 39910 | Do you notice the frequent gulpings of the throat? |
| 39910 | Do you observe these two round fleshy leaves, just peeping from the sandy earth? |
| 39910 | Has not the physiologist irrefragable grounds for it, founded on universal experience? |
| 39910 | Has the combined experience of mankind ever seen a solitary exception to this law? |
| 39910 | Have they succeeded? |
| 39910 | Have we any clue to the age of these corals, or to that of either of them, supposing we did not know that they have been created to- day? |
| 39910 | Have we here any clue to the past history of the plant? |
| 39910 | Have we, then, got rid of the evidence of past time, which we deduced from the successive changes through which the adult had passed? |
| 39910 | Here, then, are no dead leaf- bases; here are no old historical scars:--have we any evidence of past time here? |
| 39910 | How can they be accounted for? |
| 39910 | How far can we ascertain its chronology? |
| 39910 | How many years have these tusks occupied in attaining their present diameter and length? |
| 39910 | In the first pair of developed leaves? |
| 39910 | Is not this a case of surgical instruments enough to make you shudder? |
| 39910 | Is not this an awful array of knives and lancets? |
| 39910 | Is not this an evidence of age? |
| 39910 | Is there not? |
| 39910 | May they not have been entire?" |
| 39910 | May we say six thousand years? |
| 39910 | Now may we not say with confidence, that the sounding- winged insect looks back to the pupa, the pupa to the larva, the larva to the egg- boat? |
| 39910 | Now, where shall we find it? |
| 39910 | Shall we accept the_ antediluvian_, or the_ diluvian_ stratification? |
| 39910 | Shall we multiply it by 100? |
| 39910 | Shall we trace it back a little farther? |
| 39910 | Shall we try to estimate the number of polypes that have been occupied in building this tree? |
| 39910 | So far, then, we can with certainty trace back the history of this being, as an independent organism; but did his history then commence? |
| 39910 | So says the physiologist; but is he not most egregiously in error, since this is the day of these lovely beings''creation? |
| 39910 | The latter we have seen to be a fact: is the former an impossibility? |
| 39910 | The_ chalaza_, we see, is twisted at each pole of the yelk- globe, until it resembles a piece of twine: what is the meaning of this? |
| 39910 | There are certainly no concentric cylinders of timber here: can we trace a previous history of this? |
| 39910 | This single infolding leaf, that is just shooting from the soil, so small and feeble,--what of this? |
| 39910 | Very true: but what if the tramp had locked up his clock- work, and would not let you look at it? |
| 39910 | Was a given drop of water created as a component particle of a running stream? |
| 39910 | Was it called into being in the spring? |
| 39910 | Was it created in the cloud? |
| 39910 | Was it created in the lake? |
| 39910 | Was it formed on the surface? |
| 39910 | Was the navel of the created Man intended to deceive him into the persuasion that he had had a parent? |
| 39910 | Was this the commencement of its existence? |
| 39910 | Were the concentric timber- rings of a created tree formed merely to deceive? |
| 39910 | Were the growth lines of a created shell intended to deceive? |
| 39910 | What can be more irresistible than such evidence as this? |
| 39910 | What can we make of his dentition? |
| 39910 | What else could good men do? |
| 39910 | What has made this tube? |
| 39910 | What have you gained, then, in this case, by going back to the germ? |
| 39910 | What is it? |
| 39910 | What is the explanation of these marks? |
| 39910 | What is the glorious train of the Peacock, all filled with eyes, but a false witness of the same kind? |
| 39910 | What is this ciliated planule, and whence comes it? |
| 39910 | What is this? |
| 39910 | What light can it throw on our inquiry? |
| 39910 | What means this curious depression in the centre of the abdomen, and the corrugated knob which occupies the cavity? |
| 39910 | What period of time was requisite for the aggregation of coral structure to the perpendicular thickness of 2,500 feet? |
| 39910 | What says the physiologist, who is able to read off these autographic records? |
| 39910 | What shall we say to_ this_ singular phenomenon? |
| 39910 | What was it a month ago? |
| 39910 | What would be the amputation of your leg to this row of triangular scalpels, each an inch and a half in diameter? |
| 39910 | When the inorganic crust of the globe was first cleft to contain rivers, whence came the water that flowed through the fissures? |
| 39910 | Whence came it? |
| 39910 | Whence came the egg? |
| 39910 | Where then, in these species, can we possibly select a stage of life, which is not inseparably and even visibly connected with a previous stage? |
| 39910 | Who could hesitate to assert that a history of past time is legibly written in the annulations of these stony tubes? |
| 39910 | Would it not be closely parallel with the presence of fæces in the intestines of an animal at the moment of creation? |
| 39910 | Would it not, as a matter of course, be found in the intestines? |
| 39910 | Yet_ what_ would he have shown? |
| 39910 | Yon Stag that is rubbing his branchy honours against a tree in the glade,--can we apply the same criterion to him? |
| 39910 | master, what manner of great beasts are these?'' |
| 39910 | moved, too, by these powerful muscles? |
| 39910 | that they were not originally the front rank as they are now? |
| 39910 | the six_ ages_ or the six_ days_ of creation? |
| 39910 | you were about to say"the infant,"or"the foetus,"or"the embryo,"probably; pray make your selection: which will you say? |
| 22728 | > If freely allowed, the characters of pure parents will be lost, number of races thus< illegible> but differences besides the< illegible>. 22728 ? 22728 ? 22728 Again we have to ask: how soon did any of these influences produce an effect on Darwin''s mind? 22728 And why should we not admit this theory of descent{514}? 22728 Are not all the most varied species, the oldest domesticated: who< would> think that horses or corn could be produced? 22728 Are not all those plants and animals, of which we have the greatest number of races, the oldest domesticated? 22728 But geologists consider Europe as a passage from sea to island to continent( except Wealden, see Lyell). 22728 But geologists consider Europe as a passage from sea to island to continent( except Wealden, see Lyell). 22728 But is there any evidence that the species, which surround us on all sides, have been thus produced? 22728 Can any distinct line be drawn_ between a race and a species_? 22728 Can it be said that the_ limit of variation_ or the number of varieties capable of being formed under domestication are known? 22728 Can it be shown that organic beings in a natural state are_ all absolutely invariable_? 22728 Degradation and complication? 22728 Dieffenbach) phanerogamic plants? 22728 Digitalis shows jumps in variation, like Laburnum and Orchis case-- in fact hostile cases. 22728 Europe we find equally European. 22728 Everyone will allow if every fossil preserved, gradation infinitely more perfect; for possibility of selection a perfect gradation is required. 22728 Finally, if we narrow the question into, why do we not find in some instances every intermediate form between any two species? 22728 Gradual appearance and disappearance of groups What is the Natural System? 22728 Hence more forms< on?> the island. 22728 Hence in past ages mere[ gaps] pages preserved{114}. 22728 Hence we should expect every now and then a wild form to vary{49}; possibly this may be cause of some species varying more than others. 22728 I believe this from numbers, who have lived,--mere chance of fewness. 22728 If so, is it so improbable that the deerhound and long- legged shepherd dog have so descended? 22728 In how few places in any one region like Europe will these contingencies be going on? 22728 In how few places in any one region like Europe will these contingencies be going on? 22728 Introduce here contrast with Lamarck,--absurdity of habit, or chance?? 22728 Introduce here contrast with Lamarck,--absurdity of habit, or chance?? 22728 Is there then any direct evidence in favour< of> or against this view? 22728 It is not clear in the original to how much of the passage the two? 22728 Justly argued against Lamarck? |
| 22728 | Lastly, words inserted by the editor, of which the appropriateness is doubtful, are printed thus< variation?>. |
| 22728 | N.B.--There ought somewhere to be a discussion from Lyell to show that external conditions do vary, or a note to Lyell''s works< work?>. |
| 22728 | Now what evidence of this is there? |
| 22728 | Other cases just< the> reverse, mountains of eastern S. America, Altai, S. India{ 124}: mountain summits of islands often eminently peculiar. |
| 22728 | Other cases just< the> reverse, mountains of eastern S. America, Altai, S. India{ 124}: mountain summits of islands often eminently peculiar. |
| 22728 | Probably double plants and all fruits owe their developed parts primarily to sterility and extra food thus applied{74}. |
| 22728 | Probably double plants and all fruits owe their developed parts primarily to sterility and extra food thus applied{74}. |
| 22728 | Recapitulation Why do we wish to reject the Theory of Common Descent? |
| 22728 | Recent as the yet discovered fossil mammifers of S. America are, who will pretend to say that very many intermediate forms may not have existed? |
| 22728 | So we see in grey- hound, bull- dog, in race- horse and cart- horse, which have been selected for their form in full- life, there is much less(?) |
| 22728 | Some nearest species will not cross( crocus, some heath), some genera cross readily( fowls{68} and grouse, peacock& c.). |
| 22728 | Such words are followed by an inserted mark of interrogation. |
| 22728 | The |
| 22728 | These animals therefore, I consider then mere introduction from continents long since submerged. |
| 22728 | These generally very slow, doubtful though< illegible> how far the slowness would produce tendency to vary. |
| 22728 | These generally very slow, doubtful though< illegible> how far the slowness would produce tendency to vary. |
| 22728 | This point which all theories about climate adapting woodpecker{50} to crawl up trees,< illegible> miseltoe,< sentence incomplete>. |
| 22728 | What then would be the natural and almost inevitable effects of the gradual change into the present more temperate climate{366}? |
| 22728 | When therefore did the current of his thoughts begin to set in the direction of Evolution? |
| 22728 | Who can answer the same question with respect to instincts? |
| 22728 | Who will say what could thus be effected in the course of ten thousand generations? |
| 22728 | Why again is the same species much more abundant in one district of a country than in another district? |
| 22728 | Why on the ordinary theory should the Galapagos Islands abound with terrestrial reptiles? |
| 22728 | Why on the theory of absolute creations should this large and diversified island only have from 400 to 500(? |
| 22728 | Why were the plants in Eastern and Western Australia, though wholly different as species, formed on the same peculiar Australian types? |
| 22728 | Will analogy throw any light on the fact of the supposed races of nature being sterile, though none of the domestic ones are? |
| 22728 | [ In continent, if we look to terrestrial animal, long continued change might go on, which would only cause change in numerical number |
| 22728 | and why should many equal- sized islands in the Pacific be without a single one{386} or with only one or two species? |
| 22728 | e. the above mentioned parents> descendant; the parent more variable than foetus, which explains all.] |
| 22728 | or have they descended, like our domestic races, from the same parent- stock? |
| 22728 | p. 244, note 10.> What is it in domestication which causes variation?" |
| 22728 | whether they should both be called genera or families; or whether one should be a genus, and the other a family{439}? |
| 22728 | { 123} Note in the original,"Would it be more striking if we took animals, take Rhinoceros, and study their habitats?" |
| 22728 | { 175} Between the lines occurs:--"one form be lost." |
| 22728 | { 236}< Note in original.> Seals? |
| 22728 | { 301}< Note in original.> Is this the Galeopithecus? |
| 22728 | { 320}< Note in original.> Neither highest or lowest fish(_ i.e._ Myxina or Lepidosiren) could be preserved in intelligible condition in fossils. |
| 1909 | If, as I must think, external conditions produce little DIRECT effect, what the devil determines each particular variation? |
| 1909 | In what,he asks,"does the advantage of a larger cerebral mass consist?" |
| 1909 | 10.2 days alpha( beta, gamma) Actinium Emanation? |
| 1909 | 143 days alpha... Lead 207? |
| 1909 | 2.15 minutes alpha, beta, gamma... Radium 225 about 2600 years alpha Radium Emanation? |
| 1909 | 21 minutes no rays Radium- C? |
| 1909 | 22 days beta, gamma... Actinium? |
| 1909 | 28 minutes alpha, beta, gamma Radium- D? |
| 1909 | 3 minutes alpha Radium- B? |
| 1909 | 3.8 days alpha Radium- A? |
| 1909 | 3.9 seconds alpha Actinium- A? |
| 1909 | 35.7 minutes no rays Actinium- B? |
| 1909 | 6 days beta( gamma) Radium- F? |
| 1909 | ? |
| 1909 | Again and again, several roads are open to it, of which it chooses one-- why? |
| 1909 | And after all what would animals that live in sand and mud do with tube- feet? |
| 1909 | And finally, how is it that the same Hawk- moth caterpillars, which to- day show oblique stripes, possessed longitudinal stripes in Tertiary times? |
| 1909 | And what do the successors of the mighty hero and genius think now in regard to the origin of the human race? |
| 1909 | Are ordinary materials slightly radio- active? |
| 1909 | Atomic Weight Time of half Radio- Activity decay Uranium 238.5 alpha Uranium- X? |
| 1909 | Bates, April 4, 1861:"If I had to cut up myself in a review I would have( worried?) |
| 1909 | But can you account for the males not having been rendered equally brilliant and equally protected? |
| 1909 | But granted that such hybridisations were possible, would they have influenced the character of the fauna? |
| 1909 | But how was it possible that such processes should occur in free nature? |
| 1909 | But in all seriousness, why should indefinite and unlimited variation have been regarded as a more probable account of the origin of Adaptation? |
| 1909 | But is it only desert and polar animals whose colouring is determined through adaptation? |
| 1909 | But on what does this phenomenon, so big with consequences, itself depend? |
| 1909 | But what are genetic characters? |
| 1909 | But what part of it DOES NOT depend upon adaptation? |
| 1909 | But, again, why? |
| 1909 | But, it is asked, what of the direct effect of external conditions, temperature, nutrition, climate and the like? |
| 1909 | By what lines of reasoning and research was he brought to regard"natural selection"as a vera causa in the process of evolution? |
