The Twentieth Century, Volume 21Nineteenth Century and After, 1887 |
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... kind , and a law for the free popular choice of representatives as against the privilege and monopoly of the rich . Women have been admitted to new public duties , which they have proved their perfect capacity to dis- charge , and their ...
... kind , and a law for the free popular choice of representatives as against the privilege and monopoly of the rich . Women have been admitted to new public duties , which they have proved their perfect capacity to dis- charge , and their ...
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... kind might be expected to arise within that section . And this is just what we find . Oceanic islands , for example , are well known to be extraordinarily rich in peculiar species ; and this can best be explained by considering that a ...
... kind might be expected to arise within that section . And this is just what we find . Oceanic islands , for example , are well known to be extraordinarily rich in peculiar species ; and this can best be explained by considering that a ...
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... kind occur in any of the other systems or parts of organisms , they are , as a rule , immediately extinguished by intercrossing . But whenever they happen to arise in the reproductive system in the way here suggested , they must tend to ...
... kind occur in any of the other systems or parts of organisms , they are , as a rule , immediately extinguished by intercrossing . But whenever they happen to arise in the reproductive system in the way here suggested , they must tend to ...
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... kind , for the sake of brevity I will not recapitulate answers already given in Nature , and in cases where different critics have urged the same objections I will consider the latter as they are presented most fully . Moreover , I will ...
... kind , for the sake of brevity I will not recapitulate answers already given in Nature , and in cases where different critics have urged the same objections I will consider the latter as they are presented most fully . Moreover , I will ...
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... kind with which natural selection can have had nothing whatever to do . ' I fully admit the truth of the statement ; and I presume that few naturalists would be prepared to deny that ' distinctions of specific value frequently have ...
... kind with which natural selection can have had nothing whatever to do . ' I fully admit the truth of the statement ; and I presume that few naturalists would be prepared to deny that ' distinctions of specific value frequently have ...
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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...
Page 794 - Owls move in a buoyant manner, as if lighter than the air ; they seem to want ballast. There is a peculiarity belonging to ravens that must draw the attention even of the most incurious — they spend all their leisure time in striking and cuffing each other on the wing in a kind of playful skirmish...
Page 14 - It is an inherent condition of human affairs that no intention, however sincere, of protecting the interests of others can make it safe or salutary to tie up their own hands. Still more obviously true is it that by their own hands only can any positive and durable improvement of their circumstances in life be worked out.
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?