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!"   anvd [Please select]

But forever to battle against a succession of never-ending irritations, always to encounter the friction of antagonistic aims and ideals--it was maddening.   anvd [Please select]

But the kindness of those they met easily offset such petty irritations as stubborn horses and slow coaches.   anvd [Please select]

How sweet it is, and how good, in spite of annoyances, husbands, debts, relations, scandal-mongers, sufferings, and irritations.   anvd [Please select]

This tumor is often found in places exposed to traumatisms and at seats of scars, or of irritations from pressure and inflammation.   anvd [Please select]

Nor, indeed, could Canning himself, confident by the ease with which his love had appeared to put down all personal irritations.   anvd [Please select]

Lyons, unaffected by irritations resulting from the _Trent_, showed the frame of mind of a "determined neutral," as he was fond of describing himself.   anvd [Please select]

It was a period of many minor irritations, arising out of the blockade, inflicted by America on British interests, but to these Russell paid little attention except to enter formal protests.   anvd [Please select]