| 单词 | fecundity |
| 例句 | Breathing thick marine air that carried the scent of a minus tide, I marveled at the fecundity of the Seattle spring, appreciating its damp, mossy charms as never before. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Eurasia is protected by its vast land spaces, Oceania by the width of the Atlantic and the Pacific, Eastasia by the fecundity and industriousness of its inhabitants. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It was as if they had scent glands or marsupial pouches, adaptations for fecundity, for procreating in the wild, which had nothing to do with skinny, hairless, domesticated me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A kind of still and violent fecundity that satisfied even bread-hunger like. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z His mares would bear triplets, his hens laid twice a day, and his hogs fattened with such speed that no one could explain such disorderly fecundity except through the use of black magic. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The fecundity of many forms of life is almost beyond our power to imagine, though now and then we have suggestive glimpses. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He suggested I talk to Margaret Atwood, the author of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a novel in which declining fecundity leads to authoritarianism and where sperm health is a taboo topic. Men Are Panicking About Their Sperm Count 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Raimbaut's eye and mind are firmly set on the month's fabled fecundity, both in the world of nature and in his beloved, the fair Beatrice. Poster poems: May 2012-05-18T12:50:18Z He never shirked the challenge of rewriting, though many of us nearly drowned under the weight of his fecundity. Snoo Wilson obituary 2013-07-05T17:57:52Z That aside, one can only salute and marvel at the staggering fecundity of idea and insight that turns almost every remaining paragraph into a hive of constellated meaning. Review: ‘The Golden Notebook,’ by Doris Lessing 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z As we both drink the liquid, resonant with hints of chocolate and black cherry, a fecundity of cello strings mixed with the silvery falsetto of birdsong washes over us. Heard it through the grapevine: can music really change the taste of wine? 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z This is the fourth volume in the Hemingway Library series, and to read it is to be shocked again by the fecundity of his genius. Perspective | On Hemingway and the ideal of masculinity 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Primordial fecundity, then, eliminates the need to invoke other non-Adamic tribes. The Bible’s racist monstrosities: How the “word of God” has been — and still is — used to oppress 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z The result of this haute couture summer 2013 collection was never the soaring, sensual bursting of fecundity that it might have been, because Mr. Simons is not that kind of designer. At Dior, Garden of Earthly Delights 2013-01-21T17:42:31Z The electric greens of the fields and forests evoke an all-embracing fecundity. | 'Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbors': Review: ‘Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbors’ 2012-07-15T21:14:48Z Quiet, probably, because Americans are more used to talking about women and fecundity. Men Are Panicking About Their Sperm Count 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z But any quilted ethos of sweet family fecundity has long since been ruined. National Museum of African Art hurts itself with show from Bill Cosby art collection 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z For Stockhausen, this was a way of making music approach the fecundity, poetry and organic complexity of the stars, of the universe – not simply a labyrinth of musical head-scratching to get lost in. A guide to Karlheinz Stockhausen's music 2013-05-07T16:40:45Z More than that, it was also an age of astonishing literary fecundity and intellectual vitality, scarcely surpassed since. A History of the British Empire at Its Peak 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Differences in impaired fecundity and infertility related to race, income or education level were not found to be significantly significant. Motherlode Blog: Infertility Less Likely in Women With Children 2013-08-15T16:48:51Z But look more closely: Many of the flowers’ centers are brown bumpy discs that broadcast a creepy fecundity suggestive of erupting skin, simmering mud or sewage. ‘Jeff Koons: A Retrospective’ Opens at the Whitney 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z It’s not such a stretch to make the same argument for the fecundity of Irving’s imagination, despite the sometimes conspicuously autobiographical elements in his fiction and the persistent echoes among his novels. John Irving’s ‘Avenue of Mysteries’: One writer’s beginnings 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z They revolve around the disastrous conspiracy of our fecundity and our selfishness, what he calls “me-me-me.” Review | Lawrence Ferlinghetti is about to turn 100, and he hasn’t mellowed. At all. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z In fact, nature underpins our productivity and our fecundity. What Has Nature Ever Done for Us? by Tony Juniper – review 2013-01-20T10:00:01Z Theirs was a working relationship of uncommon fecundity and emotional complexity, yet Marr often seems to be circling the topic warily. Johnny Marr recalls the Smiths’ early days 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z "There is an egg hanging at the centre of the Brera Madonna that represents Mary's fecundity as well as the promise of immortality and regeneration," explained TheHistoryOfArt.org, an online website covering art history. Poached or painted: A closer look at how eggs became a complex motif in countless works of art 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z In fact, in the folk horror revival, the mystery no longer draws on fecundity and rebirth. Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z The picture called “Water” is set in an oceanic version of outer space, with darting sperm for stars and a mother ship, seen in cutaway view, packed with visions of fecundity and sexual warmth. He Spoke Out During the AIDS Crisis. See Why His Art Still Matters. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z But if blood is suddenly depleted, by injury or chemotherapy, say, then the stem cells awaken and begin to divide with awe-inspiring fecundity, generating cells that generate thousands upon thousands of blood cells. Cancer: The new normal? 2011-01-17T17:35:24Z Occasionally color drips from the central gaps or from the circles themselves, adding to the wry sense of female fecundity. Art in Review: JUDY LEDGERWOOD: ?April Showers? 2011-06-23T21:20:40Z It’s a bit of visual gamesmanship, but also a way of representing tropical fecundity. In the galleries: Finding, and creating, nature in the city 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Regal but tender, they held the promise of fecundity in a withering time, and certain sculptors made a specialty of them. Review: ‘Kongo: Power and Majesty’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z The fecundity and chemistry of the Bacharach-David team was often attributed by both men to their tireless, dedicated work ethic. Hal David, Award-Winning Lyricist, is Dead at 91 2012-09-01T23:03:16Z I’m happy to see all of them; the density and fecundity of these dances is dazzling. Review: New York City Ballet Performs Bournonville Classics at Spring Gala 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Faith and doubt went together for him, and even the greatest abandonment had a fecundity that defied war. When Cultural Heritage Becomes a Battlefront 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z But the fecundity of Alison’s writing is of a piece with her larger mission: to turn narrative theory into a supersaturated mindfuck of hedonistic extravaganza. The Deeply Wacky Pleasures of Jane Alison’s “Meander, Spiral, Explode” 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Whatever the medium, she uses shadows and modeling to create a palpable sense of depth and roundness, as well as fecundity. Review | In the galleries: ‘Afrofuturism,’ defined in the moment, by nine artists 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Photograph: AP/Canadian Press Tangerine Dream's lovely instrumental Breath Kissing Matter's Mouth suggests the burgeoning and multiplying of life on Earth, the incredible fecundity of nature. Readers recommend: songs about breathing – results 2013-05-02T13:00:06Z He fears that “the fecundity and the fundamentalism together were going to bake a nice big Christmas cake for India in about 20 years. Burqa here, fatwa there. Shariah for all.” Review: ‘Selection Day’ Presents India as Seen Through the Wickets 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Kudos to the Portland Cello Project for tapping into the musical fecundity of the city. Portland playlist from Justin Ringle 2013-05-24T23:10:32Z Then they discovered the fecundity of Jaws and Star Wars, and readjusted their strategy accordingly. Nearing the endgame: is Hollywood's lust for sequels destroying cinema? 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z One is fecundity; the more fertile a given animal the better they are thought to be doing. Are zoo animals happy? There’s a simple empathy test we can apply 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z One is a route back to childhood, to the uncensored fecundity of play and experimentation; the other is liberation from restraint, with a particular fixation on unfettered desire. The use and abuse of the feminine in Hirshhorn’s ‘Marvelous Objects’ 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z All of the artists celebrate nature for its forms, its fecundity and its enchantment. In the galleries: Celebrating nature 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z “The fictional town is a location that reflects the tension between the fecundity of the ancient forests and the constant change of the new,” Briggs writes. Best of the decade: ‘Twin Peaks,’ the Northwest’s pioneering mystery, returned to television — and North Bend, to court a new generation of fans 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z This decision is an astute marketing move to be sure—it’s easier to sell smaller pieces—but it’s also an opportunity to explore a seemingly endless fecundity. A thoroughly engaging Matthew Ronay at Marc Foxx 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Guare is 81, and while “Nantucket Sleigh Ride” is hardly valedictory, it does betray doubts about ongoing fecundity. Review: A ‘Nantucket Sleigh Ride’ with Frozen Disney and Hot Lobster 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Sensual fullness and fecundity within, gilded excess and elegance without. Museum Review: The Neon Museum in Las Vegas 2013-02-02T01:43:04Z The creepy fecundity of a child’s vinyl blow-up toy transformed into a pristine trophy for the ages curls my toes. Jeff Koons' Whitney retrospective ending with 36-hour marathon viewing 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z In “Outlawed,” marriages are celebrated for their fecundity, and mothers of lots of children enjoy considerable social power. Review | In Anna North’s riveting ‘Outlawed,’ there’s nothing more dangerous than a childless woman 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z So do the stems of Grass’s mushrooms, which embody human as well as vegetal fecundity. In the galleries: The intersection of nature and man 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z A generation of Instagram stars and personal trainers are challenging old-fashioned notions of femininity, replacing images of thinness or fecundity with brute strength. Has strong become the respectable face of skinny for young women? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z “The idea was, all these things happen simultaneously in our lives — decay and fecundity,” Mr. Sultan said. A Brontë Exhibition, Complete With a ‘Jane Eyre’ Manuscript 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Jared Alexander, the only dancer new to me, impressed with the fecundity of his imagination, at one point incorporating an imaginary jump rope, even if he seemed to get a little lost. Review: Getting Into the Tap Family Spirit With Two Stars as Hosts 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z In the hedgerows, the fecundity of the pest is soon apparent. Perspective | ‘This is going to be a bad one’: A new pest is causing quarantines in Va. and Pa. 