Life and Death concomitants of the Vegetal Faculties.
Those natural and vegetal powers are not commanded by will at all; for "who can add one cubit to his stature?
Necessary concomitants or affections of this vegetal faculty are life and his privation, death.
The last of these vegetal faculties is generation, which begets another by means of seed, like unto itself, to the perpetual preservation of the species.
Next in order is the sensible faculty, which is as far beyond the other in dignity, as a beast is preferred to a plant, having those vegetal powers included in it.
It is noteworthy that he sought to establish the identity of organic and inorganic matter by help of the facts of vegetal and animal nutrition.
Lucretius traces, in the fifth book of his poem, the progressive genesis of vegetaland animal forms out of the mother-earth.
Among vegetal remains were hazel and beech nuts, stones of the sloe and birdcherry; seeds of raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries; and carbonised masses of wheat.
Among the vegetal remains from Casale Zaffanella submitted to Professor Oreste Mattirolo in Turin, wheat and both the seeds and wood of the vine were recognised.
In this truth lies the whole mystery of vegetal and animal life as hitherto manifested on our globe, with the single exception of man whose crowning distinction it was to receive "a living soul.
Besides, these vegetal and animal forms had one difficulty to encounter which we shall not experience.
And this seems to have been the patristic idea, namely, that law and regularity, not arbitrary intervention, nor any specific act of creation, were what governed in the case of both vegetal and animal life.
For it would seem to be a law of vegetal growth that reproduction should begin in decomposition and decay.
There is probably in the vegetal bodies a continuous circulation of sap corresponding to the digestive circulating fluids of the alimentary canal.
So it is with the frail structure of vegetal and animal life if not properly supplied with nourishment from day to day.
Intestinal rootlets of the small intestines, likevegetal rootlets, demand a certain amount of normal fluid and solid substance, free from noxious gas.
It is well known that this charcoal possesses the singular property of completely absorbing the colour of almost any vegetal or animal solution, and of rendering quite limpid and colourless the water charged with it.
As green is the most general colour of vegetal nature and principal in foliage; so red, its harmonizing colour, with compounds of red, is most general and principal in flowers.
At present, perhaps, it is safer to choose vegetal charcoal for mixed tints, inasmuch as, although it shares the property of bleaching in a certain degree, it does not possess the same energy.
To mix with organic pigments, therefore, blue or lamp blacks should be substituted for those of ivory or bone; that is, vegetal charcoal should be used instead of animal.
The manganates, however, are decomposed by contact with organic matter; and hence the green would be liable to suffer from the vehicles employed, as well as by being compounded with animal or vegetal pigments.
Cassia Fistula is a native vegetal pigment, though it is more commonly employed as a medicinal drug.
It is a pure vegetal charcoal of fine texture, not quite so intense nor so transparent as the black made from ivory, but less brown in its pale tones.
Accordingly it has been adopted very wisely in nature as the common garb of the vegetal creation.
As the objects of vegetal and animal nature may be blackened through every degree of impurity by the action of fire, black substances more or less fitted for pigments abound.
Under the head of vegetal fibers, we also consider their uses of forest trees, since these are so closely related.
When this vegetal cell-formation continues for a long time, after the two primary germinal layers have been formed, it takes the name of the "after-segmentation.
It has arisen through the accumulation of a store of food-stuff at the vegetal pole, a "nutritive yelk" being thus formed in contrast to the "formative yelk.
While the blastula is being folded into a cup at the vegetal pole of its axis, the difference in the size of the blastodermic cells increases (Figure 1.
The vegetal pole of the vertical axis is just in the centre of the primitive mouth.
In consequence of this, the animal cells of the ectoderm are darker than the vegetal cells of the entoderm.
The animal cells produce the external, and the vegetal cells the internal, germinal layer.
While the protoplasm in the animal section of the ovum continues briskly to divide, multiplying the nuclei, the deutoplasm in the vegetal section remains more or less undivided; it is merely consumed as food by the forming cells.
From this important spot the inner germinal layer spreads all round on the inner surface of the outer layer, the cell-stratum of which forms the wall of the hollow sphere; the extension proceeds from the vegetal towards the animal pole.
Now that we have considered the external parts of the vertebrate and the animal organs, which mainly lie in the dorsal half, above the chorda, we turn to the vegetal organs, which lie for the most part in the ventral half, below the axial rod.
Nevertheless, the hyposomites of the vegetal half of the body are not less important than the episomites of the animal half.
The contractions of the active protoplasm, which effect this continual cleavage of the cells, meet a greater resistance in the lower vegetalhalf from the passive deutoplasm than in the upper animal half.
There were likewise fragments of green carbonate of copper and kaolin, a yellow ocher, and considerable vegetal matter mixed with the sand.
