 Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to animal life in such a way that it is impossible to determine the exact line of demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should be. Thus, next after lifeless things in the upward...  Greek Biology and Medicine - Side 50af Henry Osborn Taylor - 1922 - 151 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Aristotle - 1910 - 528 sider
...determine the exact line of demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.3 Thus, next after lifeless things in the upward scale...devoid of life as compared with an animal, is endowed 10 with life as compared with other corporeal entities.4 Indeed, as we just remarked, there is observed... | |
 | Marshall Clagett - 2001 - 246 sider
...determine the exact line of demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie. Thus, next after lifeless things in the upward scale...from another as to its amount of apparent vitality. . . . Indeed, as we have just remarked, there is observed in plants a continuous scale of ascent towards... | |
 | Michael Shermer - 2002 - 448 sider
...determine the exact line of demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie. Thus, next after lifeless things in the upward scale...endowed with life as compared with other corporeal entities."37 This was no evolutionary model, however, as the scala ladder was static and species fixed... | |
 | John Avery - 2003 - 236 sider
...either the exact line of demarcation, or on which side of the line an intermediate form should lie. Thus, next after lifeless things in the upward scale comes the plant. Of plants, one will differ from another as to its apparent amount of vitality. In a word, the whole... | |
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