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Asa Gray

American Scientist

Born: Nov 18, 1810

Died: Jan 30, 1888

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Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win. Asa Gray

Win Wish Judgment Approbation Indeed Say Those Charitable Rather Could Most Expect Than May Much Full Assent Whose

I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room. Asa Gray

You Wish Pulpit Echo Take Hear Nor Theological Granted

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families. Asa Gray

Best Great Cause Range Must See Genera Small Accept Reduced Families Same May Explaining Large Many Species Extinction

I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on. Asa Gray

You People Speak Some People Difficulties Some Never Had Know Sure Felt Real Understood Any Hold Your Moment Who Foundation

It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend. Asa Gray

Plants Animals Other Though Higher Simpler Blend Always Understood Were Very Contrasted Closely Representatives Forms Lower Plants And Animals Each Believed

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before. Asa Gray

Best Animal Plant Plants Animals Become Before Down Difficulty Respects Definition Laying Greater Opinion Than Ordinary Either Which While Forms Far Plants And Animals Now Ever Differentiated Sufficiently

In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop. Asa Gray

Animal Above Join Vegetable Loop Lines Short Widely Below

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape. Asa Gray

Life Animal Plant Definite Scale Throughout Shape Simpler Individuals Spoken Existence Low Whole Beings Specialized Sufficiently

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