All 4 Uses of
species
in
Of Human Bondage
- Men attach importance only to self-preservation and the propagation of their species.†
Chpt 41-42 *species = a similar group of animals or plants
- He read The Origin of Species.†
Chpt 53-54
- The first readers of The Origin of Species accepted it with their reason; but their emotions, which are the ground of conduct, were untouched.†
Chpt 53-54
- There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.†
Chpt 53-54
Definition:
a group of animals or plants that are similar -- typically identified as belonging to the same group when they are of a kind that can reproduce new members of the group together