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Example sentences for "living beings"

  • But, for those who hold the doctrine of evolution, all the Catholic verities about the creation of living beings must be no less false.

  • From purely morphological investigations, Turpin and Schwann, as we have seen, arrived at the notion of the fundamental unity of structure of living beings.

  • I have now to show that, in living beings, while the characters of the first and fundamental beauty, that of inanimate beings, are still partially continued, new characteristics are added to them.

  • The pointing out these elements, and others which are superadded, in living beings; and the errors of Allison on this subject.

  • On this series of groups, and the succession of living beings, Sir.

  • It can only be filled by hypotheses, based upon the embryology of those animals which, in their embryonic development, repeat the inferior forms from which they are derived, thus reflecting the general evolution of living beings.

  • In the Essais optimistes he studied first of all the phenomena of old age in the different grades of the scale of living beings, of which he compared the life duration.

  • The evolution of these layers in Vertebrates was well known, but very little so in Invertebrates, though it is only through the development of inferior forms that the origin and general evolution of living beings can be elucidated.

  • Unquestionably, all living beings are organized on one grand plan, and the higher forms of living beings, in the process of their growth, successively pass through the lower organized forms.

  • Such is the economy of living beings, that the very actions which are subservient to their preservation, tend to exhaust and destroy them.

  • Indeed history relates that such was the case, and has embalmed for us the speculations upon the origin of living beings, which were among the earliest products of the dawning intellectual activity of man.

  • In other words, there has been a regular succession of living beings, each younger set, being in a very broad and general sense, somewhat more like those which now live.

  • A civilisation which allows itself to inflict death and torture on living beings can be only a barbarous civilisation.

  • Now, the death-knell of science will have sounded when savants are prevented from pursuing their investigations on living beings.

  • To deny the difference in rank of living beings is to deny evidence.

  • This number, which seems very considerable, is in reality very small, if we put it against the enormous number of living beings.

  • In general it is true that, the more we learn of the characters and histories of living beings, the more importance we attach to nature or birth and the less to nurture or environment, vastly important though the latter be.

  • Many years ago Herbert Spencer protested that we must acquaint ourselves with the laws of life, since these underlie all the activities of living beings.

  • In his discussion of the characters of living beings, he spoke of the milieu environnant.

  • Some geologists are of opinion that the waters impregnated with this oxide were prejudicial to living beings, others that strata permeated with this oxide would not preserve such fossil remains.

  • Their origin, therefore, may have been purely chemical, antecedent to the creation of living beings, and probably coeval with the birth of the world itself.

  • To these we must add a fifth: the purposiveness of the actions of living beings, as of the machines which they make or select.

  • He then adds his proofs of the occurrence of revolutions before the existence of living beings.

  • First Part: Progress in structure of living beings in proportion as circumstances favor them.

  • According to the first of these hypotheses, living beings, such as now exist, have existed from all eternity upon this earth.

  • Enough has, perhaps, been said to prove the existence of a general uniformity in the character of the protoplasm, or physical basis, of life, in whatever group of living beings it may be studied.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain phases; common object; excellent example; line trench; living beings; living bodies; living conditions; living creature; living creatures; living death; living faith; living organisms; living persons; living plants; living room; living rooms; living things; living world; mental deficiency; moderate oven; other universities; pleasant evening; stern tone; until about; various times; vingt ans