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Arrayed on interconnected circles of bright red fabric are sixteen, modestly scaled but fantastical constructions that together create a kind of Seussian altarpiece to fecundity. A thoroughly engaging Matthew Ronay at Marc Foxx 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z In the face of such fecundity, I am ruthless. Perspective | Hunting for herbs that add flavor in the kitchen and beauty in the garden 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Run by the Yunnan provincial government, Yunteng Shifu reproduces the region’s subtropical fecundity with overflowing plastic green vines and neon cloth flowers. Heads Up: Provincial Eating in Beijing 2011-06-24T18:55:00Z Along with the void of the Sahara, he wrote, the fecundity of the tropics could propel him into “a state bordering on euphoria.” In Sri Lanka, an Island of Detachment and Desire 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z How unexpected: The sheer fecundity of the tropical rain forest, with its vast numbers of plants and animals, contrasted vividly with the hard-edge scientific and military presence of the Canal Administration. Spotting sloths and harpy eagles in Panama’s nature-rich rain forest 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z They could also help scientists better understand our planet’s fecundity and predict how lifeforms may use carbon in the future. New calculations say there are more living cells than grains of sand or stars in the sky 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z But completely knocking out all these genes would likely harm chickens’ health, as the proteins play a role in development and fecundity. In ‘proof of concept,’ CRISPR-engineered chickens shrug off flu 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z In other words, fecundity describes how many offspring could ideally be produced if an individual has as many offspring as possible, repeating the reproductive cycle as soon as possible after the birth of the offspring. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Did you know, for example, that the secret to Earth’s fecundity might be our gigantic moon? Review | In the search for extraterrestrial life, we are the real aliens 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z It’s not just that the “fecundity of capitalism” has surpassed the subsistence struggles of people in general. Opinion | Are we really divided? 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Although Keynes was wrong about the future abundance of leisure, Lindsey thinks he was right about two things: the fecundity of capitalism, and the challenge of defining purposes beyond the goal of acquiring material necessities. Opinion | Why toxic politics thrives in an age of plenty 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z Russia is well aware of the significance of Ukrainian agriculture and the fecundity of its soil. Perspective | Ukrainian farms feed Europe and China. Russia wants to end that. 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z In animals, fecundity is inversely proportional to the amount of care given to an individual offspring. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Here, genetic selection has apparently involved a loss of fecundity. Introductory Statistics 2013-09-19T00:00:00Z Rather, it’s that the fecundity of capitalism is highly unequal in its effects. Opinion | Are we really divided? 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z There are, however, upsides to all of this elongated fecundity. Our reproductive years are longer than ever — and our health may be paying a price 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z Estimates about their fecundity vary, but the conservative-to-midrange numbers say cottontails produce three or four litters a year with around six kits per litter. What’s up with all these rabbits everywhere? 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z In animals, fecundity is inversely related to the amount of parental care given to an individual offspring. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Richard Taruskin, a music scholar and historian of wide influence and spectacular fecundity who wrote the gigantic “Oxford History of Western Music,” died July 1 at a hospital in Oakland, Calif. He was 77. Richard Taruskin, provocative scholar of classical music, dies at 77 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z Given Patterson’s fecundity, you have to ask: Is it ever not the time? Review | James Patterson shares his formula for success. It’s pretty simple. 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z Many depict southern locations, where sunlight sharpened Homer’s color sense and tropical fecundity encouraged his brilliance with foliage. Review | A thrilling new take on Winslow Homer — America’s favorite artist 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z The South Africa-born local artist’s “Descartes Died in the Snow” show, named for one of her mixed-media pictures on display at Morton Fine Art, both depicts and simulates nature’s fecundity. Review | In the galleries: Uncovering life’s fragility amid ecological losses 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Conversely, organisms that start reproducing later in life often have greater fecundity or are better able to provide parental care, but they risk that they will not survive to reproductive age. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The myth was of unbridled invention, of creative fecundity almost as an end in itself. Review | The last volume in ‘A Life of Picasso’ is just as astounding as its predecessors 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z In her videos, blues are crystalline, greens burst with fecundity and reds evoke the color of blood. Pipilotti Rist's MOCA Geffen takeover is a sensuous pleasure trip you don't want to miss 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z In most animals, high fecundity almost universally comes with a quick burnout; red deer, for example, age faster if they reproduce early. What can ants, bees, and other social insects teach us about aging? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Even if the dystopia never quite arrives, the longer a period of stagnation continues, the narrower the space for fecundity and piety, memory and invention, creativity and daring. Opinion | The Age of Decadence 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z There is an inverse relationship between fecundity and parental care. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z That is why the name of the generation immediately after ours celebrates nothing but the fecundity of their parents. Perspective | The Silent Generation deserves to be heard in our classrooms 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z And it was about signalling power to other men, rather than being a symbol of fecundity. 'Codpiece envy': fashion reinvents 16th century accessory 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Flatt has been working with Korb, Heinze, and other researchers in a €6.2 million project funded by the German Research Foundation to study the unusual relationship between fecundity and aging in social insects. What can ants, bees, and other social insects teach us about aging? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Mamá would tell me growing up — he had green eyes, the color of fecundity back in the old country. Opinion | A Honeymoon on a Harley 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z There is an inverse relationship between fecundity and parental care. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Compound this dense shade with extreme fecundity, tolerance to pollution, and the ability to grow under a wide range of light and soil conditions, and we have — as government officials might put it — a situation. Some maples (sugar) are more desirable than others (Norway) | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Compound this dense shade with extreme fecundity, tolerance to pollution, and the ability to grow under a wide range of light and soil conditions, and we have - as government officials like to say - a situation. Some maples (sugar) are more desirable than others (Norway) 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The potential for fecundity in a cellular proliferation lurks amid tangled viscera. Review: Lari Pittman's extraordinary 'Declaration of Independence' at the Hammer Museum 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Our secular aristocracy relies on the fecundity of the royal family or the sacrifice of its soldiers in contrived theatres of war to avert our gaze from problems nearer to home. If there’s a cardinal sin to be made, count on the Catholic church | Kevin McKenna 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Fruit flies that are resistant to cold temperatures tend to have decreased fecundity at early ages compared to flies that are not capable of surviving the cold. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Estimates of fecundity and survival at various life stages will require monitoring in the field. Prepare river ecosystems for an uncertain future 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z They also claim that minority Muslims and Hindus have a plan to overwhelm the island by fecundity. ‘A New Enemy but the Same Hate’: Can Sri Lanka Heal Its Divisions? 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z “Mr. Richardson leaves us not only with a deep appreciation of Picasso’s Promethean ambition and prodigious fecundity,” she wrote, “but also with a shrewd understanding of his tumultuous, subversive and often disturbing art.” John Richardson, art historian and Picasso biographer, dies at 95 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z That implies natural selection has efficiently weeded out harmful variants, even if they act only in old age—perhaps, Przeworski speculates, because the variants curb older men's fecundity. Genetic data on half a million Brits reveal ongoing evolution and Neanderthal legacy 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z It may take two to make a baby but fertility and fecundity are understood to be a woman’s responsibility not least because they represent the underpinnings of a man’s honour. My year of reading African women, by Gary Younge 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Measuring fecundity or survival, for example, takes years and thus requires long-term funding and commitment. Prepare river ecosystems for an uncertain future 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z “The day we put the clay ramps in, the fecundity exploded,” Dr. Gwiazdowski said. Puritan Tiger Beetles, ‘Vicious Predators,’ May Soon Hunt Again 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z To get an idea of the sheer fecundity of oceans without people, we can only rely on eye-witness accounts and a few grainy black and white films. Dead kittiwakes, dwindling fish and oceans of plastic: my voyage of discovery 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z “For those sweating, leaking, reeking, dreaming travelers in the hyper-arid Middle East, the desert promised asylum — both from garden England and from their own body and its cursed fecundity and importuning, its uncleanness.” Review | Burning Man is just one of the many strange wonders of desert life 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z There remains widespread questions about the technology’s actual fecundity in a real-world setting. Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Their bodies then draw on fat reserves, which are laced with chemicals that suppress their immune system and reduce fecundity. Orcas of the Pacific Northwest Are Starving and Disappearing 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z A couple of generations of philosophers lived off the fecundity of Putnam's mind--and were perplexed by his willingness to change it. Why Does Jim Holt Exist? 