Crossword-Solution: ZOOLOGIC 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

Modern zoologic science explodes the popular fallacy that chameleons assume, and reflect at will, the color of the substance on which they rest or feed; but, with a profound salaam to savants, it is respectfully submitted that the mental saurian--human thought--certainly takes its changing hues, day by day, from the books through which it crawls devouringly.

Fundamentally, life manifests itself in all grades of the zoologic hierarchy as a union of Volition (or what appears in action as Volition) with some particular point in the universe of physical Energy, the union constituting what we call a living organism.

And horses in the phylo-genetic line are more ancient than dogs: they are lower in the zoologic scale.

Then, suddenly,--that is, suddenly in zoologic sense--both completely died out in their ancient home, and the horses in South America also, whereas half a dozen very distinct species are still found in Asia and Africa.

The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to new, but to the continuous evolution of zoologic types which develop ceaselessly and end by becoming unrecognizable to the common sight, but where an expert eye finds always traces of the prior work of the centuries past.