 ... and he gives the same reason upon which Agassiz insisted — for in such case there would be nothing to account for the unlikeness of different organisms. Millions of species of plants and animals, more or less contrasted in their structures, are...  Boston Monday Lectures: Heredity - Page 153by Joseph Cook - 1879Full view - About this book
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 510 pages
...aggregating into specific shapes; for in such case, there would be nothing to account for the unlikenesses of different organisms. Millions of species of plants...units, are clearly not the possessors of this property. On the other hand, this property cannot reside in what may be roughly distinguished as the morphological... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 506 pages
...aggregating into specific shapes ; for in such case, there would be nothing to account for the unlikenesses of different organisms. Millions of species of plants...units, are clearly not the possessors of this property. On the other hand, this property cannot reside in what may be roughly distinguished as the morphological... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1879 - 136 pages
...throughout the universe ; and therefore there is no accounting for the diversity of form in organisations if physical forces are the only ones at work in them....chemical units are clearly not the possessors of this property."1 Many a man who calls himself a Spencerian, but is only a random student of his writings,... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1879 - 154 pages
...cannot be that the atoms of albumen, or fibrine, or gelatine, or the hypothetical proteinsubstancej possess this power of aggregating into specific shapes...chemical units are clearly not the possessors of this property."1 Many a man who calls himself a Spencerian, but is only a random student of his writings,... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1881 - 200 pages
...cannot be that the atoms of albumen or fibrine, or gelatine or the hypothetical protein substance, possess this power of aggregating into specific shapes...the organisms they composed, the occurrence of such endless varied forms would be inexplicable. Hence, what we may call the chemical units are clearly... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1891 - 522 pages
...aggregating into specific shapes ; for in such case, there would be nothing to account for the unlikenesses of different organisms. Millions of species of plants...inexplicable. Hence, what we may call the chemical units, arc clearly not the possessors of this property. On the other hand, this property cannot reside in... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1891 - 546 pages
...aggregating into specific shapes ; for in such case, there would be nothing to account for the unlikonesses of different organisms. Millions of species of plants...endlessly varied forms would be inexplicable. Hence, what wo may call the chemical units, are clearly not the possessors of this property. On the other hand,... | |
 | Sir George Archdall O'Brien Reid - 1896 - 392 pages
...aggregating into specific shapes, for in such cases there would be nothing to account for the unlikenesses of different organisms. Millions of species of plants...their structures, are all mainly built up of these atoms. But if the polarities of these atoms determined the forms of the organisms they composed, the... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1898 - 724 pages
...proclivities of proteid molecules determined the forms of the organisms built up of them or by them, the occurrence of such endlessly varied forms would...units are clearly not the possessors of this property. On the other hand, this property cannot reside in what may be roughly distinguished as the morphological... | |
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