Problems of Evolution

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T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1901 - 373 ページ
 

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285 ページ - A religion is a form of belief, providing an ultrarational sanction for that large class of conduct in the individual where his interests and the interests of the social organism are antagonistic, and by which the former are rendered subordinate to the latter in the general interests of the evolution which the race is undergoing.
85 ページ - From this one lamb the otter or ancon semi-monstrous breed was raised ; as these sheep could not leap over the fences, it was thought that they would be valuable ; but they have been supplanted by merinos, and thus exterminated. The sheep are remarkable from transmitting their character so truly that Colonel Humphreys 66 never heard of " but one questionable case " of an ancon ram and ewe not producing ancon offspring.
88 ページ - Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away!
69 ページ - ... its probable minimum rate of natural increase; it will be safest to assume that it begins breeding when thirty years old and goes on breeding till ninety years old, bringing forth six young in the interval and surviving till one hundred years old ; if this be so, after a period of from 740 to 750 years there would be nearly nineteen million elephants alive, descended from the first pair.
298 ページ - A slave, a stout, hungry fellow, coming up after the chief was gone, saw the unfinished dinner, and ate it up without asking questions. Hardly had he finished when he was informed by a horror-stricken spectator that the food of which he had eaten was the chiefs.
326 ページ - Man is, in substance and in structure, one with the brutes ; for, he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech, whereby, in the secular period of his existence, he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of every individual life in other animals...
85 ページ - From this one lamb the otter, or ancon, a semi-monstrous breed, was raised; as these sheep could not leap over the fences it was thought that they would be valuable; but they have been supplanted by merinos, and thus exterminated. The sheep are remarkable from transmitting their character so truly that Colonel Humphreys never heard of 'but one questionable case" of an ancon ram and ewe not producing ancon offspring.
31 ページ - Worn-out individuals are not only valueless to the species, but they are even harmful, for they take the place of those that are sound. Hence, by the operation of Natural Selection, the life of our hypothetically immortal individual would be shortened by the amount which was useless to the species.
215 ページ - Out of all the seas: But the black North-easter, Through the snowstorm hurled, Drives our English hearts of oak Seaward round the world. Come, as came our fathers...
297 ページ - ... his clothes were fatal to those who touched them — for taboo is extended from the tabooed person to the things he wears, or tastes, or handles, even to the objects on which he looks, as illustrated by the Samoan high priest and prophet Tupai. ' His very glance was poison. If he looked at a coco-nut tree it died, and if he glanced at a bread-fruit tree it also withered away.

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