Darwin's theory certainly gives to both some vastly remote common ancestor; but it does not maintain the metamorphosis of one into the other.
Some naturalists assert that we must not accept the metamorphosisof either sex as an established fact, except for the purpose of arrangement.
The metamorphosis takes place immediately on both sides, and each departs in the form which the enemy seemed to impose, but which really belonged to him.
Apollo, too, and Dionysus, and other deities possess this faculty of metamorphosis as an inheritance from a more barbarous age.
This metamorphosis depends on the will of the real Brahmans, who may, if they like, sell this right for several hundreds or thousands of cows.
In that moment of triumph a marvelous metamorphosis took place, and as his arm bound her to his side he beheld her transformed into a boy.
The metamorphosis seems almost as surprising as the magic changes worked by Aladdin's lamp.
We have seen, however, that after the act of metamorphosis they do grow a little, and I have reason to suspect that this is effected, as with other Cirripedes, by moulting.
In all members of the Thoracica, the metamorphosis seems to run a remarkably uniform course.
The whole course of the metamorphosis is very peculiar.
Introduction) after the metamorphosis in, the Lepadidae.
He thought he might observe it also during the metamorphosis of the tadpole into a frog, whilst the tail was being atrophied.
This weakening may be due to normal phenomena such as the metamorphosis of insects or tadpoles, when certain organs, as they weaken, become useless or inactive.
The nutrition of the latter takes place at the expense of the fatty substance which remains after the metamorphosis of the chrysalis into a moth.
The former was called by Goethe the centripetal or specifying tendency, the latter the centrifugal tendency, or the tendency to metamorphosis (p.
I will here quote a passage from the poem entitled, "The Metamorphosis of Animals" (1819).
At a later date a metamorphosis takes place in tritons, as in frogs.
Something similar to what he had here done for the metamorphosis of plants he then did for the Vertebrate animals, in his celebrated vertebral theory of the skull.
His idea of metamorphosis is almost synonymous with the theory of development.
A convenient type of insect undergoing a completemetamorphosis is any common moth (Fig.
An insect that shows some linkage between those having a truemetamorphosis and those having a partial metamorphosis is the aphis-lion (Micromus tasmaniae), though undergoing a true metamorphosis itself.
Metamorphosis is carried to a much higher state of perfection in the case of such insects as blowflies and houseflies (Fig.
A decided advance toward a metamorphosis is exhibited by insects known as thrips (Fig.
Surely no catastrophe less than death can account for such a metamorphosis as that wrought in Byng.
This is her account of his life: He is on the verge of fifty, and has recently undergone his metamorphosis into the clerical form.
Hence, to say that an agent which retards tissue metamorphosis is in any sense a food, is simply to pervert and misapply terms.
Not finding that alcohol possesses any direct alimentary value, the medical advocates of its use have been driven to the assumption that it is a kind of secondary food, in that it has the power to delay the metamorphosis of tissue.
No wonder the author 'is not clear' how it does this, and we are not clear how such delayed metamorphosis recuperates.
He then says: "To claim alcohol as a food because it delays the metamorphosis of tissue, is to claim that it in some way suspends the normal conduct of the laws of assimilation and nutrition, of waste and repair.
This metamorphosis of the enchantress into the woman in Armida, is the climax of the Gerusalemme.
Footnote 10: From the Fifth Satire in The Metamorphosis of Pygmalion's Image and Certain Satyres, by John Marston.
While he thought of this and of the whole metamorphosis he had undergone, he smiled and said, "I sleep and dream; but it is wonderful how one can dream so naturally, and know besides so exactly that it is but a dream.
If digestion were a thing to be trifled with, I might sup upon lobster, and the matter of life of the crustacean would undergo the same wonderful metamorphosis into humanity.
Having endeavored to show that the caterpillar is a later production than the young, wingless cockroach, with which geological facts harmonize, we have next to account for the origin of a metamorphosis in insects.
Now we conceive that wings formed in much the same way, and with no more disturbance, so to speak, to the insect's organization, appeared during a certain critical period in the metamorphosis of some early insect.
The whole subject of the metamorphosis of this beetle needs revision, but Fabre states that the larva, soon after entering the nest of its host, changes its skin and assumes a second larva form.
The stages ofmetamorphosis in the Diptera are no more suddenly acquired than in the bee or butterfly.
The resemblance is carried out in the form of the egg, the mode of growth of the embryo, and the metamorphosis of the insect after leaving its egg.
But few readers of our natural history text-books learn from their pages any definite facts regarding the affinities of these humble creatures, their organization and the singular metamorphosis a few have been known to pass through.
The knowledge of the fact that all animals pass through some sort of a metamorphosis is very recent in physiology.
No less remarkable is the metamorphosis of the caducibranchiate amphibia, passing through the true fish condition of the tadpole to the perfect air-breathing and four-footed animal, the frog.
It simply does not occur to him that the real problem is the realisation of the surplus value, the metamorphosis of commodities, in fact the 'changed form' of the surplus value.
