Category: Science - Biology
The publication of the present work on _The Wonders of Life_ has been occasioned by the success of _The Riddle of the Universe_, which I wrote five years ago. Within a few months of the issue of this study of the monistic philosophy, in the autumn of 1899, ten thousand copies...
Reproduction by division is by far the most common of all forms of propagation. It is the normal form of monogony, not only in many of the protists, but also in the tissue-cells...
6. chapter xvi. of the _Riddle_). It seems that the hereditary biastowards mysticism and superstition is not yet eliminated even from the educated mind of our time. It is to be explained phylogenetically by inheritance from prehistoric barbaria...
4. chapter x.) and the resulting growth. When the latter passes a certainstage, the homogeneous globule splits into two halves (like a drop of quicksilver when it falls). This simplest form of reproduction is shared by the chromacea (and the cognate...
2. chapter I endeavored to show that they may all be reduced to onefinal "problem of substance," or one great "riddle of the universe." The general formulation of this problem is effected by blending the two chief cosmic laws--the chemical law...
3. chapter vi. of the _Riddle_. Romanes suffered a good deal from illnessand grief at the loss of friends in his last years. In this condition of extreme depression and melancholy he fell under mystic influences which promised him rest and hope by be...
5. chapter vi.), partly to the perennial conflict between his scientificbias towards a mechanical explanation of this world and his religious craving (an outcome of heredity and education) and mystic belief in a life beyond. This culminates in the d...
1. CHAPTER XXThe publication of the present work on _The Wonders of Life_ has been occasioned by the success of _The Riddle of the Universe_, which I wrote five years ago. Within a few month...