Unthinkable monstrosities of the origin of gods and lands and men are told with the same simplicity as the unquestionable facts of historic times.
The mythology and the records of the Ko-ji-ki and the Nihongi are far apart from all our Western legends and ideals of the early world, and in great part seem like monstrosities of fantastic speculation.
Geoffroy St. Hilaire's experiments show that unnatural treatment of the embryo causes monstrosities; and monstrosities cannot be separated by any clear line of distinction from mere variations.
It is commonly assumed, perhaps from monstrosities often affecting the embryos at a very early period, that slight variations necessarily appear at an equally early period.
There can be religious monstrosities and misshapen, but they must be naturally produced.
The church must accept the truths of the present, must admit the demonstrations of science, or take its place in the mental museums with the fossils and monstrosities of the past.
All day they journeyed through its savage interstices and struggled with its monstrosities of trap and sandstone.
Above this coliseum of monstrosities rose a long line of sharp, jagged needles, like a vast chevaux-de-frise, forbidding escape.
In some countries the exhibition of monstrosities is forbidden because of the supposed danger of maternal impression.
There are some cases of monstrosities with closed, adherent eyelids and absence of eyes.
In the same manner artificialmonstrosities have been manufactured solely for gain's sake.
Monstrosities have attracted notice from the earliest time, and many of the ancient philosophers made references to them.
Variations often pass into, and cannot be distinguished from, monstrosities; and monstrosities are of little significance for our purpose.
All day these monstrosities run out of the city followed by a black-painted tramcar for the mourners.
It is however a singular fact that some of the monstrositiesor variations are not inherited; for Sir R.
Now these monstrosities may be said to be directly caused by such unnatural conditions, but the modifications thus induced are not of a definite nature.
In some cases we find correlation without being able even to conjecture what is the nature of the connexion, as with various correlated monstrosities and diseases.
Other monstrosities seem to have begun in too close breeding, by which the powers of symmetrical development are impaired, just as the procreative power weakens under continuous breeding from the closest blood relations.
Surely she must have been under the influence of some of the German monstrosities that were so much in vogue, about the time she wrote, for even Juvenal would scarcely have imagined anything worse, as the subject of his satire.
The most agreeable monstrositiesimaginable were crawling along the grey old stones.
Through the first days and weeks of birth many of the children died on their own, and some of the women, seeing the monstrosities that they bore from the ArchBishop, had been shocked into eerie cataleptic states of being.
Great metal monstrosities that shrieked when they flew, and that were able to carry countless numbers of people to amy place in the whole world.
Among domesticated speciesmonstrosities are not infrequent, and sometimes, as in the goldfish, these have been perpetuated to become distinct breeds or races.
Monstrosities are rare among fishes in a state of nature.
It deals with all sorts of monstrosities which are to be met with in living beings, and more especially in animals.
After long meditation and the rejection of the hybrid monstrosities with which the nation was menaced, an obelisk is at last decided upon.
That is, I think, the first great principle; and attention to it would rid us for ever of the danger of the recurrence of those monstrosities that have brought the very name of "fashion" into contempt.
Other monstrosities were described and figured by Bremser and Creplin.
There are certainmonstrosities that sometimes occur in connection with the hand, such as hexadactylism and polydactylism, or hands with six or more fingers; or else hands with less than five fingers--syndactylism.
It is commonly assumed, perhaps from monstrosities affecting the embryo at a very early period, that slight variations or individual differences necessarily appear at an equally early period.
Under domestication monstrosities sometimes occur which resemble normal structures in widely different animals.
Our own architectural monstrosities and our Babels of machinery have been brought into existence by vast integrations of industrial capital.
Scientists and physicians are coming to recognize the fact that fears and frights do not in any way act as causes in the production of monstrosities and deformities.
I did not write without going pretty carefully into all the cases of normal structure in animals resembling monstrosities which appear per saltus.
With respect to advancement or retrogression in organisation in monstrosities of the Compositae, etc.
I end my discussion by doubting, because all cases of monstrosities which resemble normal structures which I could find were not in allied groups.
Although I fully agree that no definition can be drawn between monstrosities and slight variations (such as my theory requires), yet I suspect there is some distinction.
England was not ahead of France and Germany in the fifteenth century; and if Deventer school in 1475 was fed upon the monstrosities we have seen, it is not likely that Winchester and Eton had any better fare.
Even the Greeks were obliged to invent verbs to designate the monstrosities practiced by the Lesbian and Phoenician women.
No English words can picture the monstrosities which are calmly narrated in the pages of Petronius and Martial.
The chariot races and the monstrosities we can get elsewhere, but the octogenarian showman was unique.
I went through scores of booths, where curiosities and monstrosities of all kinds were exhibited, and was able to make some purchases and engagements for the American Museum.
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