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Robert Chambers. VESTIGES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION . OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION . TENTH EDITION ,
Robert Chambers. VESTIGES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION . OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION . TENTH EDITION ,
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Robert Chambers. OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION . TENTH EDITION , WITH EXTENSIVE ADDITIONS AND EMENDATIONS , And illustrated by numerous Engravings on Mood . MEDICIN LITERIE LONDON : JOHN CHURCHILL , PRINCES STREET , SOHO . MDCCCLIII ...
Robert Chambers. OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION . TENTH EDITION , WITH EXTENSIVE ADDITIONS AND EMENDATIONS , And illustrated by numerous Engravings on Mood . MEDICIN LITERIE LONDON : JOHN CHURCHILL , PRINCES STREET , SOHO . MDCCCLIII ...
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Robert Chambers. PREFACE ΤΟ THE TENTH EDITION . THE author of this work - a private person with limited opportunities of study - first had his attention attracted to the early history of animated nature , on becoming acquainted with an ...
Robert Chambers. PREFACE ΤΟ THE TENTH EDITION . THE author of this work - a private person with limited opportunities of study - first had his attention attracted to the early history of animated nature , on becoming acquainted with an ...
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admitted advance affinity Agassiz America amongst animal kingdom Annelides appear aquatic belemnites birds bivalve body brachiopods brain called carboniferous carnivorous cephalopoda character civilization cloth connexion creation cretaceous Crinoidea crustacea Devonian dicotyledons DISEASES distinct earth eocene example existence external fact faculties favour Fcap feet fishes formation fossils gasteropods genera genus geological globe grade habits herbivorous higher human hypothesis Ichthyosaur idea Illustrations inferior Infusoria insects instances invertebrate kind land language larvæ living mammæ mammalia manner marine matter Medical mental mind mode mollusks naturalists nature observed oolite organic origin peculiar phenomena plants portion Post 8vo present principle produced Professor race regard regions remarkable reptiles resemblance respect rocks saurian says Second Edition Sedgwick seen shells species stirps strata structure superior supposed surface tertiary thecodonts tion trace tribes Trilobites vegetable vertebrata vertebrate whole
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Page lx - Thus, the production of new forms, as shewn in the pages of the geological record, has never been anything more than a new stage of progress in gestation, an event as simply natural, and attended as little by any circumstances of a wonderful or startling kind, as the silent advance of an ordinary mother from one week to another of her pregnancy.
Page 329 - A law presupposes an agent, for it is only the mode according to which an agent proceeds: it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power, which are both distinct from itself, the law does nothing, is nothing. The expression, "the law of metallic nature...