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Page 35
... nature nor man , a point of view that understandably disturbs the miser , who has just placed his confidence in the herb doctor and the natural medicines he sells . The herb doctor , of course , undertakes to defend both nature and man ...
... nature nor man , a point of view that understandably disturbs the miser , who has just placed his confidence in the herb doctor and the natural medicines he sells . The herb doctor , of course , undertakes to defend both nature and man ...
Page 108
... Nature herself has made such creations . He cites the flying squirrel as an animal “ in- congruous in its parts " and the caterpillar , which soon becomes the butterfly , as " at variance with itself " ( 70 ) . And he notes that the ...
... Nature herself has made such creations . He cites the flying squirrel as an animal “ in- congruous in its parts " and the caterpillar , which soon becomes the butterfly , as " at variance with itself " ( 70 ) . And he notes that the ...
Page 121
... nature subject to variation . The grand points of human nature are the same to - day as they were a thousand years ago . The only variability in them is in expression , not in feature " ( 71 ) . The imaginative unity that the author ...
... nature subject to variation . The grand points of human nature are the same to - day as they were a thousand years ago . The only variability in them is in expression , not in feature " ( 71 ) . The imaginative unity that the author ...
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