| 1909 | Can they decide which is to perish and which to survive? |
| 1909 | Can we conjecture how events would have moved if the son of Philip of Macedon had been an incompetent? |
| 1909 | Did he develop it himself or was it a miraculous gift with which he was endowed at his creation? |
| 1909 | Did they believe in the immortality of the soul? |
| 1909 | Do we not detect such a view in Comte''s sociology, and perhaps even in Herbert Spencer''s? |
| 1909 | Even if the record of Adam''s action were to be taken literally there would still remain the question, whence had he this power? |
| 1909 | Further than this, I would ask whether the same train of ideas does not also apply to the evolution of animals? |
| 1909 | Has it increased or diminished in duration and complexity since organisms first appeared on the earth? |
| 1909 | Has this method, which is spoken of as Geitonogamy, the same influence as crossing with pollen from another plant? |
| 1909 | Have the results of his experimental investigations modified the point of view from which Darwin entered on his researches, or not? |
| 1909 | Have we not here one of the conceptions which mark off sociology proper from the old philosophy of history? |
| 1909 | How are new words added to a language in the present day? |
| 1909 | How could insects which live upon or among green leaves become all green, while those that live on bark become brown? |
| 1909 | How could the Ithomiine dress have developed in their case, and of what use is it, since the species would in any case be immune? |
| 1909 | How could the green locust lay brown eggs, or the privet caterpillar develop white and lilac- coloured lines on its green skin? |
| 1909 | How did these come to be so named? |
| 1909 | How did this world grow up? |
| 1909 | How far south did it ever extend and what is the latest date of a direct practicable communication, say from North Western Europe to Greenland? |
| 1909 | How has our conception of social phenomena, and of their history, been affected by Darwin''s conception of Nature and the laws of its transformations? |
| 1909 | How have the desert animals become yellow and the Arctic animals white? |
| 1909 | How have they been received and followed up by the scientific and lay world? |
| 1909 | How may this property be stated? |
| 1909 | How was it that Darwin succeeded where others had failed? |
| 1909 | How, when, and under what conditions was Darwin led to a conviction that species were not immutable, but were derived from pre- existing forms? |
| 1909 | If Variation may be in any way definite, the question once more arises, may it not be definite in direction? |
| 1909 | If only that has persistence which can be adapted to a given condition, what will then be the fate of our ideals, of our standards of good and evil? |
| 1909 | If we give to"continually"a cosmic measure, can the fact be doubted? |
| 1909 | In other words living matter must always have presented a life- cycle, and the question arises what kind of modification has that cycle undergone? |
| 1909 | Intelligent missionaries of bygone days used to ply savages with questions such as these: Had they any belief in God? |
| 1909 | Is it possible that the significant deviations which we know as"individual variations"can form the beginning of a process of selection? |
| 1909 | Is not, then, the problem of knowledge solved by the evolution hypothesis? |
| 1909 | Is religion then entirely a delusion? |
| 1909 | Is the"natural"leak of a brass electroscope due to an intrinsic radio- activity of brass, or to traces of a radio- active impurity on its surface? |
| 1909 | Is there not a word"bad"in English and a word"bad"in Persian which mean the same thing? |
| 1909 | Is this the last word of human thought? |
| 1909 | It is more important to ask, Why do these two worlds join? |
| 1909 | It is not enough to hope( or fear?) |
| 1909 | It is quite true that a similar substance covered the scales of the Reptiles, but why should it not have arisen among them through selection? |
| 1909 | It solves the great problem: how could the finely adapted structure of the animal or plant body be formed unless it was built on a preconceived plan? |
| 1909 | May not our present ideas of the universality and precision of Adaptation be greatly exaggerated? |
| 1909 | Of what use to the diamond is its high specific gravity and high refrangibility, and to gold of its yellow colour and great weight? |
| 1909 | Old men will reproach young men saying"Why do you not go to work?" |
| 1909 | Or have we chanced upon an eddy in a backwater, opposed to the main stream of advance? |
| 1909 | Or in what other way could it have arisen, since scales are also passively useful parts? |
| 1909 | So Wangi climbed up the tree to ask Wailan Wangko,"How now? |
| 1909 | That question was,''What is a species?'' |
| 1909 | The question is brought home to us when we ask what is a bud- sport, such as a nectarine appearing on a peach- tree? |
| 1909 | The question is sometimes asked, Do the new lights on Variation and Heredity make the process of Evolution easier to understand? |
| 1909 | The question is, then, if it has forms in which there is room for the new matter? |
| 1909 | The real question is, Do they ever produce sterile offspring? |
| 1909 | They are based on instinctive foundations ingrained in the nervous constitution through natural( or may we not say sexual?) |
| 1909 | They belong to four different genera and three sub- families, and we have to inquire: Whence came this resemblance and what end does it serve? |
| 1909 | This at once raises the much discussed question, how far garden- cultivation has led to the creation of new races? |
| 1909 | This is unmistakably apparent from a letter to Fritz Muller dated February 22( 1869? |
| 1909 | This life- power IS something; does it live in his heart or his lungs or his midriff? |
| 1909 | To Darwin the question, What is a variation? |
| 1909 | To quote a single example; I may put the question, what internal changes produce a transition from vegetative growth to sexual reproduction? |
| 1909 | To this we must agree; but, it may be asked, do the general means of plant dispersal violate so obvious a principle? |
| 1909 | To use a phrase of Romanes, can they have SELECTION- VALUE? |
| 1909 | To what extent have the results of this vast activity fulfilled the expectations of the workers who have achieved them? |
| 1909 | Turning to the other end of the radium series we are led to ask what becomes of radium- F when in turn it disintegrates? |
| 1909 | Vaguely thinking over the enormous and constant destruction which this implied, it occurred to me to ask the question, Why do some die and some live? |
| 1909 | Was it his breath? |
| 1909 | What are the forms which surround them? |
| 1909 | What are these variations in structure which succeed one another in the life- history of an organism? |
| 1909 | What has been the fate of Darwin''s doctrines since his great achievement? |
| 1909 | What have the philosophers done for language since? |
| 1909 | What is a genetic or mutational variation? |
| 1909 | What is that connotation? |
| 1909 | What is the final non- active product of the series of changes we have traced from uranium through actinium and radium? |
| 1909 | What is the reason of it? |
| 1909 | What is the theological import of such a statement when it is regarded as essential to belief in God? |
| 1909 | What justification is there for this view? |
| 1909 | What proportion of thickness was sufficient to decide that of two variants of a limpet one should survive, the other be eliminated? |
| 1909 | What then are Lamarck''s"acquired characters"? |
| 1909 | What then is the problem we are dealing with? |
| 1909 | Whence comes the idea that all measures inspired by the sentiment of solidarity are contrary to Nature''s trend? |
| 1909 | Who is here the breeder, making the selection, choosing out one individual to bring forth offspring and rejecting others? |
| 1909 | Why then is it so often entirely restricted to the female? |
| 1909 | Why then should we feel content with the first hypothesis and not with the second? |
| 1909 | Why was the migration of northern creatures southwards of far- reaching and most significant importance? |
| 1909 | Why were the necessary variations always present? |
| 1909 | Why, then, was it, that Darwin succeeded where the rest had failed? |
| 1909 | Would those whom such conclusions repelled be content to oppose to nature''s imperatives only the protests of the heart? |
| 1909 | about 40 years no rays Radium- E? |
| 1909 | and connected therewith was the other question,''How did a species begin?''... |
| 1909 | no rays Actinium- X? |
| 1909 | or he is bleeding; is it his blood? |
| 1909 | or the minute receptaculum seminis, or even the wings? |
| 1909 | or"That brother belonging to me you have killed; why did you do it?" |
| 27600 | And what buttons? |
| 27600 | 1. of this genus? |
| 27600 | 2. which may be termed a fever with slow pulse? |
| 27600 | 3. and its slowness in paresis irritativa be caused by the debility being accompanied with due quantity of blood? |
| 27600 | 6? |
| 27600 | 7. of this Supplement? |
| 27600 | 9.? |
| 27600 | A blister on the part? |
| 27600 | Acid of vitriol? |
| 27600 | And hence he is led to enquire, whether the influence of fear might not be substituted in such cases to that of hope with advantage to the patient? |
| 27600 | And lastly, does it not happen more frequently than is suspected from external injury? |
| 27600 | And what are the ideas of colours, when they are excited by imagination or memory, but the repetition of finer ocular spectra? |
| 27600 | And what the ideas of tangible objects, but the repetition of finer evanescent titillations? |
| 27600 | Animal mucus, hartshorn jelly, veal broth, chicken water, oil? |
| 27600 | Arsenic? |
| 27600 | As calcareous earth abounds every where, is the want of phosphoric acid the remote cause? |
| 27600 | As the cold air soon destroys them, after they are voided, could clysters of iced water be used with advantage? |
| 27600 | Balsams? |
| 27600 | Bartholomew?" |
| 27600 | Bath of oil? |
| 27600 | Blister on the part? |
| 27600 | But what follows? |
| 27600 | Can it be felt by the hand or by the patient before the disease is too great to admit of cure by the paracentesis? |
| 27600 | Can the beginning vinous or acetous fermentation of the aliment in weak stomachs contribute to this effect? |
| 27600 | Can the fluctuation in the chest be heard by applying the ear to the side, as Hippocrates asserts? |
| 27600 | Cold Bath? |
| 27600 | Conium maculatum? |
| 27600 | Cool dress, diluting liquids? |
| 27600 | Corroded by carbonic acid? |
| 27600 | Could a warm bath made of decoction of bark, or a cold fomentation with it, be of service? |
| 27600 | Could oxygene gas mixed with common air stimulate the languid system? |
| 27600 | Could such a discharge be produced by strong errhines, and excite an absorption of the congestion of lymph in the dropsy of the brain? |
| 27600 | Could the breathing of carbonic acid gas mixed with atmospheric air be of service? |
| 27600 | Could the scarlet fever have been mistaken for the measles? |
| 27600 | Could the swelled axillary gland be exsected? |
| 27600 | Could they then have had a volcanic origin, or must they not rather have been blown from putrid marshes full of animal matter? |
| 27600 | Could this also be of advantage in strangulated hernia? |
| 27600 | Delphinium stavisagria? |
| 27600 | Did the great fear promote the absorption of the matter, like the sickness occasioned by digitalis? |
| 27600 | Digitalis? |
| 27600 | Digitalis? |
| 27600 | Digitalis? |
| 27600 | Digitalis? |
| 27600 | Do any ineffectual retrograde motions occasion the cold fits of agues? |
| 27600 | Do balsams increase or lessen the heat of urine? |
| 27600 | Do neutral salts increase the tendency to cough? |
| 27600 | Do not neutral salts increase the tendency to cough by their stimulus, as they increase the heat of urine in gonorrhoea? |
| 27600 | Do they crawl from one child to another in the same bed? |
| 27600 | Do they escape from the body and become flies, like the bott- worm in horses? |
| 27600 | Does it chemically destroy the stomach, and life in consequence? |
| 27600 | Does not the softer pulse in some kinds of enteritis depend on the sympathy of the heart and arteries with the sickness of the stomach? |
| 27600 | Does the enamel grow again when it has been perforated or abraded? |
| 27600 | Does the matter from suppurating bones, which generally has a very putrid smell, produce hectic fever, or typhus? |
| 27600 | Does the revivescence of these affected parts, or their torpor, recurring at intervals, form the paroxysms of these fevers? |
| 27600 | Does this disease belong to aphtha? |
| 27600 | Does this dropsy of the chest often come on after peripneumony? |
| 27600 | Does this symptom of vomiting indicate, whether the disease be above or below the valve of the colon? |
| 27600 | Fennel fæniculum, pareira brava, Cissampelos? |
| 27600 | I remember a child, who on tasting the gristle of sturgeon, asked what gristle was? |
| 27600 | I suppose the same must happen on compressing the hydrocephalus externus? |
| 27600 | If air with less oxygen? |
| 27600 | If chalybeates after evacuation? |
| 27600 | If coffee or charcoal internally? |
| 27600 | If powder of manganese? |
| 27600 | If saturated solution of arsenic three or five drops twice or thrice a day for a week? |
| 27600 | If small doses of opium? |
| 27600 | In hysteric inversions of motion is some other part too much stimulated? |
| 27600 | In other kinds of diabetes may not the remote cause be the too strong action of the cutaneous absorbents, or of the pulmonary ones? |
| 27600 | Is a decoction of seneka- root of use? |
| 27600 | Is camphor of use to relieve the ardor urinæ? |
| 27600 | Is it because the mobility of the heart is less than that of the stomach, and the mobility of the capillaries greater? |
| 27600 | Is it ever cured by making the patient sick by tincture of digitalis? |
| 27600 | Is not the cardia ventriculi the seat of this disease? |
| 27600 | Is not the liver always diseased previous to the hæmoptoe, as in several other hæmorrhages? |
| 27600 | Is the seat or cause of the ileus always below the valve of the colon, and that of the cholera above it? |
| 27600 | It may be asked, does the heat during the incubation of eggs act as a stimulus exciting the living principle into activity? |
| 27600 | May not in such cases oil externally or internally be of service? |
| 27600 | May not oil be carried up this duct, when a gall- stone gives great pain, by its retrograde spasmodic action? |
| 27600 | May not this disease be referred to aphtha, or to dysentery? |
| 27600 | Mezereon? |
| 27600 | Might not flesh in small quantities bruised to a pulp be more advantageously used in fevers attended with debility than vegetable diet? |
| 27600 | Might the head be bathed for a minute with cold water? |
| 27600 | Nicotiana tabacum; tobacco? |
| 27600 | Opium? |
