The dispute between modern zoologists opens yet another field of application of the deductive method. We think that the question of whether there is or not there is a necessary balance between the different parts of any of the body, is solved a priori. Cuvier, the first of which declared that the required ratio, based their restoration of extinct animals. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and de Blainville, from different points of view, contested Cuvier's hypothesis, and extremely an interesting discussion of this, based on paleontology, recently renewed in a slightly modified form: Professor Huxley and Oven are one opponent, another defender of this hypothesis. Cuvier says, "comparative anatomy is the principle of the true development which is sufficient to dissipate all difficulties: it is the ratio of the forms in organized beings, with which, strictly speaking, to determine every organized being a piece of some part. Every organized being constitutes a whole, unified, and perfect the system, which parts correspond to each other and their mutual reactions contribute to the same final goal. None of these parts are not can be changed without changing the other, and therefore each separately defines all the rest." Cuvier cites the different explanation: he argues that the form of the carnivorous tooth, causing known the action of the jaw, implies a particular form of the condyles, involves the members adapted for seizing and holding prey, and thus claws, a well-known device of the claws of the feet, the known form of blade, and finishes, saying, "the Claw, the scapula, condyle, femur and all the other bones, taken separately, single tooth or some other part, and the man thoroughly knows the law of organic economy, could be one of them to reconstruct a whole animal."
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The dispute between modern zoologists opens yet another field of application
of the deductive method. We think that the question of whether there is or not
there is a necessary balance between the different parts of any
of the body, is solved a priori.
Cuvier, the first of which declared that the required ratio, based
their restoration of extinct animals. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and de
Blainville, from different points of view, contested Cuvier's hypothesis, and extremely
an interesting discussion of this, based on paleontology, recently renewed in
a slightly modified form: Professor Huxley and Oven are one
opponent, another defender of this hypothesis.
Cuvier says, "comparative anatomy is the principle of the true development
which is sufficient to dissipate all difficulties: it is the ratio of the forms
in organized beings, with which, strictly speaking,
to determine every organized being a piece of some part.
Every organized being constitutes a whole, unified, and perfect
the system, which parts correspond to each other and their mutual reactions
contribute to the same final goal. None of these parts are not
can be changed without changing the other, and therefore each
separately defines all the rest." Cuvier cites the different
explanation: he argues that the form of the carnivorous tooth, causing known
the action of the jaw, implies a particular form of the condyles, involves the members
adapted for seizing and holding prey, and thus
claws, a well-known device of the claws of the feet, the known form of blade, and
finishes, saying, "the Claw, the scapula, condyle, femur and all the other bones,
taken separately, single tooth or some other part, and the man
thoroughly knows the law of organic economy, could be one of them
to reconstruct a whole animal."
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