...Philosophia Botanica" into twelve parts, because there are twelve months in the year; and into 365 paragraphs, because this is the number of days in...seven; because the world was created in seven days!!! In the ' Encyclopedia of Plants,' we find none of these puerilities. The plan is to follow up the brief...

...B. ' In the body.' SB ' No, it is in the soul.' M. ' Supposing it to be in the body, what is it? I have five fingers on each hand, and five toes on each foot; when I am hungry, I eat food, and am satisfied; when I am weary, I sleep, and am refreshed; when a...

...Fingers. Toes. * 5+5 + 5+5=20 20 5 Fingers, or 20 Toes and Fingers. Too' 400" 20 8,000 As long as men have five fingers on each hand, and five toes on each foot, human numeration will probably always proceed by fives, — the fingers on one hand ; tens, the fingers...

...live, to find anything so extraordinary. The men you would find would be upright in form, and would have five fingers on each hand and five toes on each foot. They would be strong men, too, as a rule, capable of doing a hard day's work for a livelihood. They...

...account for it, but science has satisfactorily explained it. It is because the human race happens to have five fingers on each hand and five toes on each foot. Or, to go further back, it is because in the transition from the finny Dipneusta to the digitate SozobrancMa,...

...retiring to rest." From such an author we might expect the remark that — " The majority of people have five fingers on each hand and five toes on each foot." The muscular, circulatory, and nerve systems are treated in a similarly brief and unsatisfactory manner,...

...in them, that they cannot understand that the use of 10 as a basis, is due solely to the fact that we have five fingers on each hand and five toes on each foot. If mankind had had six instead of five, there never would have been any difficulty. To Appendix E,...

...established in them, that they cannot understand that the use of 10 as a basis is due solely to the fact that we have five fingers on each hand and five toes on each foot. If mankind had had six instead of five, there never would have been any difficulty." As regards the...

...lizard-like tail having a row of feathers on either side. The ancestor of the first bird was a reptile with five fingers on each hand and five toes on each foot." ,, . , . „ , "The stories and songs of negroes and Indians, Primitive Peoples as gathered in books of folk-lore, constitute...

...chicken do not develop. It can be accepted as a rule that creatures were intended in the original plan to have five fingers on each hand and five toes on each foot, making our count of tens, which is the world's basis for counting, and has always been. Why Do We Have...