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
It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.
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
The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
Asa Gray
We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.
Asa Gray
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