“We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. It is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a democracy, and therefore puzzling and unaccountable from the former point of view.” KnowsDoeScienceWealthAnimalViewsCommonDemocracyEvolutionLowsBasesPhilosophicalPoint Of ViewKingdomsFormerVegetablesHighs And LowsPuzzlingAnimal Kingdom Book:Letters of Asa Gray Source: Letters of Asa Gray
“The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.” KindTwoDifferentFunctionDifficultyStructureConvictionKingdomsFormerDisturbedNaturalist Book:Natural Science and Religion: Two Lectures Delivered to the Theological School of Yale College Source: Natural Science and Religion: Two Lectures Delivered to the Theological School of Yale College
