 | 1891 - 208 pages
...hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked upon as a microcosm— a little universe— formed of a host of self-propagating organ 'isms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars of heaven." "Animals and Plants," vol.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 528 pages
...connect under one point of view these several grand classes of facts. An organic being is a microcosm—a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and numerous as the stars in heaven. CHAPTER XXVIII. CONCLUDING REMARKS. DOMESTICATION"—NATURE AND CAUSES... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1889 - 516 pages
...organic being ; but on the hypothesis here advanced, this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm, a little universe, formed of a host of self -propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven." l At what... | |
 | Hugo de Vries - 1889 - 226 pages
...Pangenesis. Von Hugo de Yries, ord. Prof, der Butaaik au der Universität von Amsterdam. An organic being is a microcosm, a little universe, formed of a host of selfpropagating organisms , inconceivably miaute and numerous as the stars in heaven. Darwin, Pangenesis. Jena. Verlag von Gustav Fischer. 1889.... | |
 | Charles Henry Waterhouse - 1890 - 330 pages
...vital force which characterizes the provision made for the maintenance of the species. " Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm, a little...inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars of heaven." * " If the eight or nine million eggs which the roe of a cod is said to contain developed into adult... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1890 - 532 pages
...confessedly is, to connect under one point of view these several grand classes of facts. An organic being is a microcosm — a little universe, formed of a host...self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and numerous as the stars in heaven. CHAPTER XXVIII. CONCLUDING REMAHKS. DOMESTICATION — NATURE AND CAUSES... | |
 | Conwy Lloyd Morgan - 1891 - 542 pages
...some lie dormant for a period, whilst others perish." Or, to vary the analogy, "an organic being is a microcosm- — a little universe formed of a host of self-propagating organisms." This is Darwin's provisional hypothesis of pangenesis, which has recently been accepted in a modified... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1892 - 492 pages
...men, not so much in kind as in degree. CHAPTER III ON ANIMAL LIFE — continued An organic being is a microcosm — a little universe, formed of a host...self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and numerous as the stars of heaven. DARWIN. CHAPTER TIT ON ANIMAL LIFE — continued. WE constantly speak... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 734 pages
...confessedly is, to connect under one point of view these several grand classes of facts. An organic being is a microcosm — a little universe, formed of a host...self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and numerous as the stars in heaven. CHAPTER XXVIII. CONCLUDINO REMARKS. DOMESTICATION — NATURE AND CAUSES... | |
 | 1897 - 840 pages
...organic being; but, on the hypothesis here advanced, this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm — a little...inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven." 8 The force of this concluding remark will be lost if we do not pause for a little to bring... | |
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Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm — a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven. 
