Is Darwin Right?: Or, The Origin of ManMrs. E.M.F. Denton, 1881 - 193페이지 |
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118 페이지 - Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me, Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, I know I was even there, I waited unseen and always, and slept through the lethargic mist, And took my time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon.
119 페이지 - Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me, My embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it. For it the nebula cohered to an orb, The long slow strata piled to rest it on, Vast vegetables gave it sustenance, Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care. All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul.
28 페이지 - have been purely bred from the original stock of Mr. Bakewell for upwards of fifty years. There is not a suspicion existing in the mind of any one at all acquainted with the subject, that the owner of either of them has deviated in any one instance from the pure blood of Mr. Bakewell's flock, and yet the differences between the sheep possessed by these two gentlemen is so great that they have the appearance of being quite different varieties.
111 페이지 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
118 페이지 - Immense have been the preparations for me, Faithful and friendly the arms that have helped me. Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen, For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings, They sent influences to look after what was to hold me. Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me, My embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it.
57 페이지 - No less remarkable is the foetal progress of the human brain. It first becomes a brain resembling that of a fish ; then it grows into the form of that of a reptile ; then into that of a bird ; then into that of a mammiferous quadruped ; and finally it assumes the form of a human brain ; " thus comprising in its foetal progress au epitome of geological history, as if man were in himself a compendium of all animated nature, and of kin to every creature that lives.
60 페이지 - ... Not being able to appreciate, or conceive, of the distinction between the psychical phenomena of a chimpanzee and of a Boschisman, or of an Aztec with arrested brain-growth, as being of a nature so essential as to preclude a comparison between them, or as being other than a difference of degree, I cannot shut my eyes to the significance of that all-pervading similitude of structure — every tooth, every bone, strictly homologous — which makes the determination of the difference between Homo...
75 페이지 - Of these twenty-one, or perhaps twenty-three, are ranked as distinct species, and would commonly be assumed to have been here created; yet the close affinity of most of these birds to American species is manifest in every character in their habits, gestures and tones of voice.
164 페이지 - And assuredly, there is no mark of degradation about any part of its structure. It is, in fact, a fair average human skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage.
174 페이지 - The cry of the birds of prey, are alike unpleasant and rough in all ; the song of all the thrushes is equally sweet and harmonious, and modulated upon similar rhythms, and combined in similar melodies ; the chit of all titmice is loquacious and hard ; the quack of the duck is alike nasal in all. But who ever thought that the...