"Testacea" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hoc solo, ergo propter hoc, which would in many cases supply a presumptive proof by induction, but cum hoc, et plurimis aliis, ergo propter hoc! Shell, of some kind or other, is common to the whole order of testacea, but it would be absurd to define the vis vitae of testaceous animals as existing in the shell, though we know it to be the constant accompaniment, and have every reason to believe the constant effect, of the specific life ...
— Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
