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Biology is the science which treats of all living organisms, from Man to the lowest plant. No natural science is at present more keenly pursued or with more effect. The advances of Astronomy and Geology have produced great changes in men's minds during the last three centuries: Biology is producing changes at least as great, in the present age. So rapid has been its progress that the Natural History of Animals and Plants needs to be rewritten the field of Nature being surveyed from a new stand-point. Such a history may be written in two ways: (1) Living beings may be treated as one whole, their various powers and the more general facts as to their organization being successively portrayed as they exist in the whole series; or (2) one animal (or plant) may be selected as a type and treated of in detail, other types, successively more divergent in structure from the first, being described afterwards.
In following the latter mode, we may either begin with one of the most simply organised of living creatures and gradually ascend to the highest and most complex in structure; or we may commence with the latter, and thence descend to the consideration of the lowest kinds of animated beings.
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1330273060
- ISBN 13 9781330273067
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages579
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