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... move itself . They are far more superabundant and crucial than even those which support the belief in the existence of gravitation . Newton himself did not regard attraction as an essential property of mat- ter ; and it was long a ...
... move itself . They are far more superabundant and crucial than even those which support the belief in the existence of gravitation . Newton himself did not regard attraction as an essential property of mat- ter ; and it was long a ...
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... moves me as much as the Unseen Holy suggested before that picture . Will you follow me long enough to - day , my friends , to find out that this Madonna di San Sisto of Raphael , whose interior suggests an ineffable exterior , is a true ...
... moves me as much as the Unseen Holy suggested before that picture . Will you follow me long enough to - day , my friends , to find out that this Madonna di San Sisto of Raphael , whose interior suggests an ineffable exterior , is a true ...
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... you see ? Little germinal points arising in the centre , and enlarging . The bioplast seems to boil bioplasts from its centre . It moves . It divides itself here before our eyes [ illustrating on the blackboard ] . It throbs . 34 BIOLOGY .
... you see ? Little germinal points arising in the centre , and enlarging . The bioplast seems to boil bioplasts from its centre . It moves . It divides itself here before our eyes [ illustrating on the blackboard ] . It throbs . 34 BIOLOGY .
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... move- ment also . Once this bioplast was here . . It threw off formed material ; and that formed material flows away behind it as your thread flows from your spin- dle . It flows away here as what ? As an incipi- ent nerve . But here ...
... move- ment also . Once this bioplast was here . . It threw off formed material ; and that formed material flows away behind it as your thread flows from your spin- dle . It flows away here as what ? As an incipi- ent nerve . But here ...
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... move , however , without cell - wall or nucleus ; 17. Spins the threads of nerves , arteries , veins , bones , and all the mechanism of the system , by throw- ing off formed material ; 18. Weaves these threads into the infinity of co ...
... move , however , without cell - wall or nucleus ; 17. Spins the threads of nerves , arteries , veins , bones , and all the mechanism of the system , by throw- ing off formed material ; 18. Weaves these threads into the infinity of co ...
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action adequate cause affirm animal Applause Aristotle assert automatic arcs automatic nervous axioms Bain Bathybius Beale's biology bioplasts BOSTON MONDAY brain cell cell-theory cell-wall cerebral hemispheres consciousness Dana Darwin death definition of matter Divine doctrine Emerson ence ethereal body evolutionists existence eyes fact Ferrier fibre formed material Fredrika Bremer frog gentlemen German Häckel hemisphere Herbert Spencer Hermann Lotze human immortality inductive inert inertia influential arcs instinct latest LECTURE LECTURESHIP Lionel Beale living matter living tissues logical mass materialistic matter and mind mental microscope molecular motion muscle natural selection nerve nerve-arcs nervous mechanism not-living nucleus nutrient matter organism origin Origin of Species pantheism particles philosophy physical forces Physiology produce Professor Huxley propositions protoplasm religious science rower scientific scientific method side Sir William Hamilton soul species spontaneous structureless substance thing thought tion truth Tyndall Tyndall's Ulrici universe weave words