The dewfall on each side is extensive, and the vegetal growth which extends the full length of the water-ways and for thousands of miles in some cases, is most prolific.
In this steam environment grow forests of fern and fungus-like trees and rankvegetal growths which will in the course of time be preserved as coal for the races destined to inhabit this planet.
The mountains were tinted red from base to top, except where the moisture near the shores of the lake had stimulated a vegetal growth, whose green contrasted most harmoniously with the red of the soil.
Even the north and south Arctic regions, after their seasonal thaws blossom forth with vegetal growth, as astronomers on your Earth have observed.
This is specially clear with respect to the vegetal deposits interstratified with beds of glacial origin.
And, finally, there occur, over a wide belt bordering the so-called moraine hills of the second Glacial epoch, extensive intercalated beds of vegetal deposits.
In these profound treatises, which were too far in advance of their age to exert much influence at first, Goethe laid the philosophic foundations of comparative anatomy in both vegetal and animal worlds.
The method of evolution in the life history of the animal and vegetal kingdoms has been like the method of evolution in the life history of the individual.
A country so destitute of animal and vegetal life would not support large numbers, and the few who dwelt here gained but a precarious and scant subsistence.
Any accident that causes the vegetal covering to disappear, such as the tread of cattle near a drinking place or an enclosure, is enough to set aeolian erosion at work.
If one goes further east, to a moister district with a thicker vegetal carpet, the grains of sand no longer move at the surface of the ground, but the wind still carries fine particles of clay, which it bears to a great height.
The name "Pampa" chiefly means a vegetal growth, a prairie.
Coal accumulated in the presence of water; for it is only when thus protected from the air that vegetal matter is preserved.
It is known to be produced in some cases by the metamorphism of coal, which itself is formed of decomposed vegetal tissues.
Seams of graphite may therefore represent accumulations of vegetal matter such as seaweed.
Examined under the microscope even anthracite, or hard coal, is seen to contain carbonized vegetal tissues.
In that case we should expect to find it mixed with mud, while in fact it often contains no more ash than the vegetal matter would furnish from which it has been compressed.
Among common proofs of subsidence are roads and buildings and other works of man, and vegetal growths and deposits, such as forest grounds and peat beds, now submerged beneath the sea.
The mind in man acts the same as mind in the vegetal and lower animal kingdoms.
The vegetal substances comprise utensils and implements of all kinds.
Nature of feature: short oval knobs or longer conical knobs (the latter on only one vessel) apparently for the purpose of holding in place vegetal bindings which were sometimes wrapped around vessels at the lip.
Nature of feature: short oval pottery knobs apparently for the purpose of holding in place vegetal bindings which were sometimes wrapped around vessels at the lip.
Light is the most important of all the external agencies which influence the vegetal organism, and the sun's rays have been the most potent force in shaping the development of existent plant forms.
The number of species of vegetal organisms below this depth is extremely small.
Now, inorganic food is generally diffused in the waters, so that the vegetal feeders have no incentive to develop mobility.
In other words, we will be content to ask how the modern landscape obtained its general vegetal features.
The distinction of being the lowest known living organisms should, I think, be awarded to certain one-celled vegetal organisms which are very common in nature.
In its vegetal aspect, also, as we saw, the modern landscape was determined by the Pleistocene revolution.
Feeding on vegetal matter in the luscious swamps, and having their vast bulk lightened by their aquatic life, they soon attained the most formidable proportions.
Mr. Dorsey also obtained from several tribes the corresponding Indian names of about sixty vegetal products, specimens of which were brought to Washington for identification.
And such are the acts of the vegetal soul; wherefore Gregory of Nyssa (Nemesius, De Nat.
Consequently the acts of the vegetal soul are not subject to the command of reason.
Hence the very fact that the acts of the vegetal soul do not obey reason, shows that they rank lowest.
Much more, therefore, are the powers of the vegetal soul.
But the powers of the vegetal soul do not obey reason, as stated above (A.
Now no vital functions can be exercised except by an intrinsic principle, not even those of the vegetal soul, which are the lowest of vital functions.
Therefore all that is in man, even the powers of the vegetal soul, obey the command of reason.
The members do not move themselves, but are moved through the powers of the soul; of which powers, some are in closer contact with the reason than are the powers of the vegetal soul.
But natural love seems to pertain rather to the natural powers, which belong to the vegetal soul.
Objection 1: It would seem that the acts of the vegetal soul are subject to the command of reason.
Although vital functions are always from an intrinsic principle, yet an extrinsic agent can cooperate with them, even as external heat cooperates with the functions of the vegetal soul, that food may be more easily digested.
For the sensitive powers are of higher rank than the vegetal powers.
For it is evident that the members of the body are more distant from the reason, than the powers of the vegetal soul.
