A first book in organic evolutionShute, D. Kerfoot (Daniel Kerfoot)
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A first book in organic evolution
Shute, D. Kerfoot (Daniel Kerfoot)
Evolution
“Fechner seems to have hit the mark, when he compared feeling and
motion to the inside and the outside curves of a circle; they are
entirely different and yet the same. The inside curve is concave,
the outside curve is convex. If we construct rules relating first to
the concave inside and then to the convex outside, we shall notice a
parallelism in the formulas; yet this parallelism will appear only in
the abstractions which have been made of one and the same thing from a
different aspect. It results from making two different abstractions. The
abstract conceptions form two parallel systems, but the real thing can be
represented as parallel only in the sense that it is parallel to itself;
it is the parallelism of identity. There is but one line and this one
line is concave if viewed from the inside, if viewed from the outside
convex.” Dr. Carus in “The Soul of Man,” p. 20.
[18] Central Soul (Dr. Carus).
[19] Clifford.
[20] It is more scientific to say a _Cosmic Soul immanent_ in the Cosmos.
“God, as I conceive him to be, is not less than a person, but more than a
person.” Dr. Paul Carus.
[21] Fiske.
[22] Fiske.
[23] “Religion is the conception by man of his relation to the infinite
universe and its source; and morality is the ever present guide of life
proceeding only from this relation.” Tolstoi.
[24] Fiske.
[25] Society also utterly ignores the rights of unborn children in
permitting the constant marriages of men and women having constitutions
tainted with hereditary diseases, as insanity, syphilis, tuberculosis,
etc.
[26] In Dipnoi, which are fishes with Amphibian characters, the paired
fins have each a central segmented axis which bears on each side a series
of radial pieces. The air bladder is a true lung, and is frequently used
as such. The heart shows indications of becoming three chambered (two
auricles and one ventricle). The left auricle contains arterial blood
from the lungs. There is an inferior vena cava. The nasal sacs open
posteriorly into the mouth.
INDEX.
Achromatin, 6.
Acquired Characters, 65, 71, 72, 76.
Actinozoa, 232.
Age, of Amphibians, 105.
Age, of Fishes, 101.
Age, of Mammals, 111.
Age, of Man, 114.
Age, of Molluscs, 98, 100.
Age, of Reptiles, 110.
Air-bladder, 236.
Allantois, 238.
Altruism, 223, 225.
Amblypoda, 111.
Amblystoma, 62, 63.
America, Central, 141.
America, South, 83, 145, 146.
America, North, development of, 85.
America, Archæan, 85.
America, Cretaceous, 87.
America, Tertiary, 88, 89.
America, tropical, 146, 147, 149.
Amia, 236, 237.
Amitosis, 28.
Ammonites, 100, 108.
Amnion, 238.
Amœba proteus, 10, 35, 230.
Amphibia, 96, 102, 103, 104, 105, 235, 238.
Amphibia, of snake-like form, 103.
Amphibia, generalized, 107.
Amphimixis, 46.
Amphineura, 234.
Amphioxus, 235.
Anaptomorphus, 111.
Ancon sheep, 49.
Angiospermæ, 245.
Animals, backboned, 96, 101, 103, 152.
Animals, birth rate of, 123.
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