 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1860 - 594 pages
...been advanced as a beautiful adaptation for aiding parturition, and no doubt they facilitate, or may be indispensable for this act ¿ but as sutures occur...from a broken egg, we may infer that this structure baa arisen from the laws of growth, and has been taken advantage of in the parturition of the higher... | |
 | American essays - 1860 - 794 pages
...no doubt they facilitate or may be iadisutijMrih. far tbss act ; but as sutures occur in the sknlb of young birds and reptiles, which have only to escape...a broken egg, we may infer that this structure has aréen from the laws of growth, and has been taken adTantage of in the parturition of the higher animals."... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1866 - 668 pages
...been advanced as a beautiful adaptation for aiding parturition, and no doubt they facilitate, or may be indispensable for this act; but as sutures occur...advantage of in the parturition of the higher animals. We are profoundly ignorant of the causes producing slight and unimportant variations; and we are immediately... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...advanced as :v beautiful adaptation for aiding parturition, and no doubt they facilitate, or may bo indispensable for this act; but as sutures occur in the skulls of young birds and reptiles, which havo only to escape from a broken egg, we may infer that this structure has arisen from the laws of... | |
 | Asa Gray - History - 1876 - 408 pages
...aiding parturition, and no doubt they facilitate or may be indispensable for this act ; but as sntures occur in the skulls of young birds and reptiles, which...advantage of in the parturition of the higher animals." In the other place, Darwin is contemplating the patent fact that " perfection here below " is relative,... | |
 | Asa Gray - Evolution (Biology) - 1877 - 418 pages
...been advanced as a beautiful adaptation for aiding parturition, and no doubt they facilitate or may be indispensable for this act; but as sutures occur...advantage of in the parturition of the higher animals." All this, simply taken, is beyond cavil, unless the attempt to explain scientifically how any designed... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1882 - 492 pages
...been advanced as a beautiful adaptation for aiding parturition, and no doubt they facilitate, or may be indispensable for this act; but as sutures occur...advantage of in the parturition of the higher animals. ' \Vc are profoundly ignorant of the cause of each slight variation or individual difference ; and... | |
 | Mary Everest Boole - Symbolism - 1884 - 278 pages
...been advanced as a beautiful adaptation for aiding parturition, and no doubt they facilitate or may be indispensable for this act; but as sutures occur...taken advantage of in the parturition of the higher species." "... How cautious we should be in concluding that the most different habits of life could... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1889 - 446 pages
...been advanced as a beautiful adaptation for aiding parturition, and no doubt they facilitate, or may be indispensable for this act; but as sutures occur...advantage of in the parturition of the higher animals. We are profoundly ignorant of the cause of each slight variation or individual difference; and we are... | |
 | Asa Gray - Evolution - 1889 - 422 pages
...been advanced as a beautiful adaptation for aiding parturition, and no doubt they facilitate or may be indispensable for this act; but as sutures occur...advantage of in the parturition of the higher animals." DARWIN AND HIS REVIEWERS. 141 All this, simply taken, is beyond cavil, unless the attempt to explain... | |
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be indispensable for this act ; but as sutures occur in the skulls of young birds and reptiles, which have only to escape from a broken egg, we may infer that this structure has arisen from the laws of growth, and has been taken advantage of in the parturition... 
