Whale
animal · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
the whale · so great a beast · whale
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1 expressionin the texts
Stromata
The creature that swallowed Jonah, within which he prayed, an emblem of faith under distress.
he will pray, like Jonah, when swallowed by the whale;
Applied Eugenics
Animal whose vestigial hind legs are used as an example to explain organ degeneration through natural selection rather than inheritance of acquired disuse.
When an organ is no longer necessary, as the hind legs of a whale, for instance, natural selection no longer keeps it at the point of perfection.
The retrogression of the little toe in man is probably to be explained like the degeneration of the hind leg of the whale, as a result of the excess of deteriorating variations which, when not eliminated by natural selection, lead to atrophy.
De Oratione
The great fish (whale) that swallowed Jonah.
How then could the prayer of Jonah, from the depths of the whale's belly, through the bowels of so great a beast, from the very abysses, through so great a mass of sea, make its way out to heaven?