Empedocles tries to explain the genesis of organic beings, and, according to Lange, anticipates the idea of Darwin that adaptations abound, because it is their nature to perpetuate themselves.
True, mathematical infinites are in some respects different from metaphysical infinites; but it is the former that belong to this argument, since the supposed infinite succession of organic beings forms a mathematical series.
If in these passages they have the latter meaning, then they simply teach that the deluge destroyed the natural life of organic beings.
This circumstance probably has a close connection with the scarcity oforganic beings in that part of the ocean.
The interesting problem which underlies Mr. Darwin's theories is the answer to the question: How did the different species of organic beings on the earth originate?
Going still farther back on the temporal and ideal scale of organic beings, we arrive at another point, which natural science no longer can explain, and that is the origin of sensation and of consciousness.
This fact it is said points to propinquity of descent, "which is the only known cause of the similarity of organic beings.
By classification is meant an arrangement of organic beings in some systematic manner, according to attributes which they have in common, and which may form the principle of a division into different classes or families.
We must therefore consider it as counting for nothing, in opposition to any other hypothesis respecting the origin of organic beings.
There seems to be no more design in the variability of organic beings, and in the action of natural selection, than in the course which the wind blows.
This conclusion is not necessarily opposed to that at which we have just arrived, namely, that lesser changes of other kinds are advantageous to organic beings.
The power of Selection, whether exercised by man, or brought into play under nature through the struggle for existence and the consequent survival of the fittest, absolutely depends on the variability of organic beings.
This subject bears indirectly on two or three points connected with the modification of organic beings.
The method of the perpetuation of organic beings is of two kinds,--the asexual and the sexual.
These are the processes by which the perpetuation of organic beings is secured.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "organic beings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
