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... Animal Kingdoms . 139 . Affinities and Geographical Distribution of Organisms . 185 Early History of Mankind . Mental Constitution of Animals 259 286 Purpose and General Condition of the Animated Creation . 306 PROOFS , ILLUSTRATIONS ...
... Animal Kingdoms . 139 . Affinities and Geographical Distribution of Organisms . 185 Early History of Mankind . Mental Constitution of Animals 259 286 Purpose and General Condition of the Animated Creation . 306 PROOFS , ILLUSTRATIONS ...
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... Animals 4. There are Species common to different Formations , and an unbroken Succession of Animal Life from the beginning to the present Epoch 5. The Lower Silurian Formation is the Record of an Era of Invertebrate Animals PAGE 111 iv ...
... Animals 4. There are Species common to different Formations , and an unbroken Succession of Animal Life from the beginning to the present Epoch 5. The Lower Silurian Formation is the Record of an Era of Invertebrate Animals PAGE 111 iv ...
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... animals , while others come to view ; at some points , the change is almost complete - at others , it is very considerable . Such demarcations are taken into account by geologists in the grouping of the rock series . They speak of a ...
... animals , while others come to view ; at some points , the change is almost complete - at others , it is very considerable . Such demarcations are taken into account by geologists in the grouping of the rock series . They speak of a ...
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... animal or vegetable life . " Sir Roderick Murchison , in like manner , believes he has found an azoic series in ... animals possessing soft parts only , totally unfit for preservation . Traces of life first appear in considerable ...
... animal or vegetable life . " Sir Roderick Murchison , in like manner , believes he has found an azoic series in ... animals possessing soft parts only , totally unfit for preservation . Traces of life first appear in considerable ...
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... animals which it contains must be pronounced humble , though it is not defi- cient in a class which stands high in the sub - kingdom to which it belongs . What constitutes high and low in animal organization ? An animal is said by ...
... animals which it contains must be pronounced humble , though it is not defi- cient in a class which stands high in the sub - kingdom to which it belongs . What constitutes high and low in animal organization ? An animal is said by ...
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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...