I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.
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We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.Asa Gray
Upon no one of these particular points has there been a completer change of view than upon the distinctness of the animal and vegetable kingdoms.
Asa Gray
The natural history of protoplasm enables me to proceed to other evidences of the substantial oneness of the two kingdoms of organic nature.
Asa Gray
Increased powers of investigation- microscopical and chemical- might be expected to discover them. This expectation has not been fulfilled.
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I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
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In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
Asa Gray
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