 Every organized being constitutes a whole, a single and complete system, whose parts mutually correspond, and concur, by their reciprocal reaction, to the same definitive end. None of these parts can be changed without aftecting the others ; and consequently,...  Notices of the Proceedings - Page 185by Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1858Full view - About this book
 | 1856 - 582 pages
...reciprocal reaction to the same definitive end. None of these parts can be changed without affecting the others ; and consequently each taken separately...the tooth involves that of the condyle ; that of the shoulder-blade ; that of the claws : just as the equation of a curve involves all its properties. And... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1857 - 512 pages
...reciprocal reaction to the same definitive end. None of these parts can be changed without affecting the others ; and consequently each taken separately indicates and gives all the rest." And he then gives sundry illustrations : arguing that the carnivorous form of tooth necessitating a... | |
 | 1857 - 510 pages
...alterations in the other parts. Cuvier says, " None of these parts can be changed without affecting the others; and consequently, each taken separately, indicates and gives all the rest." The first of these propositions may pass; but the second, which is alleged to follow from it, is not... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1858 - 460 pages
...reciprocal reaction to the same definitive end. None of these parts can be changed without affecting the others ; and consequently each taken separately, indicates and gives all the rest." And he then cites sundry illustrations : arguing that the carnivorous form of tooth necessitating a... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1858 - 466 pages
...reciprocal reaction to the same definitive end. None of these parts can be changed without affecting the others; and consequently each taken separately, indicates and gives all the rest." And he then cites sundry illustrations: arguing that the carnivorous form of tooth necessitating a... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 606 pages
...which it passes, and a host of characters of the skeleton, the articulations, and the motor muscles The form of the tooth involves that of the condyle, that of the omoplate, that of the talons, just as the equation of a curve involves all its properties, and, just... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1891 - 494 pages
...alterations in the other parts. Cuvier says, " None of these parts can be changed without affecting the others; and consequently, each taken separately, indicates and gives all the rest." The first of these propositions may pass, but the second, which it is alleged follows from it, is not... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1898 - 702 pages
...reciprocal reaction to the same definite end. . Nona of these parts can be changed without affecting the others ; and, consequently, each taken separately indicates and gives all the rest." The first paragraph here embodies the principles of both physiological and morphological correlation.... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1910 - 496 pages
...reciprocal reaction to the same definite end. None of these parts can be changed without affecting the others ; and consequently each taken separately, indicates and gives all the rest.'' He then gives illustrations : arguing that the carnivorous form of tooth necessitating a certain action... | |
 | Edward Stuart Russell - 1916 - 410 pages
...you can infer the reduced clavicle, and so on. " In a word, the form of the tooth implies the form of the condyle ; that of the shoulder blade that of the claws, just as the equation of a curve implies all its properties."1 Similarly the great respiratory power of birds is correlated with their... | |
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