Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ... same original type-form, how that form has branched like a tree in the fields--dividing and dividing and dividing again! But the likeness to the tree fails when we consider that no two branches are alike; in fact, that they are as unlike as pears and peaches and apples and berries and cherries would be on the same tree--all of the same family, but diverging widely in the species. The ground-dwellers, such as woodchucks and prairie-dogs and gophers, have many similar habits, as have the tree-dwellers and the hares and rabbits. That any of these rodent groups will branch again and develop a new species is in harmony with the doctrine of evolution. But these evolutionary processes are so slow that probably the whole span of human history would be inadequate to measure one of them. Nearly all the animal forms that we know are specialized forms, like our tools and implements--shaped for some particular line of activity. Man is the most generalized of animals; his organization opens to him many fields of activity. The woodpecker must peck for his food, the kingfisher must dive, the flycatcher must swoop, the hawk must strike, the squirrel must gnaw, the cat must spring, the woodcock must probe, the barnyard fowls must scratch, and so on, but man is not thus limited. His hands are tools that can be turned to a thousand uses. They are for love or war, to caress or to smite, to climb or to swim, to hurl or to seize, to delve or to build., The organization of most animals has special reference to their mode of getting a living. That is the dominant need, and stamps itself upon every organism. Man is a miscellaneous feeder and a world-wide traveler, hence all climes and conditions are his. He is at home in the arctics or the tropics, on the sea, on the land, and in t...
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About the Author
JOHN BURROUGHS, USAF, Ret., served twenty-seven years in active and reserve duty in the US Air Force. He is the co-author of" Encounter in Rendlesham Forest." He is currently a lecturer and presenter on the Rendlesham Forest Incident and other related events.
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