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z He adds, “The Chinese are severely punished for the fecundity by the insensitive economic machine.” Einstein the Anti-Racist? Not in His Travel Diaries 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Guided by the phases of the moon, and with David Attenborough providing discreet and tasteful narration, the garden of corals simultaneously released clouds of eggs and sperm, in the world’s most profligate display of fecundity. How Justin Trudeau and Jerry Brown Can Help Save the Great Barrier Reef 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Peaches represent fecundity in Asia, as well as Moon’s now-home of Georgia. Review | Asia shapes two art shows at the AU Museum 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z The production of sub-optimal progeny by young mothers may reflect a trade-off between the competing fitness traits of a short generation time and the survival and fecundity of the progeny. Maternal age generates phenotypic variation in Caenorhabditis elegans 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The author, who will celebrate his 70th birthday this year, has exceptional creative fecundity: he has written more than 60 novels and hundreds of short stories. Why Stephen King’s novels still resonate 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Sometimes, a lack of hybrid fitness is obvious in the health or fecundity of the hybrids in question, or in the reduced numbers that are born of unions between two purebreds. How species originate 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z The fatal conceit — fatal to the fecundity of spontaneous order — is the belief that anyone, or any group of savants, is clever and farsighted enough to forecast the outcomes of complex systems. Opinion | Let America plunge toward our fast-unfolding future 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z The scientists did not find any association between the size of their brains and longevity, fecundity, or lifetime reproductive success—perhaps because males grow antlers, which limits the size of their skulls. Female red deer with big brains have it all 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Heavier drinking — the equivalent of two bottles of wine or more a week — was associated with an 18 percent decrease in fecundity, although that finding was only barely statistically significant. Moderate Drinking Does Not Affect Fertility 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Perhaps because of her abundant gifts — the metaphorical fecundity, the dash and brio of her cadences — Ozick is ever vigilant against the temptation of mere aestheticism. Cynthia Ozick’s Long Crusade 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z This means that there will probably be a fecundity of facial hair on your next flight – not all of which will be fundamentalist. How to spot a terrorist on your flight | Arwa Mahdawi 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Where the Easter Bunny fits remains mysterious, though rabbits’ reproductive capacity makes them, like Olive and George Osmond, folkloric symbols of fecundity. Out of the mouths of babes, real religious truth | Stewart Lee 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z In 1966, two big changes had happened - Dylan had crashed his Triumph Tiger motorbike, bringing to an end an unsustainable period of experimental fecundity, and he had become a father. Smashed Hits: Forever Young - BBC News 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Skirting the edge of the DG, en route from Singapore to Manila, the variety of sea life we encountered was testament to its fecundity. Obama Calls on Beijing to Stop Construction in South China Sea 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Beyond freedom’s valuable fecundity in producing unequal social outcomes, four other facets of today’s America fuel inequality. What Bernie Sanders doesn’t understand about economic equality 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Recently, the impersonal fecundity of Google Alerts spat into my email inbox the news that a new oil painting of David Foster Wallace was for sale. Why David Foster Wallace should not be worshipped as a secular saint 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z When Mr. Wetzel, a native Washingtonian, moved to Lummi after three years of cooking at Noma in Copenhagen, he was blown away by the wild fecundity of the island and its surrounding waters. At Home, Chef Blaine Wetzel Keeps It Real—And Really Simple 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Differences in chemical modifications of the two species' DNA seem to account for the superior size and fecundity, the group reports. Crayfish create a new species of female 'superclones' 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z The future health of Yellowstone’s bear population rests in large part on the fecundity of females like this one, with her cub. When a Bear Kills, Who Decides Its Fate? 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Since this discovery, researchers have been working to determine how sperm microRNA may be related to a man’s fecundity. Sequencing the RNA of sperm may better diagnose a man's infertility 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Their incredible fecundity would finally be thwarted, and after several generations, a horde of bachelor rats would fight amongst themselves, dwindle, and disappear. On the front lines of humanity’s high-tech, global war on rats 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z If Frank had his way, they would have also changed the way people raised children, especially after their incredible fecundity produced 12 kids. These Are 30 of the Best Parents in Literature 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z This bottle was full of that deep, dark mystery, that smoky fecundity great Syrah/Shiraz acquires with age. Is This The Best Oz Wine Ever? 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, are not as important as a wild and healthy planet. A Humanist Approach to Environmental Issues 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The turnover is itself evidence of the city’s fecundity, even if the Silent Barn is trying to escape a similar fate. They Say Art Is Dead in New York. They’re Wrong. 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z The theory of evolution tells us that the goal of the game is fecundity—the organism that passes along the most genetic material is the organism who wins. How Darwin Destroyed The Wolf Of Wall Street: The Evolutionary Story Hidden Inside Flash Boys 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z This is a country where many people entertain a widespread conspiracy theory that vaccinating for polio is a Western plot to curb Muslim fecundity. Pariah state 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z Apart from courtship displays, many other factors– such as female fecundity, or male aggression of females – influence mate choice. A Glimpse Into the Sexual Lives of Chimpanzees 2014-01-04T22:45:03.468Z A large doll often presented to the birthday girl is also said to be Puerto Rican, signalling either the end of childhood or the fecundity of the teenager on show. Lexington: The power of a party 2013-08-01T15:03:34Z Technological change might drive wages above subsistence levels, but only temporarily because the fecundity of the poor would soon drive wages back down. Free exchange: Penury portrait 2013-07-25T14:59:44Z The second major strategy for fecundity is Kinship Selection, or what’s sometimes called inclusive fitness. How Darwin Destroyed The Wolf Of Wall Street: The Evolutionary Story Hidden Inside Flash Boys 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z These are all considered pretty good proxies of fecundity, and thus also by extension fertility. 5 Ways to Make Progress in Evolutionary Psychology: Smash, Not Match, Stereotypes 2013-02-11T14:15:02.277Z The hunting prowess and fecundity that made 832F a fan favorite also stirred animosity among the many people who want to see fewer wolves in the northern Rockies. Green Blog: Mourning an Alpha Female 2012-12-10T12:15:16Z “The fecundity of a couple does of course depend on biological factors like sperm quality and the woman’s fertility,” says Le Moal. The Case of the Missing Sperm 2012-12-08T09:45:00Z Arakanese went out of their way to tell me how much they despised the Bengalis, who they accused of invading their land and waging a war of fecundity. Will Ethnic Violence Kill Burma's Fragile Reforms? 2012-06-11T22:05:41Z And other investigators estimate that the fecundity of mental defectives in general is about twice as great as that of the average of our population. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z In spreading over the land, the water carried with it a quantity of rich alluvial earth, which gave fecundity to the country on which it was deposited. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z The fecundity, or the chance it has of being followed by sensations of the same kind, that is, pleasures, if it be a pleasure; pains, if it be a pain. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z And the worship of the implements of fecundity continues popular in India to this day. The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices 2012-04-11T02:00:31.327Z As far as could be determined from the small sample of males examined, their fecundity was not affected by rainfall. A Population Study of the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) in Northeastern Kansas 2012-04-08T02:00:23.123Z Great fecundity had been promised to the race; but instead of that there had been a remarkable and perplexing barrenness, so that after two centuries one tent could contain the whole male population. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z But fecundity of mind has, of course, its disadvantages: the unexpected cannot happen without causing distractions to all concerned. Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work 2012-04-06T02:00:32.097Z If we then look at the Church, we find her displaying such fecundity and power as we shall hardly find at any other period in her history. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Damascius, treating of the fecundity of the divine nature, cites Orpheus as teaching that the Deity was at once both male and female, to show the generative power by which all things were formed. The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices 2012-04-11T02:00:31.327Z Thus any depression in the reproductive rate was due to loss of fecundity by females. A Population Study of the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) in Northeastern Kansas 2012-04-08T02:00:23.123Z With all her marvellous fecundity, she has hardly ever given to the world any work which does not seem at least to have been the subject of the most elaborate and patient care. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Just because it presents so widely divergent conceptions of what the gospel is, it gives promise of perennial fecundity. The Making of the New Testament 2012-03-30T02:00:20.917Z Various trees and plants are suggestive of fertility and fecundity in man. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z It was a symbol of the sun, and, derivatively, of fecundity. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z There is less offal; the flesh is finer, although the size is greatly increased; their fecundity is greater; and the offspring arrive earlier at maturity than in the common Malay variety. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z M. Florian-Parmentier is a native of Valenciennes, a writer whose versatility and fecundity are noteworthy in a far from barren literary epoch. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The mortality in a population appears to be always proportionate to its fecundity—as the number of births increases, so does the number of deaths at the same time. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z They had the emblematic hare also, which always denotes fecundity, and many other emblems not to be mentioned in polite society. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Just as Ceres symbolized the fecundity of the earth in the matter of cereals, so Pan was the emblem by which was figured its productiveness of animal life. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z Some think that a quiet lake is more to their taste than a rapid running stream, and more conducive to the fecundity of their eggs. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z It is owing, no doubt, to fecundity, and to an abundance of food that the Guira Cuckoo is able to maintain its existence so far south in spite of its terrible enemy the cold. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z Still more astonishing than our past fecundity in invention would be future barrenness. