The Kingdom of Man
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The Kingdom of Man is by E. Ray Lankester, M.A. D.Sc. LL.D. F.R.S., given as honorary fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Under the heading The word Nature, the text says the signification attached to the word Nature is by no means the same at the present day as it has been in the past. The author says the professed student of modern sciences usually understands the word as a name for the entire mechanism of the universe, the kosmos in all its parts, and that he uses it in this sense. Giordano Bruno, who a little more than 300 years ago visited Oxford and expounded his views, was perhaps the first to perceive and teach the unity of this greater Nature.
Hirase and Ikeno are said to have astonished the botanical world fifteen years ago by showing that motile antherozoids or spermatozoa are produced by two gymnosperms, the ging-ko tree and the cycads. Dr. Wallis, an original member, writes that he takes the first ground and foundation to have been in London about the year 1645, when Dr. Wilkins and others met weekly at a certain day and hour.
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- E. Ray Lankester
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- 140
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