Heredity, with Preludes on Current EventsHoughton, Osgood & Company, 1879 - 268 Seiten |
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Seite 56 - 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.
Seite 61 - Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
Seite 190 - 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.
Seite 99 - 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.
Seite 244 - So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty, born of us And fated to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness : nor are we Thereby more conquer'd than by us the rule Of shapeless Chaos.
Seite 112 - Est igitur haec, judices, non scripta, sed nata, lex ; quam non didicimus, accepimus, legimus, verum ex natura ipsa arripuimus, hausimus, expressimus ; ad quam non docti, sed facti, non 25 instituti, sed imbuti sumus...
Seite 130 - 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.
Seite 104 - ... circumstances would reproduce the whole ; but if the upper and lower surfaces were to differ in texture from each other and from the central portion, then all three parts would have to throw off gemmules, which when aggregated by mutual affinity would form either buds or the sexual elements, and would ultimately be developed into a similar organism. Precisely the same view may be extended to one of the higher animals ; although in this case many thousand gemmules must be thrown off from the various...
Seite 269 - EE Beardsley, DD THE HISTORY OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN CONNECTICUT. Fourth Edition. 2 vols. 8vo, $6.00. LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF SAMUEL SEABURY, DD, First Bishop of Connecticut, and of the Episcopal Church in the United States.