 | 1858 - 448 pages
...food. The animals which live on plants occupy a mean position between carnivorous animals, in which we reckon man, and vegetables, which the former could...place, these substances to the powerful digestion of the ox, permit the nourishment to store itself in the animal's body, in order in the end to gain it... | |
 | 1859 - 448 pages
...food. The animals which live on plants occupy a mean position between carnivorous animals, in which we reckon man, and vegetables, which the former could...place, these substances to the powerful digestion of the ox, permit the nourishment to store itself in the animal's body, in order in the end to gain it... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1865 - 490 pages
...food. The animals which live on plants occupy a mean position between carnivorous animals, in which we reckon man, and vegetables, which the former could...place, these substances to the powerful digestion of the ox, permit the nourishment to store itself in the animal's body, in order in the end to gain it... | |
 | John Timbs - 1869 - 280 pages
...food. The animals which live on plants occupy a mean position between carnivorous animals, in which we reckon man, and vegetables, which the former could...place, these substances to the powerful digestion of the ox, permit the nourishment to store itself in the animal's body, in order in the end to gain it... | |
 | William Robert Grove - 1872 - 640 pages
...animals which live on plants occupy a mean position between carnivorous animals, in •« hich we reokon man, and vegetables, which the former could not make...place, these substances to the powerful digestion of the ox, permit the nourishment to store itself in the animal's body, in order in the end to gain it... | |
 | Hermann Ludwig F. von Helmholtz - 1873 - 424 pages
...food. The animals which live on plants occupy a mean position between carnivorous animals, in which we reckon man, and vegetables, which the former could...place, these substances to the powerful digestion of the ox, permit the nourishment to store itself in the animal's body, in order in the end to gain it... | |
 | Hermann von Helmholtz - 1873 - 432 pages
...food. The animals which live on plants occupy a mean position between carnivorous animals, in which we reckon man, and vegetables, which the former could...place, these substances to the powerful digestion of the ox, permit the nourishment to store itself in the animal's body, in order in the end to gain it... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 482 pages
...food. The animals which live on plants occupy a mean position between carnivorous animals, in which we reckon man, and vegetables, which the former could...place, these substances to the powerful digestion of the ox, permit the nourishment to store itself in the animal's body, in order in the end to gain it... | |
 | William S. Knickerbocker - 1927 - 410 pages
...food. The animals which live on plants occupy a mean position between carnivorous animals, in which we reckon man, and vegetables, which the former could...place, these substances to the powerful digestion of the ox, permit the nourishment to store itself in the animal's body, in order in the end to gain it... | |
 | Hermann von Helmholtz - 1995 - 446 pages
...food. The animals which live on plants occupy a mean position between carnivorous animals, in which we reckon man, and vegetables, which the former could...place, these substances to the powerful digestion of the ox, permit the nourishment to store itself in the animal's body, in order in the end to gain it... | |
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The answer is, from the vegetable kingdom ; for only the material of plants, or the flesh of plant-eating animals, can be made use of for food. The animals which live on plants occupy a mean position between carnivorous animals, in which we reckon man,... 