| 27600 | Or can not these, Not these portents thy awful will suffice? |
| 27600 | Or the exhibition of crude quicksilver two ounces every half hour, till a pound is taken, be particularly serviceable in this circumstance? |
| 27600 | Or to stimulate it into action? |
| 27600 | Oxygene air? |
| 27600 | Sarsaparilla? |
| 27600 | Secretion of mucus of the bladder is increased by cantharides, by spirit of turpentine? |
| 27600 | Should black spots in teeth be cut out? |
| 27600 | Should the patient respire air with less oxygen? |
| 27600 | Small electric shocks through the tonsils every hour? |
| 27600 | Soda phosphorata? |
| 27600 | Solution of arsenic? |
| 27600 | Spirit of wine alone? |
| 27600 | Strychnos nux vomica? |
| 27600 | Ten grains of bone- ashes, or calcined hartshorn, twice a day, with decoction of madder? |
| 27600 | The covetous man thought he gave good advice to the spendthrift, when he said,"Live like me,"who well answered him,----------"Like you, Sir John? |
| 27600 | Transfusion of blood into a vein three or four ounces a day? |
| 27600 | Was it a paralysis of the terminations of the veins, which absorb the blood from the tumid penis? |
| 27600 | Was it stopped at last by the fainting fit? |
| 27600 | Was this a stomachic, or an hepatic disease? |
| 27600 | Was this owing to a greater exertion of volition than usual? |
| 27600 | What is the life of man? |
| 27600 | What the idea of sounds, but the repetition of finer auricular murmurs? |
| 27600 | When one eye is affected, does the disease exist in the ventricule of that side? |
| 27600 | Where there exists a torpor of the brain, might not very slight electric shocks passed frequently through it in all directions be used with advantage? |
| 27600 | Will ether in clysters destroy ascarides? |
| 27600 | Will fermenting vegetable juices, as sweet- wort, or sugar and water in the act of fermentation with yest, dissolve any kind of animal concretions? |
| 27600 | Will the gastric juice of animals dissolve calculi? |
| 27600 | With ipecacuanha, with smoke of tobacco? |
| 27600 | Would a solution of gold in aqua regia be worth trying? |
| 27600 | and their permanent revivescence establish the cure? |
| 27600 | and thus produce increased pulmonary absorption by reverse sympathy, as it produces pale urine, and even stools, by direct sympathy? |
| 27600 | cream? |
| 27600 | ether frequently applied externally to the swelled tonsils? |
| 27600 | fat? |
| 27600 | or be made sick by whirling round in a chair suspended by a rope? |
| 27600 | or by the stimulus of the tobacco? |
| 27600 | or does it destroy the action of the stomach by its great stimulus, and life in consequence of the sympathy between the stomach and the heart? |
| 27600 | or from the stimulus of indurated semen in the seminal vessels? |
| 27600 | or may not the former circumstance sometimes depend on a concomitant affection of the brain approaching to sleep? |
| 27600 | or of ether and water? |
| 27600 | or of spirit of wine and water? |
| 27600 | or of spring water further cooled by salt dissolved in water contained in an exterior vessel? |
| 27600 | or pained from the want of stimulus? |
| 27600 | or putting pieces of calculus down the throat of a living crow, or pike, and observing if they become digested? |
| 27600 | or to the unusual facility of the passage of the blood through the pulmonary and aortal capillaries? |
| 27600 | or vinegar? |
| 27600 | or warm bathing for an hour at a time? |
| 27600 | or with ether? |
| 27600 | which might at least give room and stimulus to the affected part of the brain? |
| 5273 | Do we consider the deficiency of this sixth sense in man as the slightest evidence against design? 5273 What Is Darwinism? |
| 5273 | Why do n''t he say,cries the theologian,"that the complicated organs of plants and animals are the product of the divine intelligence? |
| 5273 | [ III-14] What does the difference between Mr. Darwin and his reviewer now amount to? 5273 A good deal may be made of this, but does it sustain the indictment? 5273 And if individuals alone exist, how can the differences which may be observed among them prove the variability of species? |
| 5273 | And who that is convinced of this can long undoubtingly hold the original distinctness of turnips from cabbages as an article of faith? |
| 5273 | And why not suppose that the finder of the watch, or of the watch- wheel, infers both design and human workmanship? |
| 5273 | And would an explanation of the mode in which those woodpeckers came to be green, however complete, convince him that the color was undesigned? |
| 5273 | Are they veritable Melchizedeks, without pedigree or early relationship, and possibly fated to be without descent? |
| 5273 | As the intellectual connection here is realized through the material connection, why may it not be so in the case of species and genera? |
| 5273 | As to the latter, is the common apprehension and sense of mankind in this regard well grounded? |
| 5273 | Because natural, that is,"stated, fixed, or settled,"is it any the less designed on that account? |
| 5273 | But does the one really exclude the other? |
| 5273 | But how would it be if you saw the men doing the same thing over and over? |
| 5273 | But how? |
| 5273 | But is it a teleology, or rather-- to use the new- fangled term-- a dysteleology? |
| 5273 | But now, as the genus and the species have no material existence, how can they vary? |
| 5273 | But what is the position of the reviewer upon his own interpretation of these passages? |
| 5273 | But what of the vast majority that perish? |
| 5273 | But where is there the slightest evidence of a common progenitor? |
| 5273 | But why not say the same of the aurochs, contemporary both of the old man and of the new? |
| 5273 | But would any of them be preserved and carried to an equal degree of deviation? |
| 5273 | But you will ask me,''Do you, then, reject the doctrine of evolution? |
| 5273 | But, this being proved is it now very improbable that both were derived from the almond, or from some common amygdaline progenitor? |
| 5273 | Can it be that there was no design, no designer, directing the powers of life in the formation of this wonderful organ? |
| 5273 | Can the derivative hypothesis be maintained and carried out into a system on similar grounds? |
| 5273 | Can we rightly reason from our own intelligence and powers to a higher or a supreme intelligence ordering and shaping the system of Nature? |
| 5273 | Could she accomplish similar results when left to herself? |
| 5273 | Do order and useful- working collocation, pervading a system throughout all its parts, prove design? |
| 5273 | Do you accept the creation of species directly and without secondary agencies and processes?'' |
| 5273 | Does the investigation of physical causes stand opposed to the theological view and the study of the harmonies between mind and Nature? |
| 5273 | First, Do they die out as a matter of fact? |
| 5273 | For it is still to ask: whence this rich endowment of matter? |
| 5273 | Have these changes modified in the slightest degree the supposed evidence of design?" |
| 5273 | Have they had a career, and can that career be ascertained or surmised, so that we may at least guess whence they came, and how, and when? |
| 5273 | Have we not similar grounds for inferring design in the supposed varieties of species, that we have in the case of the supposed species of a genus? |
| 5273 | He set before himself a single problem-- namely, How are the fauna and flora of our earth to be accounted for? |
| 5273 | How came they to be applied to natural selection by a divine who professes that God ordained whatsoever cometh to pass? |
| 5273 | How could he know whether the blow was intentional or not? |
| 5273 | How if you at length discovered a profitable end of the operation, say the winning of a wager? |
| 5273 | How many of the land animals and plants which are enumerated in the Massachusetts official reports would it be likely to contain? |
| 5273 | How moving them? |
| 5273 | How, then, can we suppose Chance to be the author of a system in which everything is as regular as clockwork? |
| 5273 | II Do Species wear out? |
| 5273 | If any of us were born unlike our parents and grandparents, in a slight degree, or in whatever degree, would the case be altered in this regard? |
| 5273 | If only individual chairs exist, how can the differences which may be observed among them prove the variability of the species? |
| 5273 | If species do not exist at all, as the supporters of the transmutation theory maintain, how can they vary? |
| 5273 | If that does not refer the efficiency of physical causes to the First Cause, what form of words could do so? |
| 5273 | Is it compatible with our seemingly inbore conception of Nature as an ordered system? |
| 5273 | Is there anything in Nature which in the long- run may answer to artificial selection? |
| 5273 | It is asked, If the first was so created for its obvious and actual use, and the second for such use as it has, what was the design of the third? |
| 5273 | More than this, is it not most presumable that an intellectual conception realized in Nature would be realized through natural agencies? |
| 5273 | Now, if the eye as it is, or has become, so convincingly argued design why not each particular step or part of this result? |
| 5273 | Now, is not all this a question of degree, of mere gradation of difference? |
| 5273 | Now, the question is, Does this involve the destruction or only the reconstruction of our consecrated ideas of teleology? |
| 5273 | Now, where is the design in all this? |
| 5273 | Or are they now coming upon the stage-- or rather were they coming but for man''s interference-- to play a part in the future? |
| 5273 | Or are they remnants, sole and scanty survivors of a race that has played a grander part in the past, but is now verging to extinction? |
| 5273 | Or, pourquoi la reproduction est- elle possible, habituelle, feconde indefiniment, entre des etres organises que nous dirons de la meme espece? |
| 5273 | Rather does not the proof extend to the intermediate species, and go to show that all four were equally designed? |
| 5273 | Shall we quarrel with Science if she should show how these words are true? |
| 5273 | Should we be less apt to infer creative wisdom if we had only four senses instead of five, or three instead of four? |
| 5273 | So in the counterpart case of natural selection: must we not infer intention from the arrangements and the results? |
| 5273 | So it has been asked, If a man can make a telescope, why can not God make a telescope which produces others like itself? |
| 5273 | So the question comes to this: What will an hypothesis of the derivation of species explain which the opposing view leaves unexplained? |
| 5273 | Such being the results of the want of adequate knowledge, how is it likely to be when our knowledge is largely increased? |
| 5273 | The practical question will only be, How much difference between two sets of individuals entitles them to rank under distinct species? |
| 5273 | The questions,"What will he do with it?" |
| 5273 | This raises the question, Why does Darwin press his theory to these extreme conclusions? |
| 5273 | To the triumphant outcry,"How can an organ, such as an eye, be formed under Nature?" |
| 5273 | To which we reply by asking, Which does the question refer to, the category of thought, or the individual embodiment? |
| 5273 | VIII WHAT IS DARWINISM? |
| 5273 | Viewed philosophically, the question only is, Which is the better supported hypothesis of the two? |
| 5273 | Was this the result of a mere Epicurean or Lucretian"fortuitous concourse"of living"atoms"? |
| 5273 | Well, if this be so, why denounce the modern man of science so severely upon the other page merely for accepting the permission? |
| 5273 | Were the old alchemists atheists as well as dreamers in their attempts to transmute earth into gold? |
| 5273 | What are these probabilities? |
| 5273 | What better evidence for such hypothesis could we have than the variations and grades which connect these species with each other? |
| 5273 | What is now to be thought of the ordinary glandular hairs which render the surface of many and the most various plants extremely viscid? |
| 5273 | What is the bearing of these remarkable adaptations and operations upon doctrines of evolution? |
| 5273 | What more than this could be said for such an hypothesis? |
| 5273 | What work will this hypothesis do to establish a claim to be adopted in its completeness? |
| 5273 | What would come of it? |
| 5273 | What, then, are organs not adapted to use marks of? |
| 5273 | When plants are seen to move and to devour, what faculties are left that are distinctively animal? |
| 5273 | Whence comes that of which all we see and know is the outcome? |
| 5273 | Who shall decide between such extreme views so ably maintained on either hand, and say how much of truth there may be in each? |
| 5273 | Why do all hypotheses of derivation converge so inevitably to one ultimate point? |
| 5273 | Why is this, but that the link of generation has been sundered? |
| 5273 | Why may not the new species, or some of them, be designed diversifications of the old? |
| 5273 | Why not? |
| 5273 | Why should these plants take to organic food more than others? |
| 5273 | Why should time be lost by this preliminary and incomplete closing? |
| 5273 | Why these two stages? |
| 5273 | Why this continual striving after"the unattained and dim?" |
| 5273 | Why, but because, by their complete extinction in South America, the line of descent was there utterly broken? |
| 5273 | Would they doubt, or deny my intention, on that account? |
| 5273 | XII DURATION AND ORIGINATION OF RACE AND SPECIES-- IMPORT OF SEXUAL REPRODUCTION I Do Varieties wear out, or tend to wear out? |
| 5273 | [ VIII-1] The Nation, May 28, 1874) The question which Dr. Hodge asks he promptly and decisively answers:"What is Darwinism? |
| 5273 | and if not, why not? |
| 5273 | and if they varied it by other arrangements of the balls or of the blow, and these were followed by analogous results? |
| 5273 | and"How far will he carry it?" |
| 5273 | or, does it tend to atheism or pantheism? |
| 5273 | use of sexual reproduction? |
| 5273 | we would respond with a parallel question, How can a complex and elaborate organ, such as a nettle- sting, be formed under Nature? |
| 23427 | ''Habit,''says the proverb,''is a second nature''; what possible meaning can this proverb have, if descent with modification is unfounded? 23427 Are we then to recognize no opinions as well founded but those which are generally received? |
| 23427 | Beats not the bell again?--Heavens, do I wake? 23427 But what are we to say of instinct? |
| 23427 | Did this cold hand, unasking Want relieve, Or wake the lyre to every rapturous sound? 23427 From those cold lips did softest accents flow? |
| 23427 | How many animals are there not which lack sense and limbs? 23427 I ask by what means are the anthers in many flowers and stigmas in other flowers directed to find their paramours? |
