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Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?

  • -- Asa Gray ASA灰色

在没有化石植物证据的情况下，假定植物科或任何属曾经是更大、分布更广的，这是合乎哲学的吗?占据了一个连续的区域?

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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.

现在最好的意见是，有许多形态没有足够的区别来区分植物或动物，而就普通的植物和动物而言，给它们下一个定义比以往任何时候都困难得多。

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Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

每一个哲学问题，当它经过必要的分析和论证时，就会发现，要么不是真正的哲学问题，要么就是我们所说的逻辑问题。

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A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.

第二种直接证据是由陈述形成的，无论是作为正式的传说还是个人信息，关于土著人自己在部落历史上所作的事件的年龄或相对顺序。

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The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

探究的哲学精神可以追溯到野蛮的好奇心，也可以追溯到探究一切事物以寻找食物的习惯。

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I don't see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.

基于经济和道德方面的证据，我不认为我们能走得更远。

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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

没有付诸行动的想法永远不会比它们所占据的脑细胞更大。

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If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

如果你用有机材料培植土壤，植物就会生长得很好。

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