Heredity, with Preludes on Current EventsR.D. Dickinson, 1879 - 118 páginas |
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Acropolis alliance American animal animalcule assert Athenian atoms Attica average Biology bioplasm body Bosphorus Boston Monday Lectureship cause of form cell chemical affinities chemical forces Christian co-ordinating force co-ordinating power CURRENT EVENTS definition Delitzsch delivered in Tremont Divine Elberfeld elective affinities England English English-speaking existence experience fact form in organisms gemmules germ germinal matter Häckel Herbert Spencer hereditary descent heredity holy human hundred hypothesis Indian inorganic matter Julius Müller land laws of hereditary lecture living tissues Lotze mass of bioplasm materialistic Mayflower microscope millions monogamy moral movements of germinal nation natural law necessary beliefs organisation original pangenesis particles philosophy physical forces physical identity physical organisms Plymouth Rock power which co-ordinates PRELUDE ON CURRENT Professor propositions race Schöberlein scholar self-evident truths side soul spirit suppose supreme thing thought Tiberius Gracchus tion topic traits Ulrici unemployed unit universe whole
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Página 25 - No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around ; The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.
Página 16 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
Página 86 - As Heaven and Earth are fairer, fairer far Than Chaos and blank Darkness, though once chiefs; And as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth In form and shape compact and beautiful...
Página 64 - Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another, And all to all the world besides: Each part may call the farthest, brother ; For head with foot hath private amity, And both with moons and tides. Nothing hath got so far, But man hath caught and kept it, as his prey. His eyes dismount the highest star ; He is in little all the sphere. Herbs gladly cure our flesh, because that they Find their acquaintance there.
Página 27 - For example, if Nations abstained from stealing, what need were there of fighting, — with its butcherings and burnings, decidedly the most expensive thing in this world? How much more two Nations, which, as I said, are but one Nation; knit in a thousand ways by Nature and Practical Intercourse; indivisible brother elements of the same great SAXONDOM, to which in all honourable ways be long life ! "When Mr.
Página 24 - A mass of living protoplasm is simply a molecular machine of great complexity, the total results of the working of which, or its vital phenomena, depend on the one hand upon its construction, and on the other, upon the energy supplied to it; and to speak of. 'vitality' as anything but the name of a series of operations is as if one should talk of the horologity of a clock, "f Professor J.
Página 37 - Thus at last man comes to feel, through acquired and perhaps inherited habit, that it is best for him to obey his more persistent impulses. The imperious word ought seems merely to imply the consciousness of the existence of a rule of conduct, however it may have originated.
Página 19 - Naples believes in the blood of St. Januarius. My original propositions may be stated thus. 1. Philosophy as a whole (I do not say specially biological science) has established a functional relation to exist between every fact of thinking, willing, or feeling, on the one side, and some molecular change in the body on the other side. 2. This relation is simply one of correspondence between moral and physical facts, not one of assimilation. The moral fact does not become a physical fact, is not adequately...
Página 21 - ... matter transformed does in turn become transforming force — that is, vital. And if that takes place after the vital process has once commenced, is it, it may be asked, extravagant to suppose that a similar transformation might at some period have commenced the process, and may...
Página 26 - It is universally admitted that the cells or units of the body increase by self-division or proliferation, retaining the same nature, and that they ultimately become converted into the various tissues and substances of the body. But, besides this means of increase, I assume that the units throw off minute granules, which are dispersed throughout the whole system ; that these, when supplied with proper nutriment, multiply by self-division, and are ultimately developed into units like those from which...