| 23427 | Shall we then say that the vegetable living filament was originally different from that of each tribe of animals above described? 23427 To speak seriously,"( au réel) he says( and why this, if he had always spoken seriously? |
| 23427 | What author,he asks,"has ever pronounced more decidedly than Buffon in favour of the invariability of species? |
| 23427 | Where can our many domestic breeds of dogs be found in a wild state? 23427 Which,"asks Mr. Spencer,"is the most rational theory about these ten millions of species? |
| 23427 | [ 200] Who can tell what ideas a worm does or does not form? 23427 [ 229]"What, then,"continues Lamarck,"can be the cause of all this? |
| 23427 | [ 320] How, let me ask again, isthe case of neuter insects""demonstrative"against the"well- known"theory put forward in the foregoing chapter? |
| 23427 | [ 42] Can we suppose that Buffon really saw no more connection than this? 23427 [ 81] Does it not look as if Dr. Darwin had in his mind the very passage of Buffon which I have been last quoting? |
| 23427 | [ 96] What, then, asks Buffon,_ is_ the use of the brain? 23427 _ Is there only one living principle? |
| 23427 | ''Nay, Madam,''was the answer,''what are fifteen years on the right side?'' |
| 23427 | ..."How then can we detect the characters of the original race? |
| 23427 | : a slit in one tendon to let another tendon pass through it? |
| 23427 | And does not your favourite dog expect you should give him his daily food for his services and attention to you? |
| 23427 | And that the productive living filament of each of those tribes was different from the other? |
| 23427 | And those in which, after having admitted variability and declared in favour of it, he proceeds to limit it? |
| 23427 | And thus barters his love for your protection? |
| 23427 | And what is that situation? |
| 23427 | And where, again, is your designer of beasts and birds, of fishes, and of plants?" |
| 23427 | Are they the diverging ramifications of the living principle under modification of circumstance? |
| 23427 | As all our ideas are originally received by our senses, the question may be changed to whether vegetables possess any organs of sense? |
| 23427 | Assuredly, nothing can exist but by the will of this Supreme Author, but can we venture to assign rules to him in the execution of his will? |
| 23427 | But assuredly if this theory[ the theory of descent with modification or that of"natural selection"?] |
| 23427 | But how about plants? |
| 23427 | But if he does not mean this, what becomes of natural selection? |
| 23427 | But may not this inference be presumptuous? |
| 23427 | But who objects to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity? |
| 23427 | Can this be effected by any specific attraction? |
| 23427 | Can we suppose that all the tricks, cunning, artifices, precautions, patience, and skill of animals are due to evolution only? |
| 23427 | Can you show him more than I can? |
| 23427 | Come, doctor, whither must we go; what must we investigate to- morrow, and the next day, and the next? |
| 23427 | Concede what you please to these arbitrary and unattested superstitions, how will they help you? |
| 23427 | Darwin?" |
| 23427 | Does not such a consequence, I ask,_ prove repugnant alike to religion and common sense_? |
| 23427 | Does not this involve the power of comparing dates, and the idea of a coming future, an''_ inquiétude raisonnée_''? |
| 23427 | For how can a part which can not feel-- a soft inactive substance like the brain-- be the very organ of perception and movement? |
| 23427 | For, what real knowledge can be drawn from an isolated pursuit? |
| 23427 | Have they been narrated by men of intelligence and philosophers, or are they popular fables only?" |
| 23427 | Have we any right to declare that the Creator works by intellectual powers like those of man? |
| 23427 | Hence, when Mr. Darwin continues,"Who ever objected to chemists speaking of the elective affinities of the various elements? |
| 23427 | How do either of them know that the other exists in their vicinity? |
| 23427 | How many millions of germs has he not committed to the earth, before she has rewarded him by producing them? |
| 23427 | How much natural history is likely to be found in such a lumber room? |
| 23427 | How recognize the effects produced by climate, food,& c.? |
| 23427 | How will our philosopher get at vision or make an eye? |
| 23427 | How, again, distinguish these from those other effects which come from the intermixture of races, either when wild or in a state of domestication? |
| 23427 | I dare not, lest--''''Emma, will you? |
| 23427 | If the conditions of life have not varied, why should the species subjected to those conditions have done so? |
| 23427 | If this part is not the source of our powers of motion, why is it so necessary and so essential? |
| 23427 | In"Life and Habit,"I said:"To the end of time, if the question be asked,''Who taught people to believe in Evolution?'' |
| 23427 | Is Pantheism to absorb Rome, and, if so, what sort of a religious formula is to be the result? |
| 23427 | Is he a man of letters making fun of science? |
| 23427 | Is he a teleological theologian making fun of evolution? |
| 23427 | Is he an evolutionist making fun of teleology? |
| 23427 | Is he to be taken at his word? |
| 23427 | Is it most likely that there have been ten millions of special creations? |
| 23427 | Is it possible that Lamarck was in some measure misled by believing Buffon to be in earnest when he advanced propositions little less monstrous? |
| 23427 | Is it so very much to hope that ere many years are over the approximation will become closer still? |
| 23427 | Is not this to praise with faint damnation? |
| 23427 | Is the mere power of feeling sensations sufficient to make them garner up food during the summer, on which food they may subsist in winter? |
| 23427 | Is this curious kind of storge produced by mechanic attraction, or by the sensation of love? |
| 23427 | Is this merely through want of training? |
| 23427 | It may be asked, Why have a Church at all? |
| 23427 | Must we not see here the design of an all- powerful Creator? |
| 23427 | Of what date are those in which Buffon declares for variability? |
| 23427 | On this account it may be well to ask the question, what, after all,_ is_''Natural Selection''? |
| 23427 | On this dull cheek the rose of beauty blow, And those dim eyes diffuse celestial day? |
| 23427 | Or is he a master of pure irony making fun of all three, and of his audience as well? |
| 23427 | Or of the subtilty of owls, which husband their store of mice by biting off their feet, so that they can not run away? |
| 23427 | Or, suppose the eye formed, would the perception follow? |
| 23427 | Round that pale mouth did sweetest dimples play? |
| 23427 | Should it not be enough that they do not injure each other nor stand in the way of each other''s fair development? |
| 23427 | The fact has long been familiar; how has it been reconciled with infinite wisdom? |
| 23427 | The horse, for example-- what can at first sight seem more unlike mankind? |
| 23427 | Then why use it when another, and, by Mr. Darwin''s own admission, a"more accurate"one is to hand in"the survival of the fittest"? |
| 23427 | This discourse is entirely devoted to the consideration of the question,"What is Species?" |
| 23427 | This leads us to a curious inquiry, whether vegetables have ideas of external things? |
| 23427 | What can be more widely contrasted than a newly- born child, and the small, semi- transparent gelatinous spherule constituting the human ovum? |
| 23427 | What difference can we not see in this respect between civilized and uncivilized races, between the peasant girl, and the woman of the world? |
| 23427 | What does the fact imply? |
| 23427 | What induces the bee, who lives on honey, to lay up vegetable powder for its young? |
| 23427 | What induces the butterfly to lay its eggs on leaves when itself feeds on honey?... |
| 23427 | What inference could be more aptly drawn? |
| 23427 | What was it that repelled him in Buffon''s system? |
| 23427 | When it arrives, what is to happen? |
| 23427 | When puppies and kittens play together is there not a tacit contract that they will not hurt each other? |
| 23427 | Where are our bulldogs, greyhounds, spaniels, and lapdogs, breeds presenting differences which, in wild animals, would be certainly called specific? |
| 23427 | Where are our cauliflowers, our lettuces, to be found wild, with the same characters as they possess in our kitchen gardens? |
| 23427 | Where are the passages in which Buffon affirms the immutability of species? |
| 23427 | Where can we find a more decided expression of opinion than the following? |
| 23427 | Where can wheat be found as a wild plant, unless it have escaped from some neighbouring cultivation? |
| 23427 | Where is he? |
| 23427 | Where is this your designer? |
| 23427 | Where, then, is your designer of man? |
| 23427 | Which, I would ask, is the pessimist? |
| 23427 | Who can doubt but that there will be a split even in the Church of England ere so many years are over? |
| 23427 | Who led these vessels by a road so defended and secured? |
| 23427 | Who made him? |
| 23427 | Why do ants store food? |
| 23427 | Why do we find in the hole of the field- mouse enough acorns to keep him until the following summer? |
| 23427 | Why do we find such an abundant store of honey and wax within the bee- hive? |
| 23427 | Why heave my sighs, why gush my tears anew? |
| 23427 | Why is it considered so necessary that every part in an individual should be useful to the other parts and to the whole animal? |
| 23427 | Why is it not as admissible in the second case as in the first? |
| 23427 | Why not have said nothing about it? |
| 23427 | Why not unite in community of negation rather than of assertion? |
| 23427 | Why remind us here that the species which come nearest to the lion are so hard to distinguish? |
| 23427 | Why should birds make nests if they do not know that they will have need of them? |
| 23427 | Why should she not sometimes add superabundant parts, seeing she so often omits essential ones?" |
| 23427 | Why, again, does it seem so proportionate in each animal to the amount of perceiving power which that animal possesses? |
| 23427 | Yet, why should not this answer serve for the watch as well as for the stone? |
| 23427 | [ 223]"What, then,"he asks,[224]"_ is_ species-- and can we show that species has changed-- however slowly?" |
| 23427 | [ 317]"But is the upright position altogether natural, even to man? |
| 23427 | [ 91]),"can we doubt that those animals whose organization resembles our own, feel the same sensations as we do? |
| 23427 | and how is one to lay one''s hand upon the little that there may actually be? |
| 23427 | or have they resulted from the combined agency of both? |
| 23427 | or is Rome so to modify her dogmas that the Pantheist can join her without doing too much violence to his convictions? |
| 23427 | or may it not be through wrong comparison on our own parts? |
| 23427 | would have produced in course of generations a cat, or a cat a lion? |
| 16729 | What is the wind? |
| 16729 | What is this water, and where does it run? |
| 16729 | What makes the waves in the sea? |
| 16729 | Where does this animal live, and what is the use of that plant? |
| 16729 | A hard- headed friend of mine, who was present, put the not unnatural question,"Then why do n''t you say so in your pulpits?" |
| 16729 | Again, what simpler, or more absolutely practical, than the attempt to keep the axle of a wheel from heating when the wheel turns round very fast? |
| 16729 | And by way of a beginning, let us ask ourselves-- What is education? |
| 16729 | And how has it fared with"Physick"and Anatomy? |
| 16729 | And if he honestly believes that, of what avail is it to quote the commandment against stealing, when he proposes to make the capitalist disgorge? |
| 16729 | And in that case what is the value of M. Comte''s praise of him? |
| 16729 | And is he consistent with fact? |
| 16729 | And now, what is the ultimate fate, and what the origin, of the matter of life? |
| 16729 | And the result? |
| 16729 | And this leads me to ask, Why should scientific teaching be limited to week- days? |
| 16729 | And this question subdivides itself into two:--the first, are we really contravening such conclusions? |
| 16729 | And what has made this difference? |
| 16729 | And what is the dire necessity and"iron"law under which men groan? |
| 16729 | And whether, of these English books, more than one in ten is the work of a fellow of a college, or a professor of an English university? |
| 16729 | And would not Terence stop his ears and run out if he could be present at an English performance of his own plays? |
| 16729 | And, after all, is it quite so certain that a genetic relation may not underlie the classification of minerals? |
| 16729 | And, as involved in, and underlying all these questions, how ought they to be educated? |
| 16729 | And,_ à fortiori_, between all four? |
| 16729 | Are all the grandest and most interesting problems which offer themselves to the geological student essentially insoluble? |
| 16729 | Are modern geologists prepared to say that all life was killed off the earth 50,000, 100,000, or 200,000 years ago? |
| 16729 | But I imagine I hear the question, How is all this to be tested? |
| 16729 | But how does this classification differ from that of the scientific Zoologist? |
| 16729 | But how is this remarkable propulsive machine made to perform its functions? |
| 16729 | But if this apparently vital operation were explicable as a simple mechanism, might not other vital operations be reducible to the same category? |
| 16729 | But is an education which ignores them all, a liberal education? |
| 16729 | But is the analogy a real one? |
| 16729 | But is the earth nothing but a cooling mass,"like a hot- water jar such as is used in carriages,"or"a globe of sandstone?" |
| 16729 | But suppose we prefer to admit our ignorance rather than adopt a hypothesis at variance with all the teachings of Nature? |
| 16729 | But the plague? |
| 16729 | But what has Comtism to do with the"New Philosophy,"as the Archbishop defines it in the following passage? |
| 16729 | But what has grown out of this search for natural knowledge of so merely useful a character? |
| 16729 | But what is all we really know and can know about the latter phænomenon? |
| 16729 | But what then? |
| 16729 | But whither does all this tend? |
| 16729 | But why does a muscle contract at one time and not at another? |
| 16729 | Can it, therefore, be said that chemical analysis teaches nothing about the chemical composition of calc- spar? |
| 16729 | Did M. Flourens ever visit one of the prettiest watering- places of"la belle France,"the Baie d''Arcachon? |
| 16729 | Do they afford us the smallest ground for refusing to educate women as well as men-- to give women the same civil and political rights as men? |
| 16729 | Do you think that the Christianity of the seventeenth century looks nobler and more attractive for such treatment of such a man?" |
| 16729 | Does Nature acknowledge, in any deeper way, this unity of plan we seem to trace? |
| 16729 | Does biology, whether"abstract"or"concrete,"occupy itself with any other form of life than those which exist, or have existed? |
| 16729 | Does he speculate upon the possible movements of bodies which may attract one another in the inverse proportion of the cube of their distances, say? |
| 16729 | Does the astronomer occupy himself with any other system of the universe than that which is visible to him? |
| 16729 | FOOTNOTE:[ 1] Need it be said that this is Tennyson''s English for Homer''s Greek? |
| 16729 | Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind''s throwing? |
| 16729 | Finally, it occurs to me that, such being my feeling about the matter, it may be useful to all of us if I ask you,"What is yours? |
| 16729 | For what are the phænomena of Agamogenesis, stated generally? |
| 16729 | For what does the middle- class school put in the place of all these things which are left out? |
| 16729 | For, after all, what do we know of this terrible"matter,"except as a name for the unknown and hypothetical cause of states of our own consciousness? |
| 16729 | Goethe has condensed a survey of all the powers of mankind into the well- known epigram:--"Warum treibt sich das Volk so und schreit? |
| 16729 | Has any one tried to found such an education? |
| 16729 | How and when are we justified in making our next step-- a_ deduction_ from it? |
| 16729 | How are the Cretaceous Ichthyosauria, Plesiosauria, or Pterosauria less embryonic, or more differentiated, species than those of the Lias? |
| 16729 | How can a lover of literary excellence fail to rejoice in the ancient masterpieces? |
| 16729 | How did Harvey determine the nature of the circulation, except by experiment? |
| 16729 | How did Sir Charles Bell determine the functions of the roots of the spinal nerves, save by experiment? |
| 16729 | How do we know the use of a nerve at all, except by experiment? |
| 16729 | How does the meaning of the scientific class- name of"Mammalia"differ from the unscientific of"Beasts"? |
| 16729 | How does the sensation of redness arise? |
| 16729 | How is that all too brief period spent at present? |
| 16729 | How is the existence of this long succession of different species of crocodiles to be accounted for? |
| 16729 | How long would he be left uneducated? |
| 16729 | How many among these instructed persons understand how the voice is produced and modified? |
| 16729 | How many of us know that the voice is produced in the larynx, and modified by the mouth? |
| 16729 | How then has this notion of the inexactness of Biological science come about? |
| 16729 | How then is the production of new species to be rendered intelligible by the analogy of Agamogenesis? |
| 16729 | I reply, why should the thing which has been called education do either the one or the other? |
| 16729 | If I study a living being, under what heads does the knowledge I obtain fall? |
| 16729 | If primary and secondary education are in this unsatisfactory state, what is to be said to the universities? |
| 16729 | Is M. Comte consistent with himself in making these assertions? |
| 16729 | Is any such unity predicable of their forms? |
| 16729 | Is he in the position of a scientific Tantalus-- doomed always to thirst for a knowledge which he can not obtain? |
| 16729 | Is it any more than a grandiloquent way of announcing the fact, that we really know nothing about the matter? |
| 16729 | Is it both; or is it neither? |
| 16729 | Is it built up of ordinary matter, and again resolved into ordinary matter when its work is done? |
| 16729 | Is it satisfactorily proved, in fact, that species may be originated by selection? |
| 16729 | Is it then the_ results_ of Biological science which are"inexact"? |
| 16729 | Is palæontology able to succeed where physical geology fails? |
| 16729 | Is such a universal history, then, to be regarded as unattainable? |
| 16729 | Is there any test of a physiological species? |
| 16729 | Is this a plant; or is it an animal? |
| 16729 | Is this from any lack of power in the English as compared with the German mind? |
| 16729 | It is not probable that teachers, in pursuing such studies, will be led astray from the acquirement of more important but less attractive knowledge? |
| 16729 | It is the question, why should training masters be encouraged to acquire a knowledge of this, or any other branch of physical science? |
| 16729 | Let us take these points separately; and, first, what great ideas has natural knowledge introduced into men''s minds? |
| 16729 | May it not help us if it be pleased, or( as seems to be by far the more general impression) hurt us if it be angered? |
| 16729 | No doubt it is a pretty and ingenious way of looking at the structure of any animal, but is it anything more? |
| 16729 | Now does this mean that it may have been two, or three, or four hundred million years? |
| 16729 | Now what does this mean? |
| 16729 | O solidité de l''esprit Français, que devenez- vous?" |
| 16729 | O solidité de l''esprit Français, que devenez- vous?" |
| 16729 | On what amount of similarity of their faunæ is the doctrine of the contemporaneity of the European and of the North American Silurians based? |
| 16729 | One is constantly asked, When should this scientific education be commenced? |
| 16729 | Or may I not rather ask, is it possible for you to discharge your functions properly without these aids? |
| 16729 | Or may it not be also considered as an organized body? |
| 16729 | Or to turn to the higher Vertebrata-- in what sense are the Liassic Chelonia inferior to those which now exist? |
| 16729 | Or, is the matter of life composed of ordinary matter, differing from it only in the manner in which its atoms are aggregated? |
| 16729 | Or, suppose for a moment we admit the explanation, and then seriously ask ourselves how much the wiser are we; what does the explanation explain? |
| 16729 | Quashie''s plaintive inquiry,"Am I not a man and a brother?" |
| 16729 | Said I not rightly that we are a wonderful people? |
| 16729 | Shall Biology alone remain out of harmony with her sister sciences? |
| 16729 | Surely this quality must be in the thing, and not in our minds? |
| 16729 | Surely, the principles involved in them are now admitted among the fixed beliefs of all thinking men? |
| 16729 | Surely, there is nothing in these explanations which is not fully borne out by the facts? |
| 16729 | The child asks,"What is the moon, and why does it shine?" |
| 16729 | The first inquiry which arises plainly is, has it ever been denied that this period_ may_ be enough for the purposes of geology? |
| 16729 | The great new question would be,"How does all this take place?" |
| 16729 | The next question to which I have to address myself is, What sciences ought to be thus taught? |
| 16729 | This is obvious from the mention of Catholicism,"demonstrates that Mr. Congreve has no acquaintance with the"Philosophie Positive"? |
| 16729 | Under these circumstances it may well be asked, how is one mass of non- nucleated protoplasm to be distinguished from another? |
| 16729 | What are these"dunes?" |
| 16729 | What better philosophical status has"vitality"than"aquosity"? |
| 16729 | What books shall I read? |
| 16729 | What even, if such a being exists, is beyond the reach of his powers of delusion? |
| 16729 | What have we to do in every- day life? |
| 16729 | What if species should offer residual phænomena, here and there, not explicable by natural selection? |
| 16729 | What if the orbit of Darwinism should be a little too circular? |
| 16729 | What is it originates, directs, and controls the motive power? |
| 16729 | What is it that happens? |
| 16729 | What is the cause of this wonderful difference between the dead particle and the living particle of matter appearing in other respects identical? |
| 16729 | What is the purpose of primary intellectual education? |
| 16729 | What is the use, it is said, of attempting to make physical science a branch of primary education? |
| 16729 | What is this wide- spread component of the surface of the earth? |
| 16729 | What more harmless than the attempt to lift and distribute water by pumping it; what more absolutely and grossly utilitarian? |
| 16729 | What ought they to be allowed, or not allowed, to do, be, and suffer? |
| 16729 | What science can present greater attractions than philology? |
| 16729 | What social and political rights have women? |
| 16729 | What think you would Cicero, or Horace, say to the production of the best sixth form going? |
| 16729 | What, then, is certain? |
| 16729 | What, truly, can seem to be more obviously different from one another in faculty, in form, and in substance, than the various kinds of living beings? |
| 16729 | When I examine it, what appears to be the most striking character it presents? |
| 16729 | Where is such an education as this to be had? |
| 16729 | Where is there any approximation to it? |
| 16729 | Who knows but that the"& c."may include Hume? |
| 16729 | Why does one whole group of muscles contract when the lobster wishes to extend his tail, and another group, when he desires to bend it? |
| 16729 | Why should he not? |
| 16729 | Why should we be worse off under one_ régime_ than under the other? |
| 16729 | Why trouble ourselves about matters of which, however important they may be, we do know nothing, and can know nothing? |
| 16729 | Will it not be well to do towards it those things which would have soothed the man and put him in good humour during his life? |
| 16729 | Will it not retain somewhat of the powers it possessed during life? |
| 16729 | Will you give a man with this much information a vote? |
| 16729 | Would such a catastrophe destroy the parallel? |
| 16729 | Yet, if one has anything to say, what is easier than to say it? |
| 16729 | _ Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence_? |
| 16729 | and has its cooling been uniform? |
| 16729 | and what is the evidence on which those fundamental propositions demand our assent? |
| 16729 | and whence did it come? |
| 16729 | that difference to which we give the name of Life? |
| 16729 | that none of the phænomena exhibited by species are inconsistent with the origin of species in this way? |
| 16729 | that there is such a thing as natural selection? |
| 16729 | the second, if we are, are those conclusions so firmly based that we may not contravene them? |
| 16729 | what are the fundamental assumptions upon which they all logically depend? |
| 16729 | why call one"plant"and the other"animal"? |
| 2740 | How can water injure the leaves, if indeed this is at all the case? |
| 2740 | (?) |
| 2740 | ), and do they throw up on the surface of the ground numerous castings or vermicular masses such as we so commonly see in Europe? |
| 2740 | ), by you be looked at as reversion to the columbine state? |
| 2740 | ), to note whether the females flocked in equal numbers to the"drumming"of the rarer form as to the common form? |
| 2740 | ): if he is right, do you not think that the unknown force may make more intelligible the extension of the great northern ice- cap? |
| 2740 | ... When you next write to your son, will you please remember me kindly to him and give him my best thanks for his note? |
| 2740 | 6, Queen Anne Street, W., December 19th[ 1870?]. |
| 2740 | About the difference in the power of flight in Dorkings, etc., may it not be due merely to greater weight of body in the adults? |
| 2740 | Also the length and breadth of the shell, and how much of leg( which leg?) |
| 2740 | America( North), are European birds blown to? |
| 2740 | And did the wound suppurate, or heal by the first intention? |
| 2740 | And might you not add that over the whole world it would probably be admitted that a larger area is NOW at rest than in movement? |
| 2740 | Are such castings found in the forests beneath the dead withered leaves? |
| 2740 | Are the purple flowers borne on moderately long racemes? |
| 2740 | Are there any other glands or other organs which you can think of? |
| 2740 | Are there any traces of other muscles? |
| 2740 | Are there everywhere many unpaired birds? |
| 2740 | Are there many unmarried birds? |
| 2740 | Are there not lots of good young chemists and astronomers or physicists? |
| 2740 | Are you familiar with appearance of ice- action? |
| 2740 | Are you sure there is no mistake? |
| 2740 | As you so kindly helped me before on dimorphism, will you forgive me begging for a little further information, if in your power to give it? |
| 2740 | Because at 12,000 feet he finds the same kind of clay with that of the Pampas he never doubts that it is contemporaneous with the Pampas[ debacle?] |
| 2740 | But can you account for the males not having been rendered equally brilliant and equally protected? |
| 2740 | But do n''t you think that viscid lava might be very slow in communicating its pressure equally in all directions? |
| 2740 | But how was the Glen Roy lake drained when the water stood at level of the middle"road"? |
| 2740 | But what in the world is to be done?" |
| 2740 | But who can tell what effect this mile or two of new sedimentary strata would have from mere gravity on the level of the supporting surface? |
| 2740 | But why do you not publish these facts in a separate little paper? |
| 2740 | But why, oh, why should so many monocotyledons have come there? |
| 2740 | By any chance have you at Kew any odd varieties of the common potato? |
| 2740 | By the way, can you lend me the January number of the"London Journal of Botany"for an article on insect- agency in fertilisation? |
| 2740 | By the way, have you any other Goodeniaceae which you could lend me, besides Leschenaultia and Scaevola, of which I have seen enough? |
| 2740 | By the way, how do you and Buckland account for the"tails"of diluvium in Scotland? |
| 2740 | Can he refer to terminal moraines alone when he says fragments in moraines are rounded? |
| 2740 | Can it be my dear friend? |
| 2740 | Can the name Heterocentron have any reference to such diversity? |
| 2740 | Can this indicate four confluent pistils? |
| 2740 | Can you forgive me for troubling you at such unreasonable length? |
| 2740 | Can you give any explanation of this statement? |
| 2740 | Can you give, or obtain from your father, any information on this head, and allow me to quote your authority? |
| 2740 | Can you help me? |
| 2740 | Can you now send me a plant? |
| 2740 | Can you or any of your colleagues think of any such plant? |
| 2740 | Can you remember how we ever first met? |
| 2740 | Can you spare me a good plant( or even two) of Oxalis sensitiva? |
| 2740 | Can you tell me what this relation is? |
| 2740 | Can you tell me whether any Fringillidae or Sylviadae erect their feathers when frightened or enraged? |
| 2740 | Can you tell me? |
| 2740 | Can you throw any light on this? |
| 2740 | Could there have been a lively midshipman on board, who in the morning stocked the pool from the adjoining coast? |
| 2740 | Could you ask any one to observe this for me in an eye- dispensary or hospital? |