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z Their early chronicles speak with rapture of the hay that could be mown three times a year, and the amazing fecundity of the corn-land. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Some ideas, some plays, some traditions, have an astonishing fecundity; other stocks, procreative for a while, soon turn barren. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Climate has a great influence in this respect; and their lodging and food, as well as the care bestowed upon them, have more or less effect in promoting or obstructing their fecundity. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z “If such be life, it is better for future generations, too, not to live,” says the indulgent healing art, and invents means to destroy women's fecundity. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z The moderns have given unequivocal proofs of their fecundity in the same line, and the anagrammatic labours of the French nation alone would form several volumes. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 100, September 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-25T03:00:37.190Z By a singular permutation the flower borne by each, the lotus—ancient emblem of the sun and fecundity—now re-named the lily, is interpreted as significant of the opposing quality. Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other 2012-01-05T03:00:28.663Z "Most alarming," Brandt writes, was its declaration in 1934 that "Germany is perhaps the most progressive nation in restricting fecundity among its unfit." New England Journal: 200 years of medical history 2012-01-04T22:12:38Z As to the number of eggs, the varieties which possess the greatest fecundity are the Shanghaes, Guelderlands, Dorkings, Polish, and Spanish. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z Their fecundity is wonderful, excelling that of any other duck. Natural and Artificial Duck Culture 2012-01-04T03:00:33.923Z The periodical crises in which it seems as if it must perish, renew its traditions and its forms, and, so far from proving its weakness, demonstrate its fecundity and its faculty of rejuvenescence. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z The whole is a covert emblem of that union which results in fecundity. Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other 2012-01-05T03:00:28.663Z So heavily do I let the hoofs Trample the deeps of me; For only thus is spirit Brought to fecundity. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z It is, however, probable that fecundity depends also on the boar; he should, therefore, be chosen from a race which multiplies quickly. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z I have always emphasized the point that size as well as fecundity is a necessary adjunct to a profitable market bird. Natural and Artificial Duck Culture 2012-01-04T03:00:33.923Z In regions where the heat is greatest and the other conditions favourable, plants which elsewhere are stunted attain their richest development and their greatest fecundity. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z The fecundity of the division, "relations specified," is lower than that of any of the four groups, and the vitality of their progeny is greatly inferior to any of the other classes. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z The two-year study tracked 4,370 trees and an additional 2,228 seedlings, studying their growth rates, fecundity and reproduction rates. Bad News for Christmas: Frankincense Faces Uncertain Future 2011-12-21T23:45:08.087Z There is this mischief in Cruikshank's fecundity, that it tends to convert even a fairly bright critic into a scolytus boring his way through a catalogue. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z That Gingrich now tops the polls is a tribute to his perseverance, and to Republicans’ admiration for his intellectual fecundity.” The Caucus: The National Review Makes Its Case Against Gingrich 2011-12-15T02:04:11Z The artist, while not deviating from the narrow circle traced for him by the poet, shows a fecundity and variety that are truly marvellous—that astonish and enchant us at the same time. The Odes of Anacreon 2011-12-08T03:00:29.763Z It will thus be seen that as regards fecundity, concubitant marriages are greatly superior to any of the other classes. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z And if one of two things must happen—either the destruction of fecundity or the destruction of life—which of the two is the greater evil? Fruits of Philosophy A Treatise on the Population Question 2011-12-03T03:00:10.910Z Here we may notice that the fecundity which damsels of old were wont to refer to a god or some inferior, but yet beneficent, deity, more modern christian girls have associated with a demon. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z Naked mole rats show negligible senescence, no age-related increase in mortality, and high fecundity until death. Genome sequencing reveals insights into physiology and longevity of the naked mole rat 2011-11-15T17:21:47.017Z The flowering-time of spiritual joy and beauty is as nothing in its value for life compared with this still autumnal period of true fecundity, in which man is at last ‘affirmed’ in the spiritual life. Ruysbroeck 2011-10-29T02:00:16.413Z The nervous system of the Fijian is curiously contradictory, and it is at least probable that the premature excitement of the sexual instinct in the women has an injurious effect upon their fecundity. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z With all these mixtures there is a profound characteristic, which constitutes the unity, identity, and reality of the species, which is, continuous fecundity; and this characteristic never varies: it is immutable. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z Let A and B be two intergenerating groups in which segregate fecundity is first beginning. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection 2011-10-18T02:00:18.363Z As amongst that nation fecundity is a blessing specially promised by the Omnipotent, so it is thought proper to use human means for ensuring the blessing on the day set apart by the Almighty. Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, 2011-10-13T02:00:41.150Z Again, the dual property of love, possession and action, satisfaction and fecundity, is to be manifested upon new levels. Ruysbroeck 2011-10-29T02:00:16.413Z Poor woman! such is the condition of life, some die, and some are born, and I shall now make some reparation for the mortality of my patients by the fecundity of my wife. Three Hours after Marriage 2011-10-10T02:00:20.823Z Nature regulates the fecundity of animals and human beings when society neglects it. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z The Aphides have more numerous, more active, and more inveterate enemies than insects of any other group—these are the means by which their wonderful fecundity is kept in check. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z It is also the best for putting in relief his universal aptitude and his marvellous fecundity. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z The decreased fecundity of women during the war even under good material conditions apparently shows that war’s psychological reflexes tend to induce sterility. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z Boughs of oak with acorns were carried in marriage ceremonies, as emblems of fecundity. Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship 2011-09-12T02:00:27.807Z Its character, its growth, fecundity, or barrenness, depends upon elementary principles of far greater importance. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z At all times the tread of those coming millions of human beings, which the family fecundity of America made certain, sounded majestically in his ears. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z There is no disputing also that he is a novelist of most extraordinary fecundity and force. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z Negro fecundity is a prime factor in Africa’s future. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z His first wife, who was of the persuasion of the Plymouth Brethren, had little sympathy with his boldness and fecundity of thought. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z It is of great force, and I therefore reserved it for the last—the facility with which the different branches of the human family produce hybrids, and the fecundity of these hybrids themselves. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z In all of them the fish denoted "preservation," "fecundity," "plenty," and "diffusion of knowledge." Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained 2011-07-11T02:00:07.857Z It is difficult to assign limits to the fecundity of writer, and to fix the number of lines that he shall write in a given time. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z Since the establishment of white political control, however, these checks on black fecundity are no longer operative. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z One of our camel-drivers, especially, had been endowed by Heaven with an imagination of extraordinary fecundity. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z In this pasture there was a high concentration of prairie voles, and the percentage of fecundity was much higher than in Douglas County at the same time. Natural History of the Prairie Vole (Mammalian Genus Microtus) [KU. Vol. 1 No. 7] 2011-06-01T02:00:28.617Z He has the fire, the enthusiasm, the fecundity of genius. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z The implication of this latter point is that those species with higher Ḣb's also have faster rates of development and greater fecundity and hence enjoy the competitive advantage of a higher rmax. Metabolic Adaptation to Climate and Distribution of the Raccoon Procyon Lotor and Other Procyonidae 2011-05-07T02:00:34.980Z To it, again, is due his extreme fecundity, the negro being the quickest of breeders. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z The cottonwood was found growing over a widely extended range, under diverse climatic conditions, appearing always self-reliant, showing prodigious fecundity, and having wonderful means of propagation. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:17.413Z Reproduction reached its height in March when fecundity for the females and males was 77 per cent and 100 per cent respectively. Natural History of the Prairie Vole (Mammalian Genus Microtus) [KU. Vol. 1 No. 7] 2011-06-01T02:00:28.617Z Each superior degree of organic evolution is accompanied by an inferior degree of fecundity. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z All this, again, leads to the inquiry, by what arts of agricultural skill and industry, aiding the luxuriant soil, it had reached such unexampled fecundity. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z GALLUP: Assertions that evolutionary psychologists know nothing about heritability and fail to relate their findings to survival and fecundity are naïve and unfounded. Homophobia Phobia: Bad Science or Bad Science Comprehension? 2011-03-22T12:45:05.917Z Its dominance is due to its great fecundity and its ability to adapt itself to all sorts of surroundings. House Rats and Mice Farmers' Bulletin 896 2011-03-12T03:00:26.220Z Throughout the winter of 1945-'46, at Lawrence, the majority of males were fecund; but fecundity in the females was much less, and in January, no females showed signs of reproductive activity. Natural History of the Prairie Vole (Mammalian Genus Microtus) [KU. Vol. 1 No. 7] 2011-06-01T02:00:28.617Z The climate of the United States exercises, according to certain sociologists, on the first generation of European immigrants, a deleterious influence in regard to fecundity. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Health, strength, and fecundity is to this very day the mark of the Belgian people in town and country. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z Sink or swim, prodigies seem to speak to something vital, a football-centred sense of enduing national fecundity, of great, untapped footballer-pockets still walled beneath the granite slopes. Enjoying the fleeting thrill of fragile prodigies is a national habit 2011-02-19T00:07:01Z Doctrines stand to principles, if it may be said without fancifulness, as fecundity viewed relatively to generation, though this analogy must not be strained. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z This record of itself clearly indicates a failing fecundity in the Blacks; the younger, the fewer, comparatively. