“In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced by their own exertions... and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity."” YearsFactsFormAnimalTransformationSevenPerpetualGrandfatherSeven YearsPosterityExertionPropensity Author:Erasmus Darwin
“The contradictions in Renan , his feminine sensibility, coquetry, unavowed egotism, and sudden emotional outbursts, all indicate a soul deliberately using distraction as a means of evasion. The perpetual equivocation bears witness to God in the same way as the twisting and turning of a hunted animal indicates the presence of an unseen hunter.” WayMeanSoulAnimalEmotionalBearsWitnessContradictionFeminineDistractionPerpetualSensibilityUnseenHuntersEgotismHuntedEvasionOutburstCoquetryEmotional Outbursts Book:The Impostor Source: The Impostor
“All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.” WantBodySeemsEarthNatureChangeAnimalAirMountainAll ThingsPlantPassingPassingsSmokePerpetualConsumptionIncessantlyAdamant Book:The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson