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Variation of Birds in a State of Nature by Frank Russell, 1892

Variation of Birds in a State of Nature by Frank Russell, 1892, Page 26

or less degree in nearly every part of every bird, at all events in the types here selected. How great must be the chance for natural selection when the variation may reach 100% of the mean measurement! Where it averages from 30 to 69. What an endless variety may arise from combinations of these variations. Indeed, I am now not surprised that species and individuals do vary but rather that any character offers sufficient stability for the maintenance of specific distinctions.

It is hard to leave this thesis devoted as it is to cold facts, without paying tribute to our feathered friends themselves, to this quick breathing, quick living race, whose hearts blood ten degrees warmer than our own nourishes a body, a mechanism, so marvelous so inimitable; and a bran stirred by the kindest passions. Masters are they of space and light, with a magnetic prescience, they may fly from disaster and storm, while plodding man must pass through sorrow and sin, through toil and sweat, to purchase sovereignty. But such tribute must be paid at another time when, not fact, but fancy shall be my theme.

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or less degree in nearly every part of every bird, at all events in the types here selected. How great must be the chance for natural selection when the variation may reach 100% of the mean measurement! Where it averages from 30 to 69. What an endless variety may arise from combinations of these variations. Indeed, I am now not surprised that species and individuals do vary but rather that any character offers sufficient stability for the maintenance of specific distinctions. It is hard to leave this thesis devoted as it is to cold facts, without paying tribute to our feathered friends themselves, to this quick breathing, quick living race, whose hearts blood ten degrees warmer than our own nourishes a body, a mechanism, so marvelous so inimitable; and a bran stirred by the kindest passions. Masters are they of space and light, with a magnetic prescience, they may fly from disaster and storm, while plodding man must pass through sorrow and sin, through toil and sweat, to purchase sovereignty. But such tribute must be paid at another time when, not fact, but fancy shall be my theme. The End.