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The various degrees of difference between the languages of the same stock would have to be expressed by groups subordinate to groups; but the proper or even the only possible arrangement would still be genealogical; and this would be strictly natural, as it would connect together all languages, extinct and recent, by the closest affinities, and would give the filiation and origin of each tongue.
'Rollo, he said, blowing a smoke-ring, 'do you believe in affinities? Rollo, in the act of sipping a liqueur brandy, lowered his glass in surprise. Mr Galloway continued, his voice rising as he spoke. 'My boy, he said, 'I feel young tonight for the first time in years. And, hang it, I'm not so old! Men have married at twice my age.
On the other hand the heroic drama, of which Dryden's Conquest of Granada and Tyrannic Love may be taken as fair samples, has obvious affinities with the more questionable side of the Elizabethan stage. It may be defined as wanting in all the virtues and as exaggerating all the vices of the Elizabethan dramatists.
For instance, when he wants to describe the affinity that exists between many substances in chemistry, and which makes it impossible for them not to be attracted to one another, he takes a figure from the attractions that he sees exist among men and women. It is curious to find affinities discussed in our modern sense so long ago.
Distinction and a curious charm there may well be in such a pursuit, but this quality is perhaps traceable to affinities and associations with other more substantial interests, or is due to the ingenious temper it denotes, which touches that of the wit or magician. Mathematics, if it were nothing more than a pleasure, might conceivably become a vice.
P.S. I will take this opportunity of asking you if you know of any book that will give me a complete catalogue of vertebrate fossils with some indication of their affinities. Down, Beckenham, Kent. January 13, 1873. My dear Wallace, I have read your review with much interest, and I thank you sincerely for the very kind spirit in which it is written.
Now, she and I hit it off most amazingly. There's hardly a thing we don't think alike about. For instance, 'The Merry Widow' didn't make a bit of a hit with her. Nor did it with me. Yet, look at the millions of people who raved about it. And neither of us likes oysters. We're affinities that's why. You see the same sort of thing all over the place. It's a jolly queer business.
On the slow and successive appearance of new species On their different rates of change Species once lost do not reappear Groups of species follow the same general rules in their appearance and disappearance as do single species On extinction On simultaneous changes in the forms of life throughout the world On the affinities of extinct species to each other and to living species On the state of development of ancient forms On the succession of the same types within the same areas Summary of preceding and present chapters.
Other cases of similar remote affinities between the productions of distant countries no doubt exist, but in no spot upon the globe that I am yet acquainted with, do so many of them occur together, or do they form so decided a feature in the natural history of the country. The Mammalia of Celebes are very few in number, consisting of fourteen terrestrial species and seven bats.
Our bodies, as now constituted, are corruptible by their very nature. The elements of matter which compose them are held together by the laws of life, and not by their natural affinities. Hence, from the very first moment of our existence to our death, there is a continual struggle between the laws of life and those that govern inorganic matter.
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