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Inheritance provides the constancy of form and variation in detail that are characteristic of all living things.

Inheritance provides the constancy of form, and variation in detail that are characteristic of all living things.

Living species of plants and animals are characterized by their constancy of general form.

To which end it is requisite, first, That there should be a scrupulous choice, and a strict examination, of the reality, constancy, and certainty of the Particulars that we admit: This is the first rise whereon truth is to begin, and here the most severe, and most impartial diligence, must be imployed; the storing up of all, without any regard to evidence or use, will only tend to darkness and confusion.

If this were not so, there would be no constancy of species, and a horse might beget a calf or a sow have a litter of puppies, which is never the case,-for in all time we find repeated in the offspring the structure, the instincts and all the general characteristics of the parents, and never those of another species.

" But while experience teaches the constancy of hereditary transmission, it teaches just as plainly that the constancy is not absolute and [22]perfect, and this introduces us to another law, viz: that of variation, which will be considered by and by; our present concern is to ascertain what we can of the law of similarity.

Some families are remarkable during long periods for tall and handsome figures and striking regularity of features, while in others a less perfect form, or some peculiar deformity reappears with equal constancy.

Instead of constancy, there is continual variation, and frequent "breeding back," exhibiting the undesirable traits of inferior ancestors.

"Thus we reached his bride, whose virtue and constancy were equal to his own.

But, once originated, the conception of the constancy of the order of Nature has become the dominant idea of modern thought.

Though we are quite clear about the constancy of the order of Nature, at the present time, and in the present state of things, it by no means necessarily follows that we are justified in expanding this generalisation into the infinite past, and in denying, absolutely, that there may have been a time when Nature did not follow a fixed order, when the relations of cause and effect were not definite, and when extra-natural agencies interfered with the general course of Nature.

His fleshly arms are never strong enough; she will slip out of them; all the tales of woman’s constancy and woman’s virtue have no word of truth in them; the women were virtuous because their lack of virtue was never discovered.

No, there’s no constancy about the stars.

It is, however, a common error on the part of current writers to overrate the constancy and reliability of the winds in various parts of the world, and to lay too much stress on the value of permanent wind charts.

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