 | Erasmus Darwin - 1818 - 616 Seiten
...of those insects that are formed into societies, as the bees, wasps, and ants, I make no doubt but we should find, that their arts and improvements are...and uniform as they now appear to us, but that they rose in the same manner from experience VOL. I. T and tradition, as the arts of our own species; though... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 578 Seiten
...that the arts of bees, wasps, and ants, if we were better acquainted with their histories, have arisen in the same manner from experience and tradition,...of our own species; though their reasoning is from fewer ideas." — " And, that as animals seem to have undergone great changes, as well as the inanimate... | |
 | Edward Bevan - 1827 - 454 Seiten
...endeavoured to resolve all instincts into reason, and has boldly hazarded the following conjecture. " If we were better acquainted with the histories of...fewer objects, and is exerted with less energy*." Since the Doctor wrote this passage, much light has been thrown upon those very subjects on which he... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1827 - 414 Seiten
...of those insects that are formed into societies, as the " bees, wasps, and ants, I make no doubt but we should find ' « that their arts and improvements are not so similar and uni" form as they now appear to us, but that they arose, in the " same manner, from experience and... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 524 Seiten
...of those insects that are formed into societies, as the bees, wasps, and ants, I make no doubt but we should find that their arts and improvements are...of our own species ; though their reasoning is from fewer ideas, is busied about fewer objects, and is exerted with less energy." * Of the two theories,... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1832 - 340 Seiten
...acquainted with the histories of those insects which are formed into societies, as bees, ants, and wasps, we should find that their arts and improvements are...species; though their reasoning is from few ideas, busied about fewer objects, and is exerted with less energy. My theory does not, I confess, go quite... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1832 - 342 Seiten
...acquainted with the histories of those insects which are formed into societies, as bees, ants, and wasps, we should find that their arts and improvements are...tradition) as the arts of our own species ; though their reason ing is from few ideas, busied about fewer objects, and is exerted with less energy. My theory... | |
 | Edward Bevan - 1843 - 140 Seiten
...hassendeavoured to resolve all instincts into reason, and has boldly hazarded the following conjecture. " If he were better acquainted with the histories of those...fewer objects, and is exerted with less energy."* Since the Doctor wrote this passage, much light has been thrown upon those very subjects on which he... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 Seiten
...reference, those insects that are formed into societies, as the bees, wasps, and ants, I make no doubt but we should find that their arts and improvements are...of our own species ; though their reasoning is from fewer ideas, is busied about fewer objects, and is exerted with less energy."1 Of the two theories,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 Seiten
...have ohtho-e insects that are formed into societies, as the bees, wasps, and ants, I make no doubt but we should find that their arts and improvements are...of our own species ; though their reasoning is from fewer ideas, is busied about fewer objects, and is exerted with less energy."1 Of the two theories,... | |
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If we were better acquainted with the histories of those insects that are formed into societies, as the bees, wasps, and ants, I make no doubt but we should find that their arts and improvements are not so similar and uniform as they now appear to us,... 
