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... and its recurring uniformities . We have thus found all nature , organic and inorganic , to be harmoniously combined in mutual dependence ; the worlds of R. L. B matter and of life linked together by peculiar asso- ciations.
... and its recurring uniformities . We have thus found all nature , organic and inorganic , to be harmoniously combined in mutual dependence ; the worlds of R. L. B matter and of life linked together by peculiar asso- ciations.
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... matter , but every step we take in ac- cordance with sound reason and reverent feeling brings us nearer to a better understanding of the problem , and is a step in the right direction . Let us , then , bring into view the facts ...
... matter , but every step we take in ac- cordance with sound reason and reverent feeling brings us nearer to a better understanding of the problem , and is a step in the right direction . Let us , then , bring into view the facts ...
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... matter and life . Man , included in this whole , is endowed with the sacred and wonderful power of standing in some degree apart , so as to observe the course , investigate the laws , and measure and direct the inexhaustible powers ...
... matter and life . Man , included in this whole , is endowed with the sacred and wonderful power of standing in some degree apart , so as to observe the course , investigate the laws , and measure and direct the inexhaustible powers ...
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... matter which composes living bodies is capable of assuming the gaseous form , as Carbon , Hydrogen , Oxygen , Nitro ... matter is said to be known to us only by effects cognizable by our senses ; these effects are due to forces ; matter ...
... matter which composes living bodies is capable of assuming the gaseous form , as Carbon , Hydrogen , Oxygen , Nitro ... matter is said to be known to us only by effects cognizable by our senses ; these effects are due to forces ; matter ...
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... matter - adaptations to gravity , to force of wind , to depth of water , to degrees of light , to periodicity of seasons , and even to local and limited occurrences . Regard the eye which in its perfect state , as in man , is destined ...
... matter - adaptations to gravity , to force of wind , to depth of water , to degrees of light , to periodicity of seasons , and even to local and limited occurrences . Regard the eye which in its perfect state , as in man , is destined ...
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Page 202 - As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world.
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Page 203 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
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Page 202 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Page 201 - I formerly entertained, namely, that each species has been independently created, is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main, but not exclusive, means of modification.
Page 201 - I cannot doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same great class or kingdom. I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Page 203 - It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth...
Page 186 - The intermixture of distinct species is guarded against by the aversion of the individuals composing them to sexual union, or by the sterility of the mule offspring. It does not appear that true hybrid races have ever been perpetuated for several generations, even by the assistance of man; for the cases usually cited relate to the crossing of mules with individuals of pure species, and not to the intermixture of hybrid with hybrid.