 | 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
...complexity of an organic being; but, on the hypothesis here advanced, this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm...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 before... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - 1897 - 396 pages
...being; but, on the hypothesis here advanced, this complexity is much increased. Each living crea- . ture must be looked at as a microcosm — a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, in- * conceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven." * The force of this concluding remark... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1909 - 104 pages
...and no more ache for ever from age or antecedents. } '*' An organic being,' writes Mr. Darwin, ' is a microcosm, a little universe, formed of a host of...self-propagating organisms inconceivably minute and numerous as the stars in Heaven.'/ As these myriads of smaller organisms are parts and processes of... | |
 | Joseph McFarland - 1910 - 472 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...selfpropagating organisms, inconceivably minute and numerous as the stars in heaven." In criticising this theory of pangenesis, Galton1 points out that... | |
 | Laura Annice Davis Calhoun - 1910 - 264 pages
...earth's vast, complex life — organic and inorganic. For, as Darwin concluded, "An organic being is a microcosm — a little universe — formed of a...self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute, and numerous as the stars of heaven." And, indeed, as imagined also by Democritus, Leucippus, Aristotle,... | |
 | Laura Annice Davis Calhoun - 1910 - 268 pages
...organization, adds a more concrete meaning to his well-known passage. "An organic being is a microcosm—a little universe —formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute, and numerous as the stars of heaven." Professor Watase says that in a restricted sense symbiosis means... | |
 | 1914 - 636 pages
...Darwin said of the entire organism may now be said of every cell. An organic being is a microsome — a little universe, formed of a host of selfpropagating organisms, inconceivably minute and numerous as the stars in heaven. v> THE DECBEASING POPULATION OP FKANCE BY PROFESSOR JAMES W. GARNER... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1914 - 952 pages
...Wright to pacify or chastize them with his vaccines. So that, as Darwin said : " 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 " — as we ourselves are but parts of life at large. The three main... | |
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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. 
