The Evolution of Man Being the Lowell Lectures Delivered At Boston Mass Apr
The Evolution of Man Being the Lowell Lectures Delivered At Boston Mass Apr
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and the persistent types just named may represent in their several directions the natural limits of possible modification. No further modification of a radical kind, that is to say, could in these in- stances be introduced without detriment to practical efficiency. These terminal forms thus mark a normal maturity ; they represent the ends of the twigs of the tree of life.
TERMINAL POINTS.
Now consider the significance of that fact. Nature is not an interminable succession. It is not always a be...com- Gierminal points. Lis ing. Sometimes things arrive. The Lamp-shells have arrived : they are a part of the permanent furniture of the world ; along that particular line there will probably never be anything higher. The Star-fishes also have arrived ; and the Sea-urchins ; and the Nautilus, and the Bony Fishes, and the Tapir, and possibly the Horses — all these are highly divergent forms which have run out the length of their tether and can go no further. When the plan of the world was made, to speak teleologically, these types of life were assigned their place and limit, and there they have remained.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
and the persistent types just named may represent in their several directions the natural limits of possible modification. No further modification of a radical kind, that is to say, could in these in- stances be introduced without detriment to practical efficiency. These terminal forms thus mark a normal maturity ; they represent the ends of the twigs of the tree of life.
TERMINAL POINTS.
Now consider the significance of that fact. Nature is not an interminable succession. It is not always a be...com- Gierminal points. Lis ing. Sometimes things arrive. The Lamp-shells have arrived : they are a part of the permanent furniture of the world ; along that particular line there will probably never be anything higher. The Star-fishes also have arrived ; and the Sea-urchins ; and the Nautilus, and the Bony Fishes, and the Tapir, and possibly the Horses — all these are highly divergent forms which have run out the length of their tether and can go no further. When the plan of the world was made, to speak teleologically, these types of life were assigned their place and limit, and there they have remained.
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