 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...are beautiful objects, — will be admitted by every one. But this beauty serves merely as a guide to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured and the manured seeds disseminated : I infer that this is the case from having as yet found no exception to... | |
 | Bristol Naturalists' Society (Bristol, England) - Natural history - 1888 - 746 pages
...are beautiful objects, — will be admitted by every one. But this beauty serves merely as a guide to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured and manured seeds disseminated : I infer that this is the case from having as yet found no exception to... | |
 | Conwy Lloyd Morgan - Animal behavior - 1891 - 542 pages
...are beautiful objects, — will be admitted by every one. But this beauty serves merely as a guide to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured and manured seeds disseminated : I infer that this is the case from having as yet found no exception to... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1896 - 406 pages
...are beautiful objects, — will be admitted by every one. But this beauty serves merely as a guide to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured and the matured seeds disseminated : I infer that this is the case from having as yet found no exception to... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 408 pages
...are beautiful objects, — will be admitted by every one. But this beauty serves merely as a guide to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured and the matured seeds disseminated : I infer that this is the case from having as yet found no exception to... | |
 | James Foster Scott - Ethics - 1898 - 442 pages
...wind for the scattering of their pollen are never gayly colored, and " beauty serves merely as a guide to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured and the manured seeds disseminated."' Animals and plants have not been created beautiful in order to delight... | |
 | James Foster Scott - Sex - 1900 - 436 pages
...wind for the scattering of thoir nollon nro never gayly colored, and "beauty serves merely as a guide, to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured nnd tho manured seeds disseminated.'"' 1 Animals and plants have not been created beautiful in order... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1909 - 584 pages
...are beautiful objects, — will be admitted by every one. But this beauty serves merely as a guide to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured and the manured seeds disseminated: I infer that this is the case from having as yet found no exception to... | |
 | Charles John Shebbeare - Teleology - 1918 - 282 pages
...holly are beautiful objects — will be admitted by every one. But this beauty serves merely as a guide to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured and the manured seeds disseminated. I infer that this is the case from having as yet found no exception to... | |
 | Woodbridge Riley - Science - 1926 - 376 pages
...oak, nut, and ash tree. Gayly colored berries have beauty, but this beauty serves merely as a guide to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured and the manured seeds scattered about. Darwin has here been criticized for being more practical than poetical,... | |
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But this beauty serves merely as a guide to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured and the manured seeds disseminated : I infer that this is the case from having as yet found no exception to the rule that seeds are always thus disseminated... 
