 | 1864 - 382 pages
...tendency. Cut off the legs, the tail, the jaws — separately or all together — and, as Spallanzan showed long ago, these parts not only grow again,...on the same type as those which were lost. The new ja\v or leg is a newt's, and never by any accident more like that of a frog. What is true of the newt... | |
 | 1865 - 372 pages
...tendency. Cut oiF the legs, the tail, the 'jaws — separately or all together — and, as Spallanzan showed long ago, these parts not only grow again,...and never by any accident more like that of a frog. What is true of the newt 13 true of every animal and plant ; the acorn tends to build itself up again... | |
 | 1867 - 378 pages
...tendency. Cut off the legs, the tail, the jaws — separately or all together — and, as Spallanzan showed long ago, these parts not only grow again,...and never by any accident more like that of a frog. What is true of the newt is true of every animal and plant ; the acorn tends to build itself up again... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 400 pages
...each in its proper spot, and in such due proportion to the rest, as to reproduce the form, the colour, and the size, characteristic of the parental stock...and never by any accident more like that of a frog. What is true of the newt is true of every animal and of every plant ; the acorn tends to build itself... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1871 - 422 pages
...each in its proper spot, and in such due proportion to the rest, as to reproduce the form, the colour, and the size, characteristic of the parental stock...The new jaw, or leg, is a newt's, and never by any 262 ^Tan Serm0ns, dssags, mttt gfb«fos. accident more like that of a frog. What is true of the newt... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1871 - 408 pages
...tendency. Cut off the legs, the tail, the jaws, separately or all together, and, as Spallanzani sliowed long ago, these parts not only grow again, but the...and never by any accident more like that of a frog. What is true of the newt is true of every animal and of every plant ; the acorn tends to build itself... | |
 | Constance E. Plumptre - 1888 - 210 pages
...lost parts possessed by newts. Cut off the legs, the tail, the jaws, separately or altogether, and these parts not only grow again, but the redintegrated...as those which were lost. The new jaw or leg is a newt s, and never by any accident more like that of a frog.f Now, since a child's well-being is presumably... | |
 | Lewis Thornton - 1890 - 396 pages
...with his plan before him, striving with skilful manipulation to perfect his work." Then, he goes on, " Even the wonderful powers of reproducing lost parts...and never by any accident more like that of a frog. What is true of the newt is true of every animal and of every plant; the acorn tends to build itself... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1894 - 504 pages
...animals are controlled by the same governing tendency. Cut off the legs, the II THE ORIGIN OP SPECIES 31 tail, the jaws, separately or all together, and, as...and never by any accident more like that of a frog. What is true of the newt is true of every animal and of every plant ; the acorn tends to build itself... | |
 | Frederick Hovenden - 1899 - 340 pages
...together, and, as Spallanzani showed long ago, these parts not only grow again, but the reintegrated limb is formed on the same type as those which were...newt's, and never by any accident more like that of a frog.1 What is true of the newt is true of every animal and of every plant ; the acorn tends to build... | |
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... and the size, characteristic of the parental stock ; but even the wonderful powers of reproducing lost parts possessed by these animals are controlled by the same governing tendency. Cut off the legs, the tail, the jaws, separately or all together,... 
