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Evolutionist at Large
Evolutionist at Large
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Evolutionist at Large
Evolutionist at Large
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The Evolutionist at Large By Grant Allen Mr. Allen finds illustrations of the theory of evolution in common things of every-day occurrence. 'Sitting on this little rounded boss of gneiss beside the path which cuts obliquely through the meadow, I am engaged in watching a brigade of ants out on foraging duty, and intent on securing for the nest three whole segments of a deceased earthworm. They look for all the world like those busy companies one sees in the Egyptian wall-paintings, dragging home…
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  • Autorius: Grant Allen
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  • Metai: 2014
  • Puslapiai: 108
  • ISBN-10: 177658029X
  • ISBN-13: 9781776580293
  • Formatas: ACSM ?
  • Kalba: Anglų

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The Evolutionist at Large By Grant Allen Mr. Allen finds illustrations of the theory of evolution in common things of every-day occurrence. 'Sitting on this little rounded boss of gneiss beside the path which cuts obliquely through the meadow, I am engaged in watching a brigade of ants out on foraging duty, and intent on securing for the nest three whole segments of a deceased earthworm. They look for all the world like those busy companies one sees in the Egyptian wall-paintings, dragging home a huge granite colossus by sheer force of bone and sinew. Every muscle in their tiny bodies is strained to the utmost as they prise themselves laboriously against the great boulders which strew the path, and which are known to our Brobdingnagian intelligence as grains of sand. Besides the workers themselves, a whole battalion of stragglers runs to and fro upon the broad line which leads to the head-quarters of the community. The province of these stragglers, who seem so busy doing nothing, probably consists in keeping communications open, and encouraging the sturdy pullers by occasional relays of fresh workmen. I often wish that I could for a while get inside those tiny brains, and see, or rather smell, the world as ants do. For there can be little doubt that to these brave little carnivores here the universe is chiefly known as a collective bundle of odours, simultaneous or consecutive. As our world is mainly a world of visible objects, theirs, I believe, is mainly a world of olfactible things'.

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These little Essays first appeared in the columns of the 'pall Mall Gazette, ' and I have to thank the Editor for his kind and courteous permission to republish them here. They were written in almost every case exactly under the circumstances which they describe, so that they form the record of a single summer's stray thoughts on Nature from an easy-going, half-scientific, half aesthetic standpoint. Some of them were made up in Dorsetshire during early Spring; some were suggested among the Welsh hills in July and August; and a few were drawn from Autumn scenes on the English South Coast in September and October.
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The Evolutionist at Large By Grant Allen Mr. Allen finds illustrations of the theory of evolution in common things of every-day occurrence. 'Sitting on this little rounded boss of gneiss beside the path which cuts obliquely through the meadow, I am engaged in watching a brigade of ants out on foraging duty, and intent on securing for the nest three whole segments of a deceased earthworm. They look for all the world like those busy companies one sees in the Egyptian wall-paintings, dragging home a huge granite colossus by sheer force of bone and sinew. Every muscle in their tiny bodies is strained to the utmost as they prise themselves laboriously against the great boulders which strew the path, and which are known to our Brobdingnagian intelligence as grains of sand. Besides the workers themselves, a whole battalion of stragglers runs to and fro upon the broad line which leads to the head-quarters of the community. The province of these stragglers, who seem so busy doing nothing, probably consists in keeping communications open, and encouraging the sturdy pullers by occasional relays of fresh workmen. I often wish that I could for a while get inside those tiny brains, and see, or rather smell, the world as ants do. For there can be little doubt that to these brave little carnivores here the universe is chiefly known as a collective bundle of odours, simultaneous or consecutive. As our world is mainly a world of visible objects, theirs, I believe, is mainly a world of olfactible things'.

Excerpt:
These little Essays first appeared in the columns of the 'pall Mall Gazette, ' and I have to thank the Editor for his kind and courteous permission to republish them here. They were written in almost every case exactly under the circumstances which they describe, so that they form the record of a single summer's stray thoughts on Nature from an easy-going, half-scientific, half aesthetic standpoint. Some of them were made up in Dorsetshire during early Spring; some were suggested among the Welsh hills in July and August; and a few were drawn from Autumn scenes on the English South Coast in September and October.

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