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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WINTER MEETING. Indianapolis, Dec. 27 and 28, 1893. PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. The Special Senses Of Plants. By J. C. Arthur. We are told by Louise Michel, a woman of remarkable, if somewhat eccentric intellectual powers, that when in Australia Bitting at her window one day her attention was attracted by the slow but regular movements of a climbing plant. Its long free end swept slowly around, like an outstretched arm reaching for something to cling to. Does it feel ? is it moving in response to some inward desire ? are the questions she asked herself; and thought it not improbable that an affirmative answer might be truthfully given. The last number of Meghan's Monthly, a journal of considerable scientific pretention, gives editorial endorsement to essentially the same views. To what extent plants have senses or sensibility is a question that thoughtful people have asked, and will continue to ask, and is indeed a subject well worthy of attention. In the days of Aristotle plants as well as animals were distinguished from the inanimate world by the possession of a soul, to which the characteristic features of the organism as a living object, were ascribed. Aristotle's theory of a soul in plants was ably expounded by the distinguished Italian scholar, Cesalpino, in the sixteenth century. He entered into lengthy arguments regarding the seat of the soul, and concluded that it must reside in the pith, particularly in certain portions of it. With a philosophy of this nature there was nothing incongruous in the popular notion of the times that some plants were endowed with properties akin to human. Some exercised wonderful spells over persons coming into their presence, and some would shriek like mandrakes torn out of the earth, that living mortals hearing them, run mad, as...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217973724
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 104
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217973728
  • Publisher Date: 03 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 200 gr


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