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VI. Divine Proofs of the Dignity of Learning
(1) First, therefore, let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, wh...
V. Other Errors of Learned Men which mar the Progress and Credit of Learning
(1) The first of these is the extreme affecting of two extremities: the one antiquity, the other ...
IV. How the follies of Learned Men have dishonoured Learning
(1) Now I proceed to those errors and vanities which have intervened amongst the studies themselv...
III. Pretended discredits to Learning by learned men
(1) Now therefore we come to that third sort of discredit or diminution of credit that groweth un...
II. Objections of Politicians
(1) And as for the disgraces which learning receiveth from politics, they be of this nature: that...
I. Of Cavils against Learning
(1) In the entrance to the former of these—to clear the way and, as it were, to make silence, to ...
Recapitulation and Conclusion
As this whole volume is one long argument, it may be convenient to the reader to have the leading...
On the Nature of the Affinities Connecting Organic Beings.
As the modified descendants of dominant species, belonging to the larger genera, tend to inherit ...
Analogical Resemblances.
We can understand why a species or a group of species may depart from its allies, in several of i...
Summary.
In this chapter I have attempted to show that the arrangement of all organic beings throughout al...
Rudimentary, Atrophied, and Aborted Organs.
Organs or parts in this strange condition, bearing the plain stamp of inutility, are extremely co...
Development and Embryology.
This is one of the most important subjects in the whole round of natural history. The metamorphos...
Morphology.
We have seen that the members of the same class, independently of their habits of life, resemble ...
Classification.
From the most remote period in the history of the world organic beings have been found to resembl...
Summary of the last and present Chapters.
In these chapters I have endeavoured to show that if we make due allowance for our ignorance of t...
On the Relation of the Inhabitants of Islands to those of the nearest Mainland.
The most striking and important fact for us is the affinity of the species which inhabit islands ...
Absence of Batrachians and Terrestrial Mammals on Oceanic Islands.
With respect to the absence of whole orders of animals on oceanic islands, Bory St. Vincent long ...
On the Inhabitants of Oceanic Islands.
We now come to the last of the three classes of facts, which I have selected as presenting the gr...
Fresh-water Productions
As lakes and river-systems are separated from each other by barriers of land, it might have been ...
Alternate Glacial Periods in the North and South.
But we must return to our more immediate subject. I am convinced that Forbes's view may be largel...