| 2740 | Could you have a seedling dug up and potted? |
| 2740 | Could you look out for an additional instance? |
| 2740 | Could you make it scream without hurting it much? |
| 2740 | Could you not ascertain whether the barbs are sensitive, and how soon they become spiral in the bud? |
| 2740 | Could you not get an accurate sketch of the direction of the hair of the tip of an ear? |
| 2740 | Could you not invent some quite new term for gland, implying viscidity? |
| 2740 | Could you oblige me by taking the great trouble to send me in an old tin canister any of these orchids, permitting me, of course, to repay postage? |
| 2740 | Did the shell remain attached to the beetle''s leg from the 18th to the 23rd, and was the beetle kept during this time in the air? |
| 2740 | Did you ever hear of the existence of any sub- breed of the canary in which the male differs in plumage from the female? |
| 2740 | Do the leaflets sleep on the following night in the usual manner? |
| 2740 | Do the same leaflets on successive nights move in the same strange manner? |
| 2740 | Do these fragments coincide in level with Glen Gluoy shelf? |
| 2740 | Do these secrete? |
| 2740 | Do they run down walls of ovarium, and then turn up the placenta, and so debouch near the"orifices"of the ovules? |
| 2740 | Do very vigorous and well- nourished hens receive the male earlier in the spring than weaker or poorer hens? |
| 2740 | Do you chance to know of any botanical collector in Mexico or Peru? |
| 2740 | Do you grow Adlumia cirrhosa? |
| 2740 | Do you intend to follow out your views? |
| 2740 | Do you know Asa Gray''s child book on the functions of plants, or some such title? |
| 2740 | Do you know Coryanthes, with its wonderful basket of water? |
| 2740 | Do you know any gallinaceous bird in which the female has well developed spurs? |
| 2740 | Do you know any good conchologist in Northampton who could name it? |
| 2740 | Do you know anything of his knowledge? |
| 2740 | Do you know how the muscles are in this part in the anthropoid apes? |
| 2740 | Do you know of any birds besides pigeons, and, as it is said, the raven, which pair for their whole lives? |
| 2740 | Do you know of any birds besides some of the gallinaceae which are polygamous? |
| 2740 | Do you know well Bronn in his last Entwickelung( or some such word) on this subject? |
| 2740 | Do you not think it a very curious subject? |
| 2740 | Do you remember how savage you were long years ago at my broaching such a conjecture? |
| 2740 | Do you remember telling me you could see no nectar in your Rhexia? |
| 2740 | Do you remember the scarlet Leschenaultia formosa with the sticky margin outside the indusium? |
| 2740 | Do you sigh over the"Insular Floras,"the Introduction to New Zealand Flora, to Australia, your Arctic Flora, and dear Galapagos, etc., etc., etc.? |
| 2740 | Do you take in"Nature,"or shall I send you a copy? |
| 2740 | Does Lyell know Loven, or his address and title? |
| 2740 | Does any sensitive species of Mimosa grow in your neighbourhood? |
| 2740 | Does it bend through irritability when rubbed?" |
| 2740 | Does it not look as if flowers were normally bilateral; just in the same way as we now know that the radiating star- fish, etc., are bilateral? |
| 2740 | Does it not strike you as very difficult to understand how insects remove the pollinia and carry them to the stigmas? |
| 2740 | Does not the N. American view of warmer or more equable period, after great Glacial period, become much more probable in Europe? |
| 2740 | Does the orbicularis press against, and so directly stimulate, the lachrymal gland? |
| 2740 | Does this indicate that the soluble salts have been washed out? |
| 2740 | Does this not look like a vivification of a fossil seed? |
| 2740 | Does this not strike you as a good case of false relation? |
| 2740 | Does this orchid produce many capsules? |
| 2740 | Down, 20th[ 1862?]. |
| 2740 | Down, 25th[ 1863?] |
| 2740 | Down, 4th[ about 1862- 3?] |
| 2740 | Down, August 23rd[ 1846?]. |
| 2740 | Down, December 12th[ 1860?]. |
| 2740 | Down, December 23rd[ 1870?]. |
| 2740 | Down, December 3rd,[ 1862?]. |
| 2740 | Down, February 16th[ 1862?]. |
| 2740 | Down, February 16th[ 1867?] |
| 2740 | Down, February 3rd[ 1862?] |
| 2740 | Down, January 1st[ 1878?]. |
| 2740 | Down, January 5th,[ 1871?] |
| 2740 | Down, July 19th[ 1881?] |
| 2740 | Down, June 15th[ 1869?]. |
| 2740 | Down, June 22nd[ 1862?]. |
| 2740 | Down, June 3rd[ 1870?]. |
| 2740 | Down, May 5th[ 1868?]. |
| 2740 | Down, October 25th[ 1861?] |
| 2740 | Down, October, 13th[ 1876?]. |
| 2740 | Down, Saturday[ 1874?]. |
| 2740 | Down, Thursday, February 21st[ 1868- 70?]. |
| 2740 | Down, Wednesday night[ 1849?]. |
| 2740 | Down[ 1846?]. |
| 2740 | First, the Glen[ shelf? |
| 2740 | For where could the rich lowland equatorial flora have existed during a period of general refrigeration sufficient for this? |
| 2740 | Garden of Edinburgh( do you know anything of him?) |
| 2740 | Gray? |
| 2740 | Have any of the forms of Primula, which are non- dimorphic, been propagated for some little time by seed in garden? |
| 2740 | Have you Clematis cirrhosa? |
| 2740 | Have you Kerguelen Land amongst your volcanic islands? |
| 2740 | Have you a copy of my Orchis book? |
| 2740 | Have you been a large collector of caterpillars? |
| 2740 | Have you ever attended to glacier action? |
| 2740 | Have you ever seen any form from the same countries which could be the females? |
| 2740 | Have you ever thought of keeping a young monkey, so as to observe its mind? |
| 2740 | Have you had any experience of birds hatched under a foster- mother making their nests in the proper manner? |
| 2740 | Have you had any opportunity of tracing a bed of marble? |
| 2740 | Have you looked at any this year?")... |
| 2740 | Have you looked at the pollen- masses of the bee- Ophrys? |
| 2740 | Have you read Mr. Gurney''s articles in the"Fortnightly"and"Cornhill?" |
| 2740 | Have you read Wallace''s recent articles? |
| 2740 | Have you seeds of Oxalis sensitiva, which I see mentioned in books? |
| 2740 | Have you thought at all over Rogers''Law, as he reiterates it, of cleavage being parallel to his axes- planes of elevation? |
| 2740 | Have you thought of him? |
| 2740 | He says he regrets that he did not test the ovules with chemical agents: does he mean tincture of iodine? |
| 2740 | Here is another point: have you any Toucans? |
| 2740 | How about the Quagga case? |
| 2740 | How about the drake and Gallus bankiva? |
| 2740 | How can the sexes be so equally matched? |
| 2740 | How do you like that? |
| 2740 | How is it with the eyebrows? |
| 2740 | How is this about several males; is it not so? |
| 2740 | How is this in the cases mentioned by you? |
| 2740 | How is this with the native plants during a windy day? |
| 2740 | How is this with the rhinoceros? |
| 2740 | I am sure I have read somewhere of the cones of Lepidodendron being found round the stump of a tree, or am I confusing something else? |
| 2740 | I daresay that you are right in that nectar was originally secreted within the staminal tube; but why has not the one stamen long since cohered? |
| 2740 | I gather there are a good many muscles in various parts of the body which are in this same state: could you specify any of the best cases? |
| 2740 | I have been much interested by what you say on the rostellum exciting pollen to protrude tubes; but are you sure that the rostellum does excite them? |
| 2740 | I have lately observed that you have one great authority( C. Prevost),[ not] that authority signifies a[ farthing?] |
| 2740 | I presume that these seeds can not be covered with any attractive pulp? |
| 2740 | I see few periodicals: when have you published on Clivia? |
| 2740 | I see in your list Clianthus, Carmichaelia( four species), a new genus, a shrub, and Edwardsia( is latter Papilionaceous?). |
| 2740 | I should like to hear your case of the Primula: is it certainly propagated by seed? |
| 2740 | I should think voyage out and home ought to be paid for? |
| 2740 | I think I have often seen several males following one female; and what decides which male shall succeed? |
| 2740 | I wonder much whether it stands out in the line of any oceanic current, which does not so forcibly strike the main island? |
| 2740 | I wonder whether the ovules could be thus fertilised? |
| 2740 | If so, can the wrinkling of the lower eyelids, which has often perplexed me, act in pushing back the eyeball? |
| 2740 | If so, may we venture to call it so, or shall I put an(?) |
| 2740 | If the Lochaber lakes had been formed by an ice- period posterior to the( marine?) |
| 2740 | If there be not two forms of Rhexia, will you compare the position of the part in young and old flowers? |
| 2740 | If you are well and have leisure, will you kindly give me one bit of information: Does Ophrys arachnites occur in the Isle of Wight? |
| 2740 | If you chance to meet Ramsay will you ask him whether he has it? |
| 2740 | If you have reflected on this point, what do you think of it? |
| 2740 | If you know beforehand, will you tell me when your paper is read, for the chance of my being able to attend? |
| 2740 | If you see him pray say I am truly grateful; I dare not write to a live Bishop or a Lady, but if I knew the address of"Rucker"? |
| 2740 | If you sow any, had you not better sow a good many? |
| 2740 | If you want to know further particulars of my experiments on Monochaetum(?) |
| 2740 | In an old note of yours( which I have just found) you say that you have a sensitive Schrankia: could this be lent me? |
| 2740 | In any case, how in the name of Heaven can it make a hollow in solid rock, which surely must be a work of many years? |
| 2740 | In such cases what outline do you give to the upper surface of the lava in the dike connecting them? |
| 2740 | In the summer, could I persuade you to pay us a visit of a day or two, and I would try and get Bates and some others to come down? |
| 2740 | Is Sphaenium corneum a synonym of Cyclas? |
| 2740 | Is expense of living high at Darjeeling? |
| 2740 | Is he as good a workman as he appears? |
| 2740 | Is it a common yellow cowslip? |
| 2740 | Is it not a very remarkable fact? |
| 2740 | Is it not curious that there should be such diversified sensitiveness in allied plants? |
| 2740 | Is it not monstrous for a professed conchologist? |
| 2740 | Is it your brother Harrison W., whom I know? |
| 2740 | Is not this making Geology nice and simple for beginners? |
| 2740 | Is not this most extraordinary, and a puzzler? |
| 2740 | Is the male Macacus silenus furnished with longer hair than the female about the neck and face? |
| 2740 | Is the scar on your son''s leg on the same side and on exactly the same spot where you were wounded? |
| 2740 | Is there any place in London where parcels are received for you, or shall I send it by post? |
| 2740 | Is this not so? |
| 2740 | Is this not very curious, and opposed to the morphological idea that a flower is a condensed continuous spire of leaves? |
| 2740 | It was in Park Street; but what brought us together? |
| 2740 | Journal[ Magazine?.]" |
| 2740 | July 2nd[ 1863?] |
| 2740 | Lastly, have you any seaside plants with bloom? |
| 2740 | Lastly, in the"prize- canaries,"which have black wing- and tail- feathers during their first(?) |
| 2740 | March 21st[ 1871?]. |
| 2740 | May I say it is healthy? |
| 2740 | May not a volcano be likened to a protruding and cracked portion on a vast natural high- pressure boiler, formed by the surrounding area of country? |
| 2740 | May there be some sexual relation between A. Loddigesii and luteola; they seem very close? |
| 2740 | Muller wrote:"Are the three which grow near each other seedlings from the same mother- plant or perhaps from seeds of the same capsule? |
| 2740 | Now is not this structure a good argument that I interpret the homologies of the sides of clinandrum rightly? |
| 2740 | Now the question is, what think you of the offer? |
| 2740 | Now, can you tell me whether each spine has likewise an oblique unstriped or striped muscle, as figured by Lister? |
| 2740 | Now, could you open the stomachs of these ants and examine the contents, so as to prove or disprove this remarkable hypothesis? |
| 2740 | Now, if in your power, would you observe the position of the pistil in different plants, in lately opened flowers of the same age? |
| 2740 | Now, is this not odd? |
| 2740 | Now, some persons can move the skin of their hairy heads; and is this not effected by the panniculus? |
| 2740 | On what kind of coast or land could the plants have lived? |
| 2740 | One of this name has made a splendid medical discovery of nicotine counteracting strychnine and tetanus? |
| 2740 | Or in extreme prostration from any illness? |
| 2740 | P.S.--Do you happen to know, when there are only four stamens, whether it is the petal or sepal- facers which are preserved? |
| 2740 | P.S.--I may give as instance of[ this] class of facts, that Barrow asserts that a male Emberiza(?) |
| 2740 | Please to tell me where I can find any account of the auditory organs in the orthoptera? |
| 2740 | Prof. Haughtons at Dublin? |
| 2740 | Queries: Does any female bird regularly sing? |
| 2740 | Secondly, may I quote you that you have often(?) |
| 2740 | Secondly: Have you any white and yellow varieties of Verbascum which you could give me, or propagate for me, or LEND me for a year? |
| 2740 | Shall I call on Friday morning at 9.30 and sit half an hour with you? |
| 2740 | Shall you do any levelling? |
| 2740 | Should you care to see an elaborate German pamphlet by Hermann Muller on the gradation and distinction of the forms of Epipactis and of Platanthera? |
| 2740 | The map of Etna, which I have been just looking at, looks like a sudden falling in, does it not? |
| 2740 | These notions are at least possible, and would they not vitiate your argument? |
| 2740 | Thirdly: Can you give me seeds of any Rubiaceae of the sub- order Cinchoneae, as Spermacoce, Diodia, Mitchella, Oldenlandia? |
| 2740 | Thursday[ 1874?]. |
| 2740 | To return again to subject of crossing: I have been inclined to speculate so far, as to think( my!?) |
| 2740 | Was the latter point put in in a hurry to round the sentence, or do you really know of cases? |
| 2740 | Was there ever such an enigma? |
| 2740 | What a curious case your Gongora must be: could you spare me one of the largest capsules? |
| 2740 | What can the explanation be? |
| 2740 | What do you think about it? |
| 2740 | What do you think of having Scott there for a year or two to work and experiment? |
| 2740 | What do you think of this notion? |
| 2740 | What is the character or colour of the first plumage of bright yellow or mealy canaries which breed true to these tints? |
| 2740 | What is the difference in flowers of the rue? |
| 2740 | What is the meaning of the mucus so copiously emitted from the moistened seeds of Iberis, and of at least some species of Linum? |
| 2740 | What kind of birds were these twenty? |
| 2740 | What kinds of seeds have the plants which are common to the distant mountain- summits in Africa? |
| 2740 | What other mode of transit is conceivable? |