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z A seemingly fair test of the influence of the climate would be a race elsewhere fecund, and whose religion encourages fecundity, decreasing in the first generation after immigration to the United States. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The gurnet was rejected because of its fecundity as witnessed in its annual triple laying of eggs, but, according to some writers, it was rejected because it ate a fish which was poisonous to mankind. The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites 2011-01-28T03:00:23.447Z The project connected farmers, scientists and the Grassland Development Centre at Aberystwyth University to make profitable use of sheep carrying the fecundity gene, which results in more lambs per ewe. Sparking profits 2011-01-07T00:20:22Z I looked down at my breasts, and they looked awfully small, whereas Melissa’s were enormous, dripping with fecundity, like a relic of a fertility goddess. Meet the Twiblings 2010-12-31T05:00:12Z There is nothing in the history of the Negro to suggest great fecundity. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z Wallace accounts by the hard life the women lead and their consequent slight fecundity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z And a keen intellectual and æsthetic joy in the glorious fecundity and loveliness of nature was everywhere present to Darwin's mind. Charles Darwin 2010-12-24T03:00:33.847Z According to the TSB, 4,500 extra lambs were produced for sale in 2010 as a result of the scheme and there are now 5,500 females with improved fecundity. Sparking profits 2011-01-07T00:20:22Z Dunham learned from the data that cyclones making landfall have a direct negative effect on the fecundity—or potential reproductive capacity—of lemurs. A Rainforest Revelation 2010-12-23T16:07:00Z A longstanding victim of change is the old profession of the devadasis, the temple courtesans once honored as divine bearers of fecundity. Book Review - Nine Lives - In Search of the Sacred in Modern India - By William Dalrymple 2010-07-16T18:18:00Z His prediction for the rest of the century: “Prosperity spreads, technology progresses, poverty declines, disease retreats, fecundity falls, happiness increases, violence atrophies, freedom grows, knowledge flourishes, the environment improves and wilderness expands.” Findings: Doomsayers Beware, a Bright Future Beckons 2010-05-17T22:33:00Z Nor will you marvel at symbols of my fecundity. Complaint Box | Car Decals 2010-03-19T21:09:00Z They set out to discover whether female competition accounted for these impressive armaments, and whether there was a trade-off between horns and fecundity. Sexual selection: Horny ladies 2010-03-04T11:17:00Z Men seem to have adopted the mythologies of every race, and to have superadded a new mythology of positively boundless fecundity. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius But in the popular mind they represented, probably at all times and certainly in later Christian times, not intellectual powers, but those associated with the fecundity of earth. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race Moreover, it makes up for any lack of fecundity by its superior hardiness and ease of management. Fur Farming A book of Information about Fur Bearing Animals, Enclosures, Habits, Care, etc. The horizon has been widened; ideas of great fecundity struck out; imagination quickened; a sense of the meaning of things created. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude The larger beasts of prey are not met with, and little check is therefore put on the natural fecundity of the graminivorous species. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" The East particularly attracted him by its infinite fecundity of superstition. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius His fecundity is astonishing, and the amount of his published work fills many volumes. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 The former fought to assert the freedom of love with its uncertain fecundity; the second, for its prudent regulation. Underground Man His melodic fecundity is all the more remarkable because of his strong originality. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists Bettinelli, a man not destitute of parts, fecundity, and eloquence, began by preaching to our youth that it was a prejudice to stand at gaze and slumber over our old authors. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second The persons of the two kings are described at large, with great strength and fecundity of painting. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 The fecundity of the Russians is something elsewhere unequalled; still the inhabitants average but about fifteen to the square mile, while Germany has nearly eighty, and England a hundred and fourteen. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia For many centuries it has lived separated, so to say, from its children, the living creatures it produced outside during its period of fecundity before the cooling of its crust! Underground Man Not even the universal atmosphere of fecundity which pervaded the farm could make this fact a whit more ordinary. Carnival That great natural feature of Egypt, the Nile, was of course one of the gods; his name was Hapi, and as a sign of his fecundity he had long pendulous breasts like a woman. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Poggio, with truly Rabelaisian irony, adds: "No baths in the world are more apt for the fecundity of women." Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) Everywhere in and about these edifices you see works of this class of art, in quantity bespeaking the fecundity of the artist’s chisel, but of a quality which says little for his taste. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] Her career, taken as a whole, is one of prodigious fecundity--a literary life that has "enchanted by its fictions or troubled by its dreams" four or five generations. Women of Modern France (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 7 (of 10) The realisation that he had now won for himself a permanent place in the literature of his land operated, however, rather injuriously upon the continued fecundity of his genius. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series No corporeal fecundity produces this race of virgins; they are no offspring of flesh and blood. Women of Early Christianity Since the palm tree is emblematic of both grace and fecundity, the significance of its use is apparent. Oriental Women All the trees were grubbed up, the forests disappeared from the hills, the prairies were cleared by means of fire, and the new cultivators set busily to work in exhausting the fecundity of the soil. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] Her brow is also crowned with a chaplet of vervain, gathered and wreathed by her own hands, for this herb signifies fecundity. Roman Women Their fecundity is internal, and known to few. The Intellectual Life When you live among them for three decades you find out about their cunning wariness, fecundity, secretiveness, boldness, omnivorous and voracious appetites. Brown John's Body The testimony of the best observers is to the effect that, in most tribes, women are not treated with excessive cruelty, which would be quickly fatal to the tribe in longevity, fecundity, and service. Oriental Women Tarahumari Indians, ceremonies typifying fecundity of earth, etc., compared with those of ancient Mexicans, 101. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations The Sun, which gives fecundity; the Earth, which nourishes; the Clouds, by turns beneficent and destructive,—such were the different powers of which they could make gods. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning What danger there was arose from this fecundity. Studies in Contemporary Biography For although warfare had long since vanished from our civilization as it had matured, it took with it Nature's own unpleasant balance for her overgenerous fecundity. The Women-Stealers of Thrayx Incantations and charms are frequently employed to induce fecundity. Oriental Women This fact of itself fully explains why the lotus flower was employed by the ancient Egyptians, as Mr. Goodyear states, as the “symbol of life, immortality and of renaissance and resurrection and of fecundity.” The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations I observe that it is the same month, Phamenot, that Osiris gave fecundity to Isis, according to the Egyptian theology. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning Within were dovecotes and cisterns, the emblems of fecundity, and a block of stone which she did not describe. Mary Magdalen These yearnings and desires, promptings of the "abysmal fecundity," have in man evolved into what is called "love." The Kempton-Wace Letters That chinchillas have not under such circumstances become rare, if not extinct, is owing to their extraordinary fecundity, the female usually producing five or six young twice a year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Zuñi, conception of Cosmos, Above, Below, Centre and Four Quarters, 41, 100; ceremonies typifying the fecundity of the earth, etc., The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations And then, besides diffuseness, our age has wonderful literary fecundity. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 Furthermore, Darwin established that certain wild animals, so soon as tamed, forfeit their fecundity. Woman under socialism The "abysmal fecundity" was stirred and life clamoured to be created. The Kempton-Wace Letters Around it, where teams had been fed and the overflow of water had run, little green forests of oats were springing, testifying to the fecundity of the soil, lighting unbelieving eyes with hope. Claim Number One Across the ocean, bridged at last by the indomitable pertinacity of art, the granaries of the new world call, in their inexhaustible fecundity for the iron and steel, the implements and engines of the old. A Modern Symposium Thanks to modern fecundity, critics rarely molest authors with demands for the raison d'être of a new book. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 That the nature of the food has its influence upon the composition of the male sperm, and upon the fecundity of the female egg with human beings also, is hardly to be doubted. Woman under socialism Beauty is the flowering of life and fecundity, and it must have deep root in the non-beautiful. Whitman A Study Now, all of a sudden, as it were, there was this forest of rank verdure, sprung with a kind of hideous rapidity, stifling, overpowering, productive with a teeming, incredible fecundity. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Such extraordinary fecundity is unknown to the rest of the world, except in the reign of romance. Bible Romances First Series The fecundity of his mind was extraordinary, and even more so his scientific prescience. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) The most varied theories have been set up on the fecundity of the human race. Woman under socialism The horns and hooves and the goat thighs were preserved; and the emblems of strength, fecundity and wisdom in the god became the emblems of bestiality and cunning in the demon. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) His forehead, large and open, like that of Diderot, indicated a vast and capacious mind; but his forehead having fewer sinuosities, less roundness than Diderot's, announced less warmth, less energy, and less fecundity of ideas. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." Their fecundity is exhausted with the plastic contents of the spore. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses Persecution and trial have but increased their fecundity. Christ, Christianity and the Bible The panorama includes besides the wilder grandeurs, economic scenes suggesting the fecundity of the earth and the industry of the husbandman. The Beauties of the State of Washington A Book for Tourists Nature in this land of ceaseless summer puts forth strange eagerness, ever running to fruits, flowers, and fragrance, as if they were outlets for her exuberant fecundity. Due South or Cuba Past and Present How is our Aryan race and its civilization to guard against the danger of being passively invaded and exterminated by the alarming fecundity of other human races? The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Wild grapes of extraordinary fecundity grow in the woods, and ascend in luxuriant clusters to the tops of the tallest trees. