ArchebiosisAppleton, 1872 - Life |
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acid Actinophrys aggregate Algæ Amabæ ammonic tartrate Amoeba amoeboid amongst animal appearance assume Bacteria become blood bodies capable cells changes chlorophyll Ciliated Infusoria colloidal colour colourless complex contagious contained corpuscles crystalline crystals cyst decolourized Desmids diameter Diatoms diseases embryo encysted Euglena evolution existence fact fermentation filaments fission flagellum flask fluid forms Fungi fungus Fungus-germs germs globules gonidia gradually granular granules Gros heterogenetic increase influence infusion kind Leptothrix less Lichens living matter living things mass membrane ments microscopical minute mode of origin modes of growth modifications molecular molecules Monads motionless nature Nematoids novo observations occur organisms ovoid Oxytricha particles pellicle plants portions Pouchet present produced protoplasm reproduction Rotifers says seems seen segmentation similar solution species specimens spherical spores stages substance surface take place Tardigrades temperature tendency tion tissues Torula transformation turbidity undergo Vaucheria vegetal vesicles Vibriones Vorticella whilst zoospores
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Page 122 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 573 - As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive ; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected.
Page 53 - It is difficult to avoid associating the inertness of colloids with their high equivalents, particularly where the high number appears to be attained by the repetition of a smaller number. The inquiry suggests itself whether the colloid molecule may not be constituted by the grouping together of a number of smaller crystalloid molecules, and whether the basis of colloidality may not really be this composite character of the molecule.
Page 633 - ... his mental constitution may continue to advance and improve, till the world is again inhabited by a single nearly homogeneous race, no individual of which will be inferior to the noblest specimens of existing humanity.
Page 120 - The change from a diffused, imperceptible state, to a concentrated, perceptible state, is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion; and the change from a concentrated, perceptible state, to a diffused, imperceptible state, is an absorption of motion and concomitant disintegration of matter.
Page 95 - ... other. The forces exercised by each unit on the aggregate, and by the aggregate on each unit, must ever tend towards a balance. If nothing prevents, the units will mould the aggregate into a form in equilibrium with their pre-existing polarities. If contrariwise, the aggregate is made by incident actions to take a new form, its forces must tend to re-mould the units into harmony with this new form ; and to. say that the physiological units are in any degree so...
Page 98 - Throughout the process of evolution, the two kinds of units, mainly agreeing in their polarities and in the form which they tend to build themselves into, but having minor differences, work in unison to produce an organism of the species from which they were derived, but work in antagonism to produce copies of their respective parent-organisms. And hence ultimately results, an organism in which traits of the one are mixed with traits of the other.
Page 583 - A purposive route of development and change, of correlation and interdependence, manifesting intelligent Will, is as determinable in the succession of races as in the development and organization of the individual. Generations do not vary accidentally, in any and every direction ; but in preordained, definite, and correlated courses.
Page 24 - ... they are ; and that in each organism, the physiological units produced by this further compounding of highly compound atoms, have a more or less distinctive character. We must conclude that in each case, some slight difference of composition in these units, leading to some slight difference in their mutual play of forces, produces a difference in the form which the aggregate of them assumes.
Page xciii - The range of variation is so great among Foraminifera as to include not merely the differential characters which systematists proceeding upon the ordinary methods have accounted specific, but also those upon which the greater part of the genera of this group have been founded, and even in some instances those of its orders.