| 2740 | What species is it? |
| 2740 | What think you? |
| 2740 | What will Sir William say? |
| 2740 | When the Callithrix sciureus screams violently, does it wrinkle up the skin round the eyes like a baby always does? |
| 2740 | When the elephants in the garden are turned out and are excited so as to move quickly, do they carry their tails aloft? |
| 2740 | When the heart beats hard and quick, and the head becomes somewhat congested with blood in any illness, does the pupil contract? |
| 2740 | When thus screaming do the eyes become suffused with moisture? |
| 2740 | When will you come here again? |
| 2740 | Who will say what this rate and what this duration is? |
| 2740 | Why not sprinkle fresh plaster of Paris and make impenetrable crust? |
| 2740 | Will he find the opportunity for experimental observations, which are a passion with him? |
| 2740 | Will it not be possible to give enlarged drawings of some leading forms of trees? |
| 2740 | Will not that be a hard nut for you when you come to treat in detail on geographical distribution? |
| 2740 | Will you advise me for him? |
| 2740 | Will you ask Sutton to observe carefully? |
| 2740 | Will you have the kindness to look occasionally at your bee- Ophrys near Torquay, and see whether pollinia are ever removed? |
| 2740 | Will you have the kindness to tell me whether the birds prefer one colour to another? |
| 2740 | Will you look to this? |
| 2740 | Will you not be puzzled when you come to the orchids? |
| 2740 | Will you suggest to Oliver to review this paper? |
| 2740 | Would a comparison of the ashes of terrestrial peat and coal give any clue? |
| 2740 | Would it be worth while to send a corrected copy of the"Courant"to the"Gardeners''Chronicle?" |
| 2740 | Would it not be better to dye the tail alone and crown of head, so as not to make too great difference? |
| 2740 | Would it not be truer to say that Nature cares only for the superior individuals and then makes her new and better races? |
| 2740 | Would it not be worth while to borrow one of these from Sir H. James as a curiosity to hang up? |
| 2740 | Would not the Atlantic and Antarctic volcanoes be the best examples for you, as there then can be no coral mud to depress the bottom? |
| 2740 | Would not tubes protrude if placed on parts of column or base of petals, etc., near to the stigma? |
| 2740 | Would the Royal Agricultural Society be a fitting place? |
| 2740 | Would there be any chance of your coming to luncheon then? |
| 2740 | Would you have the kindness to send me word which end of the ovarium is meant by apex( that nearest the flower? |
| 2740 | Yet how can so experienced an observer as A. be deceived about lateral and terminal moraines? |
| 2740 | [ February, 1864?] |
| 2740 | [ congenitally?] |
| 2740 | ], not coinciding in height with the upper one[ outlet? |
| 2740 | and if so, would you like at some future time to have my few references and notes? |
| 2740 | and likewise what is the height of the single scattered islands standing between such groups of islands? |
| 2740 | and whether in the four- stamened forms the pistil is rectangularly bent or is straight? |
| 2740 | and, if so, do they grow in a new or abnormal direction? |
| 2740 | can D. Forbes really show the great elevation of Chili? |
| 2740 | equal, long or short styled? |
| 2740 | folding one open hand over the other on the lower part of chest( whilst recumbent?) |
| 2740 | how is the ovarium, especially in the rue? |
| 2740 | leaves move together towards the apex of leaf? |
| 2740 | men or women?) |
| 2740 | moult or when adult? |
| 2740 | or do the intermediate forms, which are said to connect abroad this species and the bee- orchis, ever there occur? |
| 2740 | or why should they have survived there more than on the main island, if once connected? |
| 2740 | plumage, what colours are the wings and tails after the first(?) |
| 2740 | seen persons( young or old? |
| 2740 | sloping terraces in the Spean, would not Mr. J. have noticed gigantic moraines across the valley opposite the opening of Lake Treig? |
| 2740 | the functions of the hairs]? |
| 2740 | to the name? |
| 2740 | what would be the result of pure or nearly pure layers of very different mineralogical composition being metamorphosed? |
| 2740 | which I had undermined on the summit of Ashley Heath, 720(?) |
| 2740 | who, evincing no great fear, were about to undergo severe operation under chloroform, showing resignation by( alternately?) |
| 2739 | ), and the mountains on W. coast in some degree connect the extra- tropical floras of Cape and Australia? 2739 Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for climbing trees and seizing insects in the chinks of the bark?" |
| 2739 | ( PLATE: EDWARD FORBES 1844? |
| 2739 | ( Was not R. Brown[ with] Flinders?) |
| 2739 | (?) |
| 2739 | ), as applied to plants? |
| 2739 | ), the mountains of which must originally have differed from each other in height 8,000( or 10,000?) |
| 2739 | ); in confirmation of this in the same formation I found a large surface of the osseous polygonal plates, which"late observations"( what are they?) |
| 2739 | 21 orders with 1 genus, having 7.95 species( or 4.6?). |
| 2739 | 9[ 1859?]. |
| 2739 | A shell which I believe is the Gryphaea is the most abundant-- an Ostrea, Turratella, Ammonites, small bivalves, Terebratulae(?). |
| 2739 | Again, if an imaginary decapod retained, when adult, many Zoea characters, would this not be a case of retardation? |
| 2739 | America( where nearly the same flora exists as in Canada?) |
| 2739 | And why does conscience prescribe one kind of action and condemn another kind? |
| 2739 | Are European birds blown to America? |
| 2739 | Are the Azorean erratics an established fact? |
| 2739 | Are the other species of these genera wide rangers? |
| 2739 | Are the plates from your own drawings? |
| 2739 | Are there domestic bees? |
| 2739 | Are these subspecies really characteristic of certain different regions of Germany? |
| 2739 | Are you not struck by his metaphors and similes? |
| 2739 | As you care so much for insular floras, are you aware that I collected all in flower on the Abrolhos Islands? |
| 2739 | At page 189 I quote Henslow( confirmed by Gunther) on Mus messorius( and other species?) |
| 2739 | But does this hold with South- West Australia or the Cape? |
| 2739 | But even taking this definition, are you sure that alpine forms are not inherited from one, two, or three generations? |
| 2739 | But how durst you attack a live bishop in that fashion? |
| 2739 | But what on earth has a mere suggestion like this to do with meum and tuum? |
| 2739 | But will not your brother artists scorn you for showing yourself so good an evolutionist? |
| 2739 | By the way, I met the other day Phillips, the palaeontologist, and he asked me,"How do you define a species?" |
| 2739 | By the way, have you read Tylor and Lecky? |
| 2739 | By the way, how comes it that you were not attacked? |
| 2739 | By what means, then, did illegitimate unions ever become sterile? |
| 2739 | CHARLES DARWIN, 1854(?). |
| 2739 | Can Sir Wyville Thomson name any one who has said that the evolution of species depends only on Natural Selection? |
| 2739 | Can you aid me with any analogous facts? |
| 2739 | Can you assist me, if you meet any rabbit- fancier? |
| 2739 | Can you come here for Sunday? |
| 2739 | Can you illuminate me? |
| 2739 | Can you not see that this suggests the conclusion that the plants are derived one way and the birds another? |
| 2739 | Can you refer me to any one or two books( for my power of reading is not great) which would illumine me? |
| 2739 | Can you remember any such account? |
| 2739 | Can you tell me( and I will promise to inflict no other question) whether climate explains this greater affinity? |
| 2739 | Can you think of cases in any one species in genus, or genus in family, with certain parts extra developed, and some adjoining parts reduced? |
| 2739 | Chelidonium majus,? |
| 2739 | Could it have been in Eyre''s book? |
| 2739 | Could you find time to do so soon? |
| 2739 | Could you make anything out of a history of the great steps in the progress of Botany, as representing the whole of Natural History? |
| 2739 | Could you not give a few woodcuts in your Travels to illustrate this? |
| 2739 | Could you not spin a long week out of this examination? |
| 2739 | Did I tell you how deeply pleased I was with Gray''s notice of my Arctic essay? |
| 2739 | Did not Bunbury show that some Orders of plants were singularly deficient? |
| 2739 | Did you collect sea- shells in Kerguelen- land? |
| 2739 | Did you ever hear of"Condy''s Ozonised Water"? |
| 2739 | Did you look to this, and can you tell me anything about it? |
| 2739 | Did you see Mr. Blyth in Calcutta? |
| 2739 | Do any of these genera cling to seaside? |
| 2739 | Do any tropical lichens or mosses, or European, withstand heat, or grow on any trees in hothouse at Kew? |
| 2739 | Do the Gauchos there admit it? |
| 2739 | Do you agree? |
| 2739 | Do you consider that a true variety should be produced by causes acting through the parent? |
| 2739 | Do you ever see Dr. Coldstream? |
| 2739 | Do you ever see Wollaston? |
| 2739 | Do you feel sure about the similar absence in the Sandwich group? |
| 2739 | Do you know any of this"foule"of plants? |
| 2739 | Do you know its use?... |
| 2739 | Do you know"Elements de Teratologie( on monsters, I believe) Vegetale,"par A. Moquin Tandon"? |
| 2739 | Do you make any progress with your journal of travels? |
| 2739 | Do you not find it takes much time? |
| 2739 | Do you not mean boreal or arctic plants? |
| 2739 | Do you not think that the conjugation of the Diatomaceae will ultimately throw light on the subject? |
| 2739 | Do you see the"Gardeners''Chronicle,"and did you notice some little experiments of mine on salting seeds? |
| 2739 | Do you think there are many such cases? |
| 2739 | Does Owen begin to find it more prudent to leave you alone? |
| 2739 | Does Oxalis corniculata present exactly the same varieties under very different climates? |
| 2739 | Does a bud ever produce cotyledons or embryonic leaves? |
| 2739 | Does he suppose the whole of Scotland thus worn down? |
| 2739 | Does not a very humid climate almost imply( Tyndall) an equable one? |
| 2739 | Does not some Yankee say that the American viviparous aphides are winged? |
| 2739 | Does not this sound well? |
| 2739 | Does the mulberry and magnolia show it is not very cold in winter, which I fear is the case? |
| 2739 | Does the publisher or do you lose by it? |
| 2739 | Does the water from this country crop out in springs in Holmsdale or in the valley of the Thames? |
| 2739 | Down, August 14th[ 1869?] |
| 2739 | Down, December 1st[ 1858?]. |
| 2739 | Down, December 22nd[ 1866?]. |
| 2739 | Down, December 23rd[ 1866?]. |
| 2739 | Down, January 11th[ 1860?]. |
| 2739 | Down, January 11th[ 1867?]. |
| 2739 | Down, January 7th[ 1867?]. |
| 2739 | Down, June 12th[ 1867?]. |
| 2739 | Down, March 27th[ 1864?]. |
| 2739 | Down, March 5th[ 1860?]. |
| 2739 | Down, May 2nd[ 1856?] |
| 2739 | Down, May 31st[ 1863?]. |
| 2739 | Down, November 15th[ 1855?]. |
| 2739 | Down, November 25th[ 1862?]. |
| 2739 | Down, September 1st[ 184-?]. |
| 2739 | Down,[ 1857?] |
| 2739 | Down[ 1857?]. |
| 2739 | Down[ 1858?] |
| 2739 | Down[ February?] |
| 2739 | Down[ June?] |
| 2739 | Down[ June?] |
| 2739 | Down[ November?] |
| 2739 | EDWARD FORBES, 1844(?). |
| 2739 | First, why do I think it obligatory to do my duty? |
| 2739 | Fumaria officinalis.? |
| 2739 | HOOKER, 1870? |
| 2739 | Harvey writes:"You ask-- were all the infinitely numerous kinds of animals and plants created as eggs or seed, or as full grown? |
| 2739 | Has Lyell been consulted? |
| 2739 | Has a common rose produced by SEED a moss- rose? |
| 2739 | Has the action of running water or the sea formed this deep ravine? |
| 2739 | Have any of the B. Ayrean seeds produced plants? |
| 2739 | Have you any thoughts of Southampton? |
| 2739 | Have you anybody in Scotland from whom you could get the seeds? |
| 2739 | Have you at Kew any Eucalyptus or Australian Mimosa which sets its seeds? |
| 2739 | Have you begun regularly to write your book on the antiquity of man? |
| 2739 | Have you ever seen it stated in any sporting work that game has become wilder in this country? |
| 2739 | Have you ever thought of publishing your travels, and working in them the less abstruse parts of your Natural History? |
| 2739 | Have you it? |
| 2739 | Have you kept these seedling peaches? |
| 2739 | Have you materials to show to what little height it ever ascends the mountains of Java or Sumatra? |
| 2739 | Have you no reverence for fine lawn sleeves? |
| 2739 | Have you read Hopkins in the last"Fraser?" |
| 2739 | Have you seen Bentham''s remarks on species in his address to the Linnean Society? |
| 2739 | Have you seen Weismann''s pamphlet"Einfluss der Isolirung,"Leipzig, 1872? |
| 2739 | Have you seen the slashing article of December 26th in the"Daily News,"against my stealing from my"master,"the author of the"Vestiges?" |
| 2739 | Have you the volume published by Lowe on Madeira? |
| 2739 | Have you written to Kolliker? |
| 2739 | Hooker, 1844] to the Athenaeum Club? |
| 2739 | How are you and all yours? |
| 2739 | How can this be, if there is no disinclination to crossing? |
| 2739 | How could vertebrata be predominant under the conditions of life in which parasitic worms live? |
| 2739 | How do you think I succeeded? |
| 2739 | How does your journal get on? |
| 2739 | How is it with any other British plants in New Zealand, or at the foot of the Himalaya? |
| 2739 | How the devil does he find them out? |
| 2739 | How would it be to speak to Owen as soon as your own mind is made up? |
| 2739 | Hurstpierpoint,[ April?] |
| 2739 | I am collecting all cases of bud- variations, in contradistinction to seed- variations( do you like this term, for what some gardeners call"sports"? |
| 2739 | I am very glad to hear of your"three- year- old"vigour[? |
| 2739 | I fear you will think me troublesome in my offer; but have you the second German edition of the"Origin?" |
| 2739 | I find, however, plenty of difficulty in showing even a vague probability of this; especially in the Leguminosae, though their[ structure?] |
| 2739 | I have not seen the Duke''s( or Dukelet''s? |
| 2739 | I perfectly understand and feel the force of your argument in reference to birds per se, but why do these not apply to insects and plants? |
| 2739 | I presume he made fine sections: if you are accustomed to such histological work, would it not be worth while to examine hairs of tail of mice? |
| 2739 | I quite agree that the Government ought to have made him long ago, but what does the Government know or care for Science? |
| 2739 | I really think the formation is in some places( it varies much) nearly 2,000 feet thick, it occurs often with a green( epidote?) |
| 2739 | I should extremely like to see your reasons published in detail, for it''riles''me( this is a proper expression, is it not?) |
| 2739 | I should like to hear whether this does not occur with widely ranging insect- genera? |