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 If it were not for this prodigious fecundity these species would have disappeared. The Industries of Animals The fecundity of the peons is beyond all calculation. Aztec Land What an exhaustless wealth does there lie in even the humblest fruitage and flowerage of language, and what a fecundity have even dry 'roots'! Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The fecundity of hybrids diminishes when they have connection among themselves, and this explains why the instinct for such connections tends to gradually disappear. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Luther's inexhaustible fecundity flowed with a steady stream, and the printing-presses in Germany and in the Free Towns of the Netherlands multiplied Testaments and tracts in hundreds of thousands. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. He has better faculties than I had imagined; more justness of discernment and more fecundity of images.' James Boswell Famous Scots Series It is certain that this fecundity was a very potent factor in the development of the Dutch School of painting. Six Centuries of Painting To the broadly generous side of his imagination it is impossible to pay exaggerated homage, or, indeed, for that matter, to its simple intensity and fecundity. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index Disorders of menstruation have much less influence on fecundity. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study I do not allude to their wonderful fecundity, which in a hundred years has raised their population from five to eighty millions of souls. Latin America and the United States Addresses by Elihu Root But he left his admirers no room to complain of diminished fecundity or of decaying vigor. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History But she was visibly impressed by this fecundity and riotous extravagance of genius. Ghetto Comedies She knew as a child what it was to live amidst storms of babies, in the heat and swelter of fecundity. The Rainbow It is important to know to what point fecundity and descent are influenced by the degree of relationship between the two procreators. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study We are astonished at his fecundity and readiness. The Life of Cicero Volume II. The prodigious fecundity of the author of a hundred volumes, the varied acquisitions of the philosopher, the historian, the satirist, the moralist, give diversity to his subjects, and an endless variety to his ideas. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 It cannot itself support travellers except upon a few limited points, and even there, such is the inexhaustible fecundity of nature, much remains to be done. Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 With Instructions for Collecting, Preparing, and Forwarding Objects of Natural History Written by The Professors Administrators of The Museum Of Natural History At Paris. And Instructions Relative to Anthropology and Zoology She had the potent, dark stream of her own blood, she had the glimmering core of fecundity, she had her mate, her complement, her sharer in fruition. The Rainbow In all lands under German influence a double power is more or less strongly at work: the creative power of the spirit ... and the creative power of the body, that is to say, fecundity.... Gems (?) of German Thought Mr. Pike, though he had frequently heard of the fecundity of these birds, had never given credit to it; but, he says, that the most fervid imagination cannot conceive their numbers. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe It is remarkable that planetary fecundity increases—at least so far outward as Saturn—with distance from the sun. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition There are very few cases of complete sterility or excessive fecundity amongst them. My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) He held her enclosed, soft, unutterably soft, and with the unrelaxing softness of fate, the relentless softness of fecundity. The Rainbow A Mr. Gordon relates the following singular instance of fecundity and early maturity in the Aberdeen Cattle. Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. If the Wolf may be justly proud of his jaws and the Antelope of his legs, I am sure that the Rabbit should very properly glory in his matchless fecundity. Wild Animals at Home Instinct is at fault here; and fecundity makes up for it. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Cattle are the riches of the country, and the splendid breed of Holland is unequalled in Europe for its beauty and fecundity. Holland, v. 1 (of 2) A turgid, teeming night, heavy with fecundity in which every molecule of matter grew big with increase, secretly urgent with fecund desire, seemed to come to pass. The Rainbow And, indeed, the fecundity of these countries is unparalleled. Principles Of Political Economy Bentham accepted it not only as true, but as expressing a truth of extraordinary fecundity, capable of guiding him through the whole labyrinth of political and legislative speculation. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. This perhaps explains why she is compelled to make up by her fecundity for her deficient industry. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles After the cessation of the black plague, a greater fecundity in women was everywhere remarkable; marriages were prolific; and double and treble births were more frequent than at other times. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 He had an amused pleasure in everything, a great sense of voluptuous richness in himself, and of the fecundity of the universal night he inhabited. The Rainbow The procession was led by four peasant women bearing trays of vegetables and fruits, symbols of fecundity, I assumed. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China But imagine the vineyards later, when the spring has stirred the earth with fecundity! The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia Eggs are the symbols of fecundity and the renewal of life in the spring. More Science From an Easy Chair In spite of his astonishing fecundity the young composer suffered signally from lack of recognition. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) They swarm like the spawn of cod-fish, with a vicious fecundity, that invites and requires destruction. Pearls of Thought I amputated both the antennæ of a female which had been several months the subject of observation, and being of great fecundity had already laid a considerable number of workers eggs, and those of males. New observations on the natural history of bees It is not necessary to demonstrate the fecundity of joy. Essay on the Creative Imagination Another of his names was Xiuhtecutli, which can be translated “God of the Green Leaf,” that is, of vegetable fecundity and productiveness.46-‡ Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History The ingenious M. Muret, again, had found a Swiss parish in which the mean life was the highest and the fecundity smallest known. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Well, there's a war on right now; a war against hunger, a war against the forces of fecundity. This Crowded Earth The old queen, which leads the first swarm in spring, requires no farther commerce with the males, for preservation of her fecundity. New observations on the natural history of bees It is that which is good for the fecundity of an artist's oeuvre, not nature and beauty. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais They are in general less distinguished for size, than for a fierce and spiteful disposition, combined with a great fecundity, which of course renders them exceedingly numerous and troublesome. The Boy Tar He piously conjectures that it may be a law of God that 'the force of life in each country should be in the inverse ratio of its fecundity.' The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill It is the broad difference between industry and inspiration, between fecundity and pregnancy, between Jonson and Shakspere. Montaigne and Shakspere It may be added, that the fecundity of the queen, whose history is given here, was astonishing. New observations on the natural history of bees Accordingly, it is difficult to suppose that the lunar elements can have remained inactive, when only next door they exhibited such fecundity upon our globe. Astronomy for Amateurs I would rather risk their fecundity, and hive the swarm, than to allow the bees to return to the parent stock, and wait eight or nine days for a young queen to mature. Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained Considering the very high quality of the work, the quantity is enormous, and makes us call to mind the remark of Goethe that “genius and fecundity are very closely allied.” Historical Essays Secondarily, on fecundity, the consequent probable multiplication of the like sensations; and purity, the improbability of consequent contrary sensations. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics It flourished in Maryland and Virginia, and later, from peculiar circumstances, it grew rank, with unexampled fecundity, in the Carolinas and Georgia. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Yet we may well imagine that Nature's fecundity can have engendered beings there of an organization different from our own, adapted to an existence in the proximity of fire. Astronomy for Amateurs Season of the Year.—The spring of the year, being more favorable to fecundity, exerts an influence over the increase of population. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 2 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies The fecundity of the survivors, however, keeps pace with the many fatalities to which they are liable. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Let the self-styled practical man look to those from the fecundity of whose thought be, and thousands like him, have sprung into existence. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Of large towns there seem to be, in Bohemia, very few; but every vale and strath is crowded with human dwellings, village succeeding village, and hamlet treading on hamlet, with the most remarkable fecundity. Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II Only the indomitable pluck of the Marquis and his deathless fecundity in conceiving new schemes of unexampled magnitude kept it alive at all. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Streams of books and pamphlets, numerous newspapers, and a solid periodical press, all attested the vigour and fecundity of the Tartar revival. The New World of Islam It respects the increase or diminution of fecundity; but I will write you more fully when we have quite established our facts. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch They refer her to the sturdy, strong-limbed women of early times, to the peasant women of northern Europe, who emigrate to America, and ask and expect their wives to rival them in fecundity. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother He had seen the bewildering fecundity of nature in the tropic jungle, and her barren and terrible beauty in the out-stretch of the naked desert. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance A marvelous example of Mr. De Morgan’s inexhaustible fecundity of invention.... The Squirrel-Cage The triangle is also an emblem of germination and of fecundity—the female, as the previously mentioned principle represents the male. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 We have already seen that it was Buffon's pleasure to consider the hare a rabbit for the time being, and to make it the text for a discourse upon fecundity. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin The spring of the year, as has already been stated, is the most favourable to fecundity. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother In facility of expression, in animation, in fecundity of mood, in fine improvisation, these pieces are truly incomparable. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. Previously to 1870 the race had been constantly decreasing in fecundity, but it was possible that the better conditions afforded by freedom had changed this. History of the United States, Volume 4 As an associate with summer, the butterfly is regarded as a beneficent being aside from its fecundity, and one of the ancient Hopi clans regarded it as their totem. