... to your eyes, have a sphere of sensibility and intellectual enjoyment far superior to that of the inhabitants of your earth; each of those tubes which appears like the trunk of an elephant, is an organ of peculiar motion or sensation. They have many... The Plurality of Worlds ... - Page 158by William Whewell - 1854 - 307 lehteFull view - About this book
| Sir Humphry Davy - 1830 - 330 lehte
...zoophytes of the polar sea, to which they are not unlike in their apparent organization to your eyes, have a sphere of sensibility and intellectual enjoyment far superior to that of the inhabitants of your earth; each of those tubes which appears like the trunk of an elephant, is an organ of peculiar... | |
| Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 430 lehte
...zoophytes of the Polar Sea, to which they are not unlike in their apparent organisation to your eyes, have a sphere of sensibility and intellectual enjoyment far superior to that of the inhabitants of your earth : each of these tubes, which appears like the trunk of an elephant, is an organ of peculiar... | |
| Scotland Church of - 1855 - 392 lehte
...zoophytes of the Polar Sea, to which they are not unlike in their apparent organization to your eyes, have a sphere of sensibility and intellectual enjoyment far superior to that of the inhabitants of your earth ; each of these tubes, which appears like the trunk of an elephant, is an organ of peculiar... | |
| William Whewell - 1854 - 318 lehte
...left, vertebrate, with fore limbs and hind limbs, heads, organs of sense in their heads, and the like 1 Every one can see how rash and fanciful it would be...consistent form to the inhabitants of other planets. 82. But even if we could assent to the opinion, as probable, that there may occur, on some other planet,... | |
| William Whewell - 1855 - 468 lehte
...the play of their invention, imagined inhabitants of other planets, have tried to avoid this sei^vile imitation of terrestrial forms. Here is Sir Humphry...superior to that of the inhabitants of the Earth. Jf we were to reason upon a work of fancy like this, we might say, that it was just as easy to ascribe... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 lehte
...zoophytes of the Polar Sea, to which they are not unlike in their apparent organization to your eyes, have a sphere of sensibility and intellectual enjoyment far superior to that of .the inhabitants of your earth. Each of those tubes which appears like the trunk of an elephant is an organ of peculiar... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 lehte
...zoophytes of the Polar Sea, to which they are not unlike in their apparent organization to your eyes, have a sphere of sensibility and intellectual enjoyment far superior to that of the inhabitants of your earth. Each of those tubes which appears like the trunk of an elephant is an organ of peculiar... | |
| William Whewell - 2001 - 534 lehte
...convolutions of tubes, more analogous to tho trunk of the elephant, than to anything else I can imagine, |2Oc occupying what I supposed to be the upper parts of...like this, we might say, that it was just as easy to ascribo superior sensibility and intelligence to zoophyte-formed creatures upon the Earth, as in Saturn.... | |
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