 | 1902 - 200 pages
...rudimentary and aborted organs, etc., will cease to be metaphorical and will have a plain signification. When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has... | |
 | Harris Hawthorne Wilder - 1909 - 618 pages
...found. This would seem a favorable locality from which to expect results. CHAPTER VI THE MUSCULAR SYSTEM "When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly beyond his comprehension ; when we regard every production of nature as one which... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1909 - 584 pages
...rudimentary and aborted organs, &c., will cease to be metaphorical, and will have a plain signification. When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has... | |
 | Edward Stuart Russell - 1916 - 420 pages
...threw upon all biology! " When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship as something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we...every production of Nature as one which has had a long history; when we contemplate every complex structure and instinct as the summing-up of many contrivances,... | |
 | Edward Stuart Russell - 1916 - 414 pages
...the achievements of its whole ancestral line. What a light this conception threw upon all biology ! " When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship as something wholly beyond his comprehension ; when we regard every production of Nature as one which... | |
 | Charles Stuart Gager - 1916 - 670 pages
...that, in the light of evolution, all phases of natural science possess more interest and more grandeur. "When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has... | |
 | Francis Sydney Marvin - 1919 - 372 pages
...When we no longer look ', he tells us, in one of the concluding paragraphs of his most famous book, ' at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly beyond his comprehension ; when we regard every production of Nature as one which... | |
 | Charles Stuart Gager - 1920 - 292 pages
...that, in the light of evolution, all phases of natural science possess more interest and more grandeur. "When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has... | |
 | Joshua Lawrence Eason, Maurice Harley Weseen - 1921 - 472 pages
...that, in the light of evolution, all phases of natural science possess more interest and more grandeur. "When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has... | |
 | John Lord - 1921 - 968 pages
...etc. — would cease to be metaphorical, and would have a plain signification. " When,' he wrote, " we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has... | |
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When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has had a long history... 