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Set down in the midst of a teeming fecundity he nevertheless remained as truly a castaway as though he had floated ashore on a bit of wreckage. From Place to Place The age of the greatest safety in confinement therefore corresponds to the age of greatest fecundity. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother The emotionless disillusion of his nature had finally produced an adventure for him—the adventure of mental fecundity. Erik Dorn The first were the benevolent spirits that gave fecundity to plants and animals, serenity to nature, and knowledge to men. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism One of the most characteristic modern decorations employed by the Hopi, especially as a symbol of fecundity, is the butterfly or moth. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 But it has been clearly shown that as the age of marriage increases fecundity distinctly diminishes. The Task of Social Hygiene It has long been known that menstruation presents a group of phenomena closely allied to fecundity. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother He might curse the earth that would one day take his lifeless body, but he must know its immense fecundity. The Wind Bloweth The one represented the male, the other the female principle; they were the authors of all fecundity, and as a consequence the worship of the divine couple often assumed a sensual and voluptuous character. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Plato communicates something of genius, by the fecundity of his own; and Aristotle something of judgment and reason, by that impression of good sense which appears in all he says. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 And it is everywhere distinguished, first, by the adventurous fecundity of its experiments in form and kind, secondly, by the presence of that spirit which has been adumbrated in the last paragraph. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) As the ceremony of the livrées is the symbol of taking possession of the heart and home of the bride, that of the chou is the type of the fecundity of marriage. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 At a moderate computation she was allowed to have been the fruitful parent of three hundred pigs: a prodigious instance of fecundity in so large a quadruped! The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 But too many resplendent pigments, fruits of the fecundity of modern chemistry, have been found deficient. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists They developed a sort of intelligence, and because of their fecundity, adapted themselves to their environment as readily as did man; and for ages they threatened man's supremacy upon Titan. Spacehounds of IPC He is the personification of Ormuzd, representing fecundity and perpetual renovation. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Add to these facts the marvelous fecundity of the insect tribe, and the increase is less remarkable. Apple Growing Was that an indication that infant mortality rises with fecundity or was it one of many indications that the better-to-do have smaller families? The Family and it's Members Upon the spot where they met, nothing would ever grow afterwards, as their hot feet burnt all the fecundity out of the soil. The Necessity of Atheism Their immense and successful fecundity was imitated with less success by others, until the land was swamped with an annual flood of church-music books. A History of American Christianity Except for clothes-closets, screens and bed-curtains, Sterne must have gone out of the novel business, Sheridan have lost fecundity and Dryden starved in a garret. Journeys to Bagdad They got into the grain-mows, where they burrowed, and brought forth with a fecundity second only to the frogs of Egypt. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings Some ancient writers make most absurd statements with regard to the fecundity of females. Plain Facts for Old and Young The wearing of orange blossoms is said to have started with the Saracens, who regarded them as emblems of fecundity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Fecundal selection is said by them to be constantly tending to increase the reproductive rate, because fecundity is partly a matter of heredity, and the fecund parents leave more offspring with the same characteristic. Applied Eugenics But the originality and fecundity and inventiveness that he lacked, Strawinsky to great degree possesses. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers The hogs, unlike other pachyderms, are noted for their fecundity. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Unit, in the fecundity of the Ternary, forms the Quaternary, the Key of all numbers, 771-m. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The many theories advanced exceeded all the ordinary illustrations of literary fecundity and extravagance in the department of theology. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology The desirable characters were associated with each other, and also with fecundity. Applied Eugenics Into the shaping of your bad works of art there went a temperament, a playfulness, a fecundity, a capriciousness, a genius that many better artists have not possessed. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Anaxagoras was of opinion that animals and plants sprang from the earth by means of germs carried in the atmosphere which gave fecundity to the earth. Evolution An Investigation and a Critique An epoch, unsurpassed in its sublimity, its fecundity and duration by any previous Dispensation, and characterized, except for a short interval of three years, by half a century of continuous and progressive Revelation, had terminated. God Passes By The huts of the mountains and the hovels of the plains are the springs which feed; the fecundity of the races of the old world the inexhaustible source. Aliens or Americans? The desirable characters are still associated with each other, but their association with fecundity is now negative. Applied Eugenics Shall we hasten such a conflict by continuing to preach the sacredness of fecundity and of war? The Red Conspiracy Careless fecundity and deliberate restraint are sufficiently irreconcilable terms to apply to the same creations. Platform Monologues Considering the amount of work done, Lebrun showed great fecundity and industry, but none of it has much more than a mechanical ingenuity about it. A Text-Book of the History of Painting Upon these every man, either for himself or following in the track of his spiritual instructor, exercised his individual powers of interpretation, whose fecundity did not altogether depend upon the amount of historical knowledge. Alec Forbes of Howglen Its object is to restore the positive correlation between desirable characters and fecundity, on which the progressive evolution of the race depends. Applied Eugenics The feudalistic ones proclaim fecundity as a religious duty to God and a moral duty to the state. The Red Conspiracy In proportion as they had felt themselves alone on the road from Rome to Otricoli, they now felt themselves compassed about with the life, the fecundity, the gayety of the country. Life of St. Francis of Assisi In other words, race fecundity contains the germs of intellectual and national existence. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro He dwells on the fecundity of the literature of the Victorian Age in its middle period, and especially on the publications which adorned the decade from 1850 to 1859. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Obviously marriages with the women at 45 or over being sterile must not be counted where it is the fecundity of the marriage that is being studied. Applied Eugenics That girl, under a rough and unpromising exterior, has fecundity of ideas which astonishes me. Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel Now, Macaulay, however brilliant and kaleidoscopic, is always using his own vast reading, his own warm imagination, his unfailing fecundity, and his sterling good sense. Studies in Early Victorian Literature "The Church always finds in her wonderful fecundity wherewith to supply the new wants which arise in every distinct epoch of society." Life of Father Hecker However this may be, their peculiar form has served them well, since they have maintained themselves as fairly abundant species with a lower fecundity than is found in any other group of spiders. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. But sexual selection no longer has the importance that it once had, for nowadays the mere fact of marriage is not a measure of fecundity, to the extent that it once was. Applied Eugenics Instead the early Fortuna was a goddess of plenty and fertility, among mankind as a protectress of women and of childbirth, among the crops and the herds as a goddess of fertility and fecundity. The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome All who looked upon these pictures were amazed by the fecundity in invention and the skill shown in drawing; but the most telling criticism against them was their defect in coloring. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters The fecundity of the race is remarkable, they threaten to overwhelm the Saxons, whose numbers, on the other hand, are seriously on the decrease. Round About the Carpathians On the contrary, his earnest playfulness, the constant distraction of his attention from observation to daydreams, is the sign of an inward order and fecundity appropriate to his age. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion A diminution of stature, a depreciation of morality, an increase in gross fecundity, and a considerable lowering of the level of average natural ability are among other results that he considers probable. Applied Eugenics In that state fecundity would have been without lust. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Everywhere he was held in veneration, even by those who did not fully sympathize with his musical works, for his career had been one of great fecundity in art. Great Violinists And Pianists The fecundity of his intellect is shown in the fact that he produced four hundred and thirty works, out of which only eighty have been published. Great Italian and French Composers Its vast emptiness is more than full; its unashamed sterility is but the simile for unmeasured fecundity. The Black Pearl The effect of these various factors in the increasing cost of children is to decrease fecundity not so much on the basis of income of parents, as on the basis of their standards. Applied Eugenics His artistic fecundity threw them off in regal profusion. Rembrandt Her career, taken as a whole, is one of prodigious fecundity—a literary life that has "enchanted by its fictions or troubled by its dreams" four or five generations. Women of Modern France He still had both of them, together with a nice little bunch of cows that beat the world's records for fecundity. The Sheriff's Son Oswald and Corinne traversed the Pontine marshes—a country at once fertile and pestilential,—where, with all the fecundity of nature, a single habitation is not to be found. Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy Lessons on the fecundity of little things had indeed grown into commonplace household words. Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah I saw districts noted for their fecundity on the raw edge of famine, and a people proverbial for their light-heartedness who had forgotten how to smile. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 It is extremely amusing to detect the swarming fecundity of his pen; from year to year, with author after author, was this translator wearying others, but remained himself unwearied. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 It is certainly not true to say that the greater the fecundity of the people the stronger their sexual instinct, or the greater the sexual exercise. The Fertility of the Unfit It is not only to the fecundity of her mind that we ought to attribute it;" said he; "but to the deep emotion which every generous thought excites in her. Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy Is it there as the emblem of fecundity, as the pomegranate of Persia and Syria? Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850 Her other titles are "the lady of Bit-Ana," "the lady of Nipur," "the Queen of the land" or "of the lands," "the great lady," "the goddess of war and battle," and the "queen of fecundity." The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. The chief obstacles to early and happy marriage are financial, and these would largely disappear if women were able to control fecundity. Safe Marriage A Return to Sanity It would be quite illogical, and inconsistent with physiological facts, to aver that, were the poor less given to indulge the pleasures of sense, their fecundity would be modified in an appreciable degree. The Fertility of the Unfit Facility and fecundity may produce inequality, but, when a man of genius works, they are imbued with a raciness which the anxious diligence of inferior minds can never yield. