The essence of his views is contained in the following passage, which he follows up with the conclusion "that one and the same kind of living filaments is and has been the cause of all organic life": "Would it be too bold to imagine that, in the great length of time since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind, - would it be too bold to imagine that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which the great First Cause endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions and associations, and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down these improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end!" [Please select]
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After the _Phytozoa_ come the _Protozoa_, or first forms in which animality is distinctly recognised. [Please select]
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Even in the higher ranks of animality, examples of similar mental obfuscation are not lacking. [Please select]
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] Even in the higher ranks of animality, examples of similar mental obfuscation are not lacking. [Please select]
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The animal man, while retaining much of his animality, has evolved from it higher faculties and attributes, while our four-footed kindred have not thus progressed. [Please select]
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CARTER, "Notes on the species, structure, and animality of the Freshwater Sponges in the tanks of Bombay (Genus _Spongilla_)," Trans. [Please select]
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