 | Erasmus Darwin - 1801 - 602 pages
...As air and water are fupplied.to animals in fufficient profufion, the three great objects of defire, which have changed the forms of many animals by their exertions to gratify them, are thofe of luft, hunger, and fecurity. A great want of one part of the animal world, has confifted in... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1803 - 622 pages
...As air and water are fupplied to animals in fufficient profuCon, the three great objects of defire, which have changed the forms of many animals by their exertions to gratify them, arc thofe of luft, hunger, and fecuriry. A great *want of one part of the animal world has confilted... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1818 - 616 pages
...consequence of their desires and aversions, of their pleasures and their pains, or of irritations, or of associations; and many of these acquired forms...or propensities are transmitted to their posterity. See Sect. XXXI. 1. As air and water are supplied to animals in sufficient profusion, the three great... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1879 - 436 pages
...in consequence of their desires and aversions, of their pleasures and their pains, or of irritations or of associations; and many of these acquired forms...which have changed the forms of many animals by their desires to gratify them are those of lust, hunger, and security. A great want of one part of the animal... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1879 - 402 pages
...in consequence of their desires and aversions, of their pleasures and their pains, or of irritations or of associations ; and many of these acquired forms...propensities are transmitted to their posterity. " As air and watef"are supplied to animals in sufficient profusion, the three great objects of desire which have... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1879 - 956 pages
...in consequence of their desires and aversions, of their pleasures and their pains, or of irritation or of associations ; and many of these acquired forms...propensities are transmitted to their posterity." He also had a glimpse of the mode of action of sexual selection ; for, speaking of the spurs with which... | |
 | Ernst Ludwig Krause - 1879 - 230 pages
...in consequence of their " desires and aversions, of their pleasures and " pains, or of irritations, or of associations; " and many of these acquired forms or " propensities are transmitted to their pos" terity. "As air and water are supplied to animals " in sufficient profusion, the three great objects... | |
 | Ernst Krause - 1879 - 224 pages
...in consequence of their " desires and aversions, of their pleasures and " pains, or of irritations, or of associations; " and many of these acquired forms or " propensities are transmitted to their pos" terity. "As air and water are supplied to animals " in sufficient profusion, the three great objects... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 224 pages
...animals undergo perpetual transformations, which are in part produced by their own exertions ; . . . and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity. ... A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire of the exclusive possession... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1892 - 398 pages
...consequence of their desires and aversions, of their pleasures and their pains, or of irritations, or of associations ; and many of these acquired forms...animals by their exertions to gratify them, are those of lust, hunger, and security." " This idea of the gradual generation of all things seems to have been... | |
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Fifthly, from their first rudiment or primordium to the termination of their lives, all animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced by their own exertions in consequence of their desires and aversions, of their pleasures and... 
