This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...this work of receiving impressions from the outer world. Animals, even the lowest, also have means of making voluntary movements, which either help them in feeding alone, or, when they are not fixed as by a stem to some solid body, enables them to move about at will. Some low plants, and the seed of many plants, have ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...this work of receiving impressions from the outer world. Animals, even the lowest, also have means of making voluntary movements, which either help them in feeding alone, or, when they are not fixed as by a stem to some solid body, enables them to move about at will. Some low plants, and the seed of many plants, have means of moving that at first sight look like those of animals; but they are plainly involuntary organs, and not connected with any capacity of nervous sensations nor to be compared with the motive parts of true animals. When, from the lowest forms of these beings we pass upward to the higher, we find that in plants the following objects are sought to be accomplished. The structure is arranged so as to give a solid stem and branches, and to contain many separate individuals in one community. The work of leaves is separated from the rest of the plant, and the roots are inverted, which enable the plant to draw a certain share of its nourishment from the ground. Especially, it can find water there, which would often be unattainable in the air. While the plants remain water creatures, they do not need their roots: it is only when they come to dwell on the land that their roots become developed. In the water they found all they needed for their life without these appliances. These steps lead us up from the simplest seaweeds, which have nothing that we can fairly call leaves, stems, or roots, through the higher seaweeds, where the stem becomes distinct from the leaves, through the mosses and lichens, the ferns, the palms, the pines, to our oaks and other familiar trees. In this succession of forms, the plant contrives to separate its parts into the roots, that gather food from the soil, the stem, which supports the upper part of the body and keeps a ...
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Near Fine. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 252 pp. plus index and advertising. Light wear to the spine ends and corners. Previous owner's name, dated Feb 21, 1896, is on the front free endpaper. Otherwise fine in a sound binding with hinges intact.
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