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... ANIMALS MENTALLY HAPPY ? By B. Carlill FRENCH PENAL COLONIES . By Major Arthur Griffiths NEWNHAM COLLEGE FROM WITHIN . By Miss Eva Knatchbull- 683 702 719 · 726 • 742 · 771 • 775 781 792 • 800 · Carlill 804 825 Hugessen • 843 A BEGGAR ...
... ANIMALS MENTALLY HAPPY ? By B. Carlill FRENCH PENAL COLONIES . By Major Arthur Griffiths NEWNHAM COLLEGE FROM WITHIN . By Miss Eva Knatchbull- 683 702 719 · 726 • 742 · 771 • 775 781 792 • 800 · Carlill 804 825 Hugessen • 843 A BEGGAR ...
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... ANIMALS MENTALLY HAPPY ? By B. Carlill 804 FRENCH PENAL COLONIES . By Major Arthur Griffiths 825 NEWNHAM COLLEGE FROM WITHIN . By Miss Eva Knatchbull- Hugessen 843 · A BEGGAR - POET . By Thomas Woolner 857 • COMTE'S ATHEISM . By the ...
... ANIMALS MENTALLY HAPPY ? By B. Carlill 804 FRENCH PENAL COLONIES . By Major Arthur Griffiths 825 NEWNHAM COLLEGE FROM WITHIN . By Miss Eva Knatchbull- Hugessen 843 · A BEGGAR - POET . By Thomas Woolner 857 • COMTE'S ATHEISM . By the ...
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... animals ; and probably , if we had adequate means of observing this point , we should find that there is no one variation more common . But , of course , whenever it arises - whether as a result of changed conditions of life , or , as ...
... animals ; and probably , if we had adequate means of observing this point , we should find that there is no one variation more common . But , of course , whenever it arises - whether as a result of changed conditions of life , or , as ...
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... animals , more especially those recently made by Professor Broca , that in the earlier editions of my ' Origin of Species ' I perhaps attributed too much to the action of natural selection , or the survival of the fittest . I have ...
... animals , more especially those recently made by Professor Broca , that in the earlier editions of my ' Origin of Species ' I perhaps attributed too much to the action of natural selection , or the survival of the fittest . I have ...
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... animals , are largely reared more or less expressly for the purpose of obtaining extreme differences of colour ; yet nearly all the resulting varieties are notoriously fertile . 4. In the case of natural species , it often happens that ...
... animals , are largely reared more or less expressly for the purpose of obtaining extreme differences of colour ; yet nearly all the resulting varieties are notoriously fertile . 4. In the case of natural species , it often happens that ...
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Page 654 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain: his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow; The man be more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble...
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Page 274 - The eager spirit has darted from my hold, And, with the intemperate energy of love, Flies to the dear feet of Emmanuel; But, ere it reach them, the keen sanctity, Which with its effluence, like a glory, clothes And circles round the Crucified, has seized, And scorch'd, and shrivell'd it; and now it lies Passive and still before the awful Throne.
Page 406 - For doating on her beauty, though her death Shall be revenged after no common action. Does the silkworm expend her yellow labours For thee? For thee does she undo herself? Are lordships sold to maintain ladyships For the poor benefit of a bewildering minute?