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Success, whether it be of the individual or of the race, depends in large measure upon forethoughtfulness, on a disposition to study as to where profit may be had, and intelligently to seek accessions of strength by experiments in domestication. Each of these winnings from the wilderness represented by our domesticated animals or plants has been painfully and laboriously gained.
I know of no people within the Bontoc area who now systematically domesticate the wild fowl, though this was found to be the custom of the Ibilao southeast of Dupax in the Province of Nueva Vizcaya. Those people catch the young wild fowl for domestication.
The appeals of the prophet and the revivalist, the Psalmist's "Taste and see," the Baptist's "Change your hearts," are all invitations to an alteration in the direction of desire, which would turn our instinctive energies in a new direction and begin the domestication of the human soul for God.
Traité de l'Hérédité, ii. 489; Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, i. 469. If injuries are inherited, why has the repeated rupture of the hymen produced no inherited effect? Compare the three cases of crooked fingers given in Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, ii. 55, 240. Ibid., i. 460.
Elephants: Ancient History; Distribution; Intelligence; Use in the Arts; Need of True Domestication. Pigs: their Peculiar Economic Value; Modern Varieties; Mental Qualities. Relation of the Development of Domesticable Animals to the Time of Man's Appearance on the Earth.
Formerly he enjoyed travel with all its necessary concomitants. It amused him to check his baggage and depart from stations, to arrive at hotels and settle himself in new rooms; the very domiciliation in sleeping-cars or the domestication in diners had a charm which was apparently perennial; a trip in a river-boat was rapture; an ocean voyage was ecstasy.
Darwin did, indeed, follow Buffon and Lamarck in at once turning to animals and plants under domestication in order to bring the plasticity of organic forms more easily home to his readers, but the fact that variations can be transmitted and intensified by selective breeding had been so well established and was so widely known long before Mr.
Dolichocephalic structure, possible cause of. Dolphins, nakedness of. Domestic animals, races of; change of breeds of. Domestication, influence of, in removing the sterility of hybrids. D'Orbigny, A., on the influence of dampness and dryness on the colour of the skin; on the Yuracaras. Dotterel. Doubleday, E., on sexual differences in the wings of butterflies.
There is no reason why the principles which have acted so efficiently under domestication should not have acted under nature. In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly recurrent Struggle for Existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of Selection.
The experiments of M. Brown-Sequard throw so much light upon the question at issue that I will quote at some length from the summary given by Mr. Darwin in his "Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication." Mr. Darwin writes: Darwin, "the above several negative cases, we now possess conclusive evidence that the effects of operations are sometimes inherited. Dr.
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