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But tormals have certain valuable, genetically transmitted talents which make them much more valuable than mere companions or pets. Calhoun got a light-reading for the banded sun. It could hardly be an accurate measure of distance, but it was a guide. "Hold on to something, Murgatroyd!" he said. Murgatroyd watched. He saw Calhoun make certain gestures which presaged discomfort.
It was the "hammer-head" shark, or balance-fish, so-called from the peculiar formation of its head, the zygaena of the naturalists, and one of the most voracious of that devouring tribe to which genetically it belongs.
If that which has sensation and that which has it not, are to be brought genetically near one another, and hence the difference between the two at the point where the lowest sentient being has found its first existence, is to be made void or at least bridged over, then it is much more reasonable, and also in the line of Strauss's solution, to deny the difference between that which has sensation and that which has it not, and to do this in the sense in which we also declare that to be sentient which we have hitherto been accustomed to regard as without sensation; and we should likewise attribute sensation to the original elements of the world, be they called atoms or whatever one may wish.
Darwin believes that those resemblances and differences upon which our natural systems or classifications of animals and plants are based, are resemblances and differences which have been produced genetically, but we can discover no reason for supposing that he denies the existence of natural classifications of other kinds.
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