The Philosophy of Instinct and ReasonAdam and Charles Black, 1837 - 316 pages |
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abdominal analogy animal kingdom appear arise become birds body brain brutes called cause cerebellum cerebro-spinal axis cerebrum circumstances connected consciousness corpora striata corpus callosum crura degree distinct doctrine effect encephalic encephalon evidence existence external faculties fibres filaments fishes fornix fourth ventricle functions ganglia ganglionic system immortality impressions individual inferior insects instinctive acts irritation kind less Lord Brougham lower animals lungs mammals matter medulla oblongata membrane ment mind motions motor power muscles muscular Natural Theology nature nervous centre nervous system nest observed optic thalami optic tubercles organ origin pair passion phenomena phrenology physiology pineal gland plants Plate plexus pneumo-gastric portion possessed posterior principle racter rational reason referred remarkable reptiles respiration restiform bodies seat sensation sensibility shew side skull soul spinal chord stimulus stomach substance supposed surface system of nerves thalami thing third ventricle thought tion tribes ventricle vermiform process vertebrate viscera
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Page 191 - For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Page 179 - Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.
Page 149 - Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry, The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ! The busy flies disturb the kine ; Low o'er the grass the swallow wings, The cricket, too, how sharp he sings ! Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits wiping o'er her whiskered jaws...
Page 154 - Great wits to madness sure are near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Page 184 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, And meted out heaven with the span, And comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, God's incomparableness And weighed the mountains in scales, And the hills in a balance?
Page 150 - Quits mutton-bones on grass to feast ; And see yon rooks, how odd their flight, They imitate the gliding kite, And seem precipitate to fall, As if they felt the piercing ball. Twill surely rain, I see with sorrow, Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow.
Page 172 - ... the winter, and soon after Christmas began to moult, which they got through without any difficulty, and lived three or four years, regularly moulting every year at the usual time. On the renewal of their feathers it appeared that their tails were forked exactly the same as in those birds which return hither in the spring, and in every respect their appearance was the same.
Page 149 - The hollow winds begin to blow : The clouds look black, the glass is low ; The soot falls down, the spaniels sleep ; And spiders from their cobwebs peep. Last night the sun went pale to bed, The Moon in halos hid her head ; The boding shepherd heaves a sigh, For see ! a rainbow spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel.
Page 148 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 148 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.