| Erasmus Darwin - Science - 1800 - 676 pages
...flies require flefh for their food) and thofe of the ichneumon fly require infe&s for their food* \Vhat induces the bee who lives on honey to lay up vegetable...their own previous experience or obfervation, all the aftions of mankind muft be refolved into inftindt. 3* Ihe dormoufe con fumes but little of its food... | |
| Erasmus Darwin - 1818 - 616 pages
...maggots of large flies require flesh for their food, and those of the ichneumon fly require insects for their food. What induces the bee, who lives on...induces the butterfly to lay its eggs on leaves, when itself feeds on honey? What induces the other flies to seek a food for their progeny different from... | |
| Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1879 - 402 pages
...the previous caterpillar lives on vegetable leaves, while the maggots of large flies require flesh for their food. What induces the bee, who lives on...induces the butterfly to lay its eggs on leaves when itself feeds on honey ? . . . If these are not deductions from their own previous experience or observation,... | |
| James Hutchison Stirling - Evolution - 1894 - 392 pages
...can undo also the somewhat harder one that lies in the midst of these questions of Dr. Erasmus : " What induces the bee, who lives on honey, to lay up...induces the butterfly to lay its eggs on leaves, when itself feeds on honey ? What induces other flies to seek a food for their progeny different from what... | |
| James Hutchison Stirling - Categories (Philosophy) - 1903 - 172 pages
...only this, however, as quite sufficient in itself to throw wide a door to all due meditation : — "What induces the bee, who lives on honey, to lay...induces the butterfly to lay its eggs on leaves, when itself feeds on honey ? What induces other flies to seek a food for their progeny different from what... | |
| Samuel Butler - Epic poetry, Greek - 1924 - 460 pages
...leaves, while the 1 Dr. Darwin, Zoonomia, vol. i, p. 183, 1794. maggots of large flies require flesh for their food. What induces the bee, who lives on...induces the butterfly to lay its eggs on leaves when itself feeds on honey? . . . If these are not deductions from their own previous experience or observation,... | |
| Samuel Butler - Epic poetry, Greek - 1924 - 426 pages
...leaves, while the 1 Dr. Darwin, Zoonomia, vol. i, p. 183, 1794. maggots of large flies require flesh for their food. What induces the bee, who lives on...induces the butterfly to lay its eggs on leaves when itself feeds on honey? . . . If these are not deductions from their own previous experience or observation,... | |
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