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" Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent, since a part of the embryon-animal is, or was, a part of the parent, and therefore in strict language, cannot be said to... "
Zoonomia, Or, The Laws of Organic Life: In Three Parts - Page 376
by Erasmus Darwin - 1809 - 6 pages
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Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life, Volume 1

Erasmus Darwin - Science - 1800 - 676 pages
...pofleffor miferable even in heaven. I would apply this ingenious idea to the .generation or produ&ion of the embryon, or new animal, which partakes fo much...part of the embryon-animal is, or was, a part of the pa* rent; and therefore in ftii& language it cannot be faid to be entirely new at the time of its production...
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Zoonomia, Volume 1

Erasmus Darwin - 1818 - 616 pages
...generation or production of the embryon, or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of the parent. Owing to the imperfection of language...is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent; siuce apart of the embryon-animal is, or was, a part of th< parent; and therefore In strict language...
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Erasmus Darwin

Ernst Krause - Biologists - 1879 - 224 pages
...which partakes so " much of the form and propensities of the " parent." And he continues as follows : " Owing to the imperfection of language the " offspring...is in " truth a branch or elongation of the parent ; " since a part of the embry on-animal is, or " was, a part of the parent ; and therefore in " strict...
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Evolution, old and new; or, The theories of Buffon, dr. Erasmus Darwin, and ...

Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1879 - 436 pages
...production of the embryon or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of its parent. " Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but ia in truth a branch or elongation of the parent, since a part of the embryon-animal is, or was, a...
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Evolution, Old and New: Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, and ...

Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1879 - 402 pages
...production of the embryon or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of its parent. " Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, l>ut is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent, since a part of the embryon-animal is, or was,...
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Nature, Volume 21

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1880 - 668 pages
...-which partakes so much of the form and propensities of the parent! And he continues as follows : ' Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring...but is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent ; since a part of the embryon-animal is, or was, a part of the parent ; and therefore in strict language...
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Unconscious Memory

Samuel Butler - Evolution - 1880 - 338 pages
...which I quoted in " Evolution, Old and New," but may perhaps as well repeat it here. It runs — " Owing to the imperfection of language, the offspring...is, in truth, a branch or elongation of the parent, since a part of the embryon animal is or was a part of the parent, and, therefore, in strict language,...
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Nature, Volume 21

Sir Norman Lockyer - Science - 1880 - 1042 pages
...And he continues as follows : ' Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a neu> animal, but is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent ; since a part of the embryon-animal is, or was, a part of the parent ; and therefore in strict language...
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Evolution, old and new; or, The theories of Buffon, dr. Erasmus Darwin, and ...

Samuel Butler - 1882 - 488 pages
...production of the embryon or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of its parent. " Owing to the imperfection of language the...is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent, since a part of the embryon-animal is, or was, a part of the parent, and therefore in strict language,...
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Charles Darwin

Grant Allen - 1885 - 236 pages
...' Owing to the imperfection of language,' wrote the Lichfield doctor nearly a hundred years ago, ' the offspring is termed a new animal, but is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent, since a part of the embryon-animal is or was a part of the parent, and therefore may retain some of...
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