Heredity, with Preludes on Current EventsHoughton, Osgood & Company, 1879 - 268 pages |
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Page 192 - 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.
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Page 103 - It is universally admitted that the cells or units of the body increase by self-division or proliferation, retaining the same nature, and that they ultimately become converted into the various tissues and substances of the body.' But, besides this means of increase, I assume that the units throw off minute granules, which are dispersed throughout the whole system ; that these, when supplied with proper nutriment, multiply by self-division, and are ultimately developed into units like those from which...
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