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Its inhabitants—the countrymen of Washington and Franklin, of Adams and Jefferson—multiply, as he tells us, "with the fecundity of their own rattlesnakes." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 As a substantive deity, distinct from her husband, Gula's characteristics are that she presides over life and over fecundity. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. The control of fecundity and the control of infection are parallel problems, and generally speaking, the measures a woman takes to prevent conception will also prevent infection. Safe Marriage A Return to Sanity This is the most innocent and harmless of the numerous suggestions made by reformers for controlling the fecundity of the poor. The Fertility of the Unfit All this time the population was in a state of rapid progression, both from the daily influx of people from without, and from the amazing fecundity of the colonists within. Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America Luther's inexhaustible fecundity flowed with a steady stream, and the printing presses in Germany and in the Free Towns of the Netherlands, multiplied Testaments and tracts in hundreds of thousands. The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) Vul again, as the god of the atmosphere, gives the rain; and hence he is "the careful and beneficent chief," "the giver of abundance," "the lord of fecundity." The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. Birth-control applied only by the responsible classes of the community combined with indiscriminate fecundity among the irresponsible masses, must inevitably lead to the lowering of the general average in character, brains and physique. Safe Marriage A Return to Sanity Malthus believed that "moral restraint" would lessen the marriage rate, but would have no direct effect on the fecundity of marriage. The Fertility of the Unfit His fecundity, his mastery of language, his comprehension of character are gifts and abilities that certain of his contemporaries have in equal, or in some particulars in larger measure. H. G. Wells Who are those ever multiplying authors, that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick-succeeding progeny? A History of English Prose Fiction It can hardly be an accident that in this war the nations with a high birth-rate broke up in the order of their fecundity, while France stood like a rock. Outspoken Essays Among the enemies to fecundity and a natural destiny there are two which act as potently in the lower as in the upper classes: the triumph of individualism, the love of luxury. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls This is a striking instance of the fact that the decrease in the total birth-rate is due more to a decrease in the fecundity of marriage, than to a decrease of the marriage-rate. The Fertility of the Unfit The tree there bears fruit in four years after it has been planted, the following year still more, and increases in fecundity until the ninth or tenth year, when it is in full bearing. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. To form an estimate of the marvellous fecundity of the country and to realise its picturesqueness, one ought to visit the provinces in succession and spend a year in the exploration of each. The Awakening of China That any degree of parental attention is incompatible with the immense fecundity of the lower organisms needs no demonstration. Outspoken Essays The left hand grasps a fruit, the emblem of fecundity, while the right held a painted crown, the traces of which have now entirely disappeared. Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 But failure of food further north may have had more to do with those irruptions than any outburst of unusual fecundity. Draft of a Plan for Beginning Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador The great advantage of this latter consists in its superior fecundity. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. On the other side it is said, with equal vehemence, that the coloured people are mongrels, unfit to mingle with the pure parental breeds, and that this is proved by their excessive fecundity. The Black Man's Place in South Africa The American is nervous about the numbers of the negro; he has more reason to be nervous about the fecundity of the Slav and South Italian immigrant. Outspoken Essays This astounding increase was almost wholly due to the fecundity of the native stock. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making Political economists tell us that when population is greatly thinned by war, or pestilence, or famine, Nature hastens to fill up the void by the extraordinary fecundity of those who remain. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times By degrees, however, the fecundity improved, and in about twenty years became equal to what it is in Europe. Darwinism (1889) Within ten years Germany will contain seventy million inhabitants, and in the torrent of her fecundity will drown anemic and exhausted France.... The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Undoubtedly he gradually grew in power, richness of invention, fecundity of resource; but the change was one of degree, not of kind. Purcell This almost incredible increase was not due alone to the fecundity of the negro. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making None of them of either sex make monastic vows, but all marry and multiply, for thrifty living is a great promoter of fecundity. The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes Time, like a brilliant steed with seven rays, Full of fecundity, bears all things onward. Five Years of Theosophy Their mental virility and fecundity equalled that of any man that has attained an equal eminence in letters, and they would have died young and suffered much if they never had written a line. The Living Present It has had the qualities which overcome the hardest resistance: fecundity, courage and sure originality. The French Impressionists (1860-1900) He saw the broad beckoning banners of the pale tassels bursting out atop of the stalk, token of fecundity and of the future. The Mississippi Bubble Rabelaisian in fecundity, wit, and irrepressible sparkle, he is also of English blood and sinew, wedded to the sweet Sussex weald. Shandygaff The paternal purse was closed, and perhaps not too early, for the improvidence of the tea-blender and Alice's fecundity were a gulf whose depth no munificence could have plumbed. Leonora In this very trait resides the sublime beauty of that state, its grandeur and its fecundity. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index His work, the fecundity of which is astonishing, is unequal. The French Impressionists (1860-1900) Mr. Seward has always possessed that varied fecundity of expression for which Mr. Webster was admired. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The woman who indulges in it approximates to the male in her attributes; this is marked in diminished sexual intensity, and in increased difficulty of childbirth, with, in time, lessened fecundity. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society They will go directly on to the southward," replied Swinton; "the migration of these animals is one of the most remarkable proofs of the fecundity of animal life. The Mission Give them a semblance of a fair show, and they will live and breed with surprising fecundity and persistence. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation His exceptional fecundity only helps to give more authority to his pencil. The French Impressionists (1860-1900) Banquets were given in his honour, the bar extolled him, and the large body of his personal friends were triumphant at this new proof of his fecundity and his power over the minds of men. The Conqueror Produced at a more mature period, and under certainly different circumstances, it confirms, honours indeed, the fecundity of the age of its inception, namely, the era of British Æstheticism. Original Letters and Biographic Epitomes See wealth. rich man. nabob, Crœoeus, Dives, plutocrat, millionaire. richness, n. opulence, wealth, affluence; abundance, profusion; luxuriance, sumptuousness, costliness, elegance, fertility, fecundity. Putnam's Word Book The fecundity of the people of reason is extreme. What I Saw in California These appeals came in every form that Field's fecundity could invent. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 It seemed to him that the fecundity of homosexuals in the meaningful production of ideas came about from not lodging a foundation of family within the sturdy earth. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America A remarkable instance of fecundity in a female goat occurred at the house of one of the superintendants at Sydney. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc. of The Native Inhabitants of That Country. to Which Are Added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; Compiled, By Permission, From The Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King. Associated words: beget, prolific, fecundity, procreation, fetus, brood, generation, fetiferous, pregnant, pregnancy. younger, a. junior. youngest born. Putnam's Word Book Because we may then choose the most vigorous plants, which naturally prove of greater fecundity. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 540, March 31, 1832 Jamaica lies still farther to the south and is a prosperous, fertile island, of exceptional fecundity, in which, however, there does not exist a single mountain. De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera Animals are the riches of the country; that magnificent race of cattle which has no rival in Europe for fecundity and beauty. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 He wrote hardly ten songs a year at the time of his greatest fecundity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 To which must be added the people's frugal habits, the easy morals, the effect of climate, and the fecundity of the women of all mixed races. The History of Puerto Rico From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation Here in all verity was "the eternal feminine," fugitive, provocative, unspiritualized, and shrinking the one quality, fecundity, which could have justified it. The Precipice Usually," resumed Scrofa, "the fecundity of a sow may be learned from her first litter, for in later litters she does not vary much from the number of pigs in the first. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro The fecundity of these insects is surprising; and, to return to our fighting termites, it has been proved that a female deposits as much as sixty thousand eggs in a day! Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen Why had Nature, who so often refuses fecundity to the strong, shown herself prodigal to the loveless union of a dying consumptive? The Shadow of the Cathedral The fecundity of the women is notable; from six to ten children in a family seems to be the normal number. The History of Puerto Rico From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation The fecundity with which these ecclesiastical buildings multiplied and replenished England and Scotland is a marvel, considering the age in which they were erected and the small population and the poverty of the country. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's A hen should not be allowed to set on more than twenty-five eggs, although such is her fecundity that she lays more than that in a season. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro Soft pictured on the valley's verdant meadows Dark cypress trees reflect their slender shadows; Earth's bosom blooming in fecundity— And freedom here man's joyful destiny. Russian Lyrics It was not only in religious questions and by their philosopho- theologians that the middle ages, before the Renaissance, displayed their activity and fecundity. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 Baal-peor was, he says, the sun exercising his powers of fecundity.—Connection of Sacred and Profane History 80. The Symbolism of Freemasonry |
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