| 2739 | I trust you will work out the New Zealand flora, as you have commenced at end of letter: is it not quite an original plan? |
| 2739 | I wish he had tabulated his results; could you not suggest to him to draw up a paper of such results, comparing these Islands with Madeira? |
| 2739 | I wonder whether two varieties of wheat could be similarly treated? |
| 2739 | I write now chiefly to know whether you can tell me how to write to Hermann Schlagenheit( is this spelt right?) |
| 2739 | If I had to cut up myself in a review I would have[ worried?] |
| 2739 | If Natural Selection can NOT do this, how do species ever arise, except when a variety is isolated? |
| 2739 | If any one were to ridicule any belief of the bishop''s, would he not blandly shrug his shoulders and be inexpressibly shocked? |
| 2739 | If the view does not apply to animals, will it suffice for man? |
| 2739 | If you do, would you give him my kind remembrances? |
| 2739 | If you have written, I must wait, and in this case will you kindly let me hear as soon as you hear from Kolliker? |
| 2739 | In a letter to Darwin, December 21st(? |
| 2739 | In a letter to Hooker, May 22nd, 1860, Darwin wrote:"Have you Pyrola at Kew? |
| 2739 | In a plant in a state of nature, does cutting off the sap tend to produce flower- buds? |
| 2739 | In other words, why attribute to them conscious aesthetic qualities at all? |
| 2739 | In the third column have you really materials to speak of confirming the proportion of winged and wingless insects on islands? |
| 2739 | Is East Asia nearly as well known as West America? |
| 2739 | Is it a book? |
| 2739 | Is it a good book, and will it treat on hereditary malconformations or varieties? |
| 2739 | Is it not an extraordinary fact, the great difference in position of the heart in different species of Cleodora? |
| 2739 | Is it not grand the way in which the Bishop asserts that all such facts are explained by ideas in God''s mind? |
| 2739 | Is it not opposed quite to the case of Teneriffe and Madeira, and Mediterranean Islands? |
| 2739 | Is it not probable that guest- flies were aboriginally gall- makers, and bear the same relation to them which Apathus probably does to Bombus? |
| 2739 | Is it true that female Primula plants always produce females by parthenogenesis? |
| 2739 | Is not Verbenaceae very closely allied to Labiatae? |
| 2739 | Is not a very clever man a grade above a very dull one? |
| 2739 | Is not the similarity of plants of Kerguelen Land and southern S. America very curious? |
| 2739 | Is the difference due to denudation during elevation? |
| 2739 | Is the hair of your horse at all curly? |
| 2739 | Is there any Abstract or Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society published? |
| 2739 | Is there any instance in the northern hemisphere of plants being similar at such great distances? |
| 2739 | Is there any truth in this suspicion? |
| 2739 | Is this not like the Viola case? |
| 2739 | Is this not so? |
| 2739 | Is this not so? |
| 2739 | Is this owing to the summits having existed from the most ancient times as open downs and the valleys having been filled up with brushwood? |
| 2739 | Is this so? |
| 2739 | It is poetry, and can I say anything more severe? |
| 2739 | It might be asked why is development so all- potent in classification, as I fully admit it is? |
| 2739 | JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, 1870(?). |
| 2739 | June 27th[ 1863?] |
| 2739 | Lecture VI., page 151, line 7 from top-- wetting FEET or bodies? |
| 2739 | March 25th[ 1844? |
| 2739 | May I keep the lists now returned? |
| 2739 | Moor Park, Farnham, Surrey[ 1857?]. |
| 2739 | Must the mere precedence rigorously outweigh the apparent opinion of many old naturalists? |
| 2739 | My God, is not the case difficult enough, without its being, as I must think, falsely made more difficult? |
| 2739 | My wife asked,"How did he find that it stayed four hours under water without breathing?" |
| 2739 | Naudin,"Revue Horticole,"1852?. |
| 2739 | Now I have five or six other copies to distribute, and will you be so very kind as to help me? |
| 2739 | Now, did any almond grow near your mother peach? |
| 2739 | Now, do you agree thus far? |
| 2739 | Now, does this occur with buds or do only rather strongly marked varieties thus appear at rare intervals of time by buds? |
| 2739 | Now, is it worth while to go on at this length of detail? |
| 2739 | Now, will you have the kindness to tell me how I can learn to see the error of my ways? |
| 2739 | Of course he is quite at liberty to scorn and hate me, but why take such trouble to express something more than friendship? |
| 2739 | Of the 89 Dezertas insects[ only?] |
| 2739 | Of these naturalised plants are any or many more variable in your opinion than the average of your United States plants? |
| 2739 | On the other hand,[ have] not the Sandwich Islands in the Northern Hemisphere some odd relations to Australia? |
| 2739 | Or does it tend to atheism or pantheism?" |
| 2739 | P.S.--Will you by silence give consent to the following? |
| 2739 | Page 143: ought not"Sanscrit"to be"Aryan"? |
| 2739 | Papaver dubium,? |
| 2739 | Published in Mr. Clodd''s memoir of Bates in the"Naturalist on the Amazons,"1892, page l.) What do you mean by"individual plants"? |
| 2739 | Review?" |
| 2739 | Second, why do I think it my duty to do this and not do that? |
| 2739 | See Falconer at the bottom of page 80: it is the old difficulty-- how can variability co- exist with persistence of type? |
| 2739 | Shall we have the pleasure of seeing you there? |
| 2739 | Shall you attend the Council of the Royal Society on Thursday next? |
| 2739 | Shall you return through England? |
| 2739 | Shall you think me impertinent( I am sure I do not mean to be so) if I hazard a remark on the style, which is of more importance than some think? |
| 2739 | Should I send it to Bell? |
| 2739 | Should you object offering for me this reward or payment to your little girls? |
| 2739 | Since writing to you I have had more correspondence with the master of hounds, and I see his[ record?] |
| 2739 | Supposing Greenland were repeopled from Scandinavia over ocean way, why should Carices be the chief things brought? |
| 2739 | Surely, can not an overwhelming mass of facts be brought against such a proposition? |
| 2739 | Thank you for the Aristolochia and Viscum cases: what species were they? |
| 2739 | The article begins with the following question:"First Reader-- Is Darwin''s theory atheistic or pantheistic? |
| 2739 | The conviction that I was on the Tertiary strata was so strong by this time in my mind, that on the third day in the midst of lavas and[? |
| 2739 | The experiment seems to me worth trying: what do you think? |
| 2739 | The latter strikes me thus: why should plants and insects have been so extensively changed and birds not at all? |
| 2739 | The two words marked[?] |
| 2739 | This is a comfortable arrangement, is it not?" |
| 2739 | This letter goes the same way, so that if in course of due time you do not receive the box, will you be kind enough to write to Falmouth? |
| 2739 | To this it is sufficient to reply, was your primordial organism, or were your four or five progenitors created as egg, seed, or full grown? |
| 2739 | Was the flesh at all sweet? |
| 2739 | Was there anything to show that the stigma was ready for pollen in these two cases? |
| 2739 | What are you doing now? |
| 2739 | What can be the meaning or use of the great diversity of the external generative organs in your cases, in Bombus, and the phytophagous coleoptera? |
| 2739 | What can there be in the act of copulation necessitating such complex and diversified apparatus? |
| 2739 | What do you think? |
| 2739 | What does Austen make the date of the Channel?--ante or post Glacial?" |
| 2739 | What good would their perfected senses and their intellect serve under such conditions? |
| 2739 | What makes H. Watson a renegade? |
| 2739 | What was it? |
| 2739 | What will the end be? |
| 2739 | When is your great work to make its appearance? |
| 2739 | When shall I see a memoir on Insular floras, and on the Pacific? |
| 2739 | Where is it published? |
| 2739 | Where, then, was the edge or coast- line of it, Atlantic- wards? |
| 2739 | Why could not you come over, on the urgent invitation given to European savans-- and free passage provided back and forth in the steamers? |
| 2739 | Why did he not put his facts before us, and let them rest?''" |
| 2739 | Why do the plants of Porto Santo and Madeira agree so nearly? |
| 2739 | Why do we obey conscience or feel pain in disobeying it? |
| 2739 | Why do you not let me buy the Indian Flora? |
| 2739 | Why has nobody thought of trying the experiment before, instead of taking it for granted that salt water kills seeds? |
| 2739 | Why should the one class of phenomena be without end or utility, a mere effect of contingency or chance, more than the other?" |
| 2739 | Why should you or I speak of variation as having been ordained and guided, more than does an astronomer, in discussing the fall of a meteoric stone? |
| 2739 | Will Owen answer you? |
| 2739 | Will they pay at the Royal Institution for copying on a large size drawings of these birds? |
| 2739 | Will you be so kind as to read the enclosed, and return it to me? |
| 2739 | Will you endeavour to screw out time and grant me this favour? |
| 2739 | Will you grant me the favour of giving me any clue, where I could see the book? |
| 2739 | Will you just tell me roughly the result? |
| 2739 | Will you look through these printed lists, and if you can, mark with red cross such as you would suggest? |
| 2739 | Will you not come next year, if a special invitation is sent you on the same terms? |
| 2739 | Will you receive it, and it could be left at my brother''s? |
| 2739 | Will you some time have to examine the Chalk and its junction with London Clay and Greensand? |
| 2739 | Will you think over this and let me hear the result? |
| 2739 | With respect to areas with numerous"individually durable"forms, can it be said that they generally present a"broken"surface with"impassable barriers"? |
| 2739 | With respect to naturalised plants: are any social with you, which are not so in their parent country? |
| 2739 | Without going into any details, is not this a strong general argument? |
| 2739 | Would Lindley hear of and dislike being proposed for the Copley and not succeeding? |
| 2739 | Would it not be a good rebuff to ask him how he knows there were trees at all on the leafless plains of La Plata for his Mylodons to tear down? |
| 2739 | Would it not be better on this view to propose him for the Royal? |
| 2739 | Would it not be very interesting to know how the gall- makers behaved with respect to these hybrids? |
| 2739 | Would it not be well for you to put yourself in communication with him, as otherwise something will perhaps be twice laboured over? |
| 2739 | Would it not pay for a collector to go there, especially if aided by any subscription? |
| 2739 | Would not my argument about wingless insular insects perhaps apply to truly Alpine insects? |
| 2739 | Would not the southern end of Chiloe make a good division for you? |
| 2739 | Would this be in time? |
| 2739 | Would you believe it? |
| 2739 | Would you kindly answer me two or three questions if in your power? |
| 2739 | Would you not call this theological pedantry or display? |
| 2739 | Yet who could discover it? |
| 2739 | You also forget an author who, by means of atolls, contrived to submerge archipelagoes( or continents? |
| 2739 | You ask about the skipping of the Zoea stage in fresh- water decapods: is this an illustration of acceleration? |
| 2739 | You have, however, Ranunculus repens, Ranunculus parviflorus, Papaver rhoeas,? |
| 2739 | You may say, Then why trouble me? |
| 2739 | You speak as if only land- shells differed in Madeira and Porto Santo: does my memory deceive me that there is a host of representative insects? |
| 2739 | You speak of evergreen vegetation as leading to few or confined conditions; but is not evergreen vegetation connected with humid and equable climate? |
| 2739 | Your fact of greater number of European plants( N.B.--But do you mean greater percentage?) |
| 2739 | Your oak and chestnut case seems very curious; is it not the more so as beeches have gone to, or come from the south? |
| 2739 | [ 1862?] |
| 2739 | [ July?, 1841?]. |
| 2739 | [ July?, 1841?]. |
| 2739 | ]); and is it right to include American islands like Juan Fernandez and Galapagos? |
| 2739 | a large body of considerations on the other side, that this genus could not have been slowly accustomed to a cooler climate? |
| 2739 | and Java belong to the same botanical region-- i.e., that they have many non- littoral species in common? |
| 2739 | and is it not very surprising that New Zealand, so much nearer to Australia than South America, should have an intermediate flora? |
| 2739 | and would not the accumulation of a large number of slight differences of this kind lead to a great difference in the grade of organisation? |
| 2739 | for distant[?] |
| 2739 | for would it not be destruction to them to be blown from their proper home? |
| 2739 | has surprised me much; do you not think it odd, the fewness of peculiar species, and their rarity on the alpine heights? |
| 2739 | how at the first start of life, when there were only the simplest organisms, how did any complication of organisation profit them? |
| 2739 | how can you speak so of a living real Duke?) |
| 2739 | if not, perhaps I had better close with this proposal-- what do you think? |
| 2739 | if so, and the case is given briefly, would you have the great kindness to copy it? |
| 2739 | in the"Scotsman"( lent me by Horner)? |
| 2739 | incidentally mentioned in a letter to me that the heaths at the Cape of Good Hope were very variable, whilst in Europe they are(?) |
| 2739 | is inimitably adapted to favour crossing, I have never yet met with but one instance of a NATURAL MONGREL( nor mule?) |
| 2739 | not founded on mere artificial characters? |
| 2739 | of years had elapsed, and after such migration to milder seas? |
| 2739 | or can you explain in one or two sentences how I err? |
| 2739 | or is it because no chasms or boundaries can be drawn separating the many species? |
| 2739 | or is it one of the many utterly inexplicable problems in botanical geography? |
| 2739 | so that does the state of knowledge allow a pretty fair comparison? |
| 2739 | surely does not Madeira abound with peculiar forms? |
| 2739 | the lecture]? |
| 2739 | together again; but had you not better wait till they are a little cooled? |
| 2739 | was ordained and"guided by an intelligent cause?" |
| 2739 | were found in most parts) in their respective countries? |
| 2739 | which lie nearest to the continent have a much stronger African character than the others, ought you not just to allude to this? |
| 2739 | with seed in its crop, and it would swim?" |
| 2739 | with this reflection,"What is the good of writing a thundering big book, when everything is in this green little book, so despicable for its size?" |