Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers]. |
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... connected with it by its own peculiar tie . The resemblance is now perceived to be a true family likeness ; they are bound up in one chain - interwoven in one Since that time several other members of this community have been discovered ...
... connected with it by its own peculiar tie . The resemblance is now perceived to be a true family likeness ; they are bound up in one chain - interwoven in one Since that time several other members of this community have been discovered ...
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... connected with the density of the planets and the internal heat of the earth . Another rests in the curious phenomenon called the Zodiacal Light , an oblate luminosity surrounding the sun , and very con- spicuous in the twilights of ...
... connected with the density of the planets and the internal heat of the earth . Another rests in the curious phenomenon called the Zodiacal Light , an oblate luminosity surrounding the sun , and very con- spicuous in the twilights of ...
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... connected with the disc by a thin pellicle of oil ; which , however , on the disc being stopped , breaks and disappears , and the ring then becomes completely disengaged . The only observable difference between this ring and that of ...
... connected with the disc by a thin pellicle of oil ; which , however , on the disc being stopped , breaks and disappears , and the ring then becomes completely disengaged . The only observable difference between this ring and that of ...
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... connected in the manner which has been described , are we also to presume that the constitution of the whole is uniform ? -that is to say , do the whole consist of the same chemical elements ? What are elements ? This is a term applied ...
... connected in the manner which has been described , are we also to presume that the constitution of the whole is uniform ? -that is to say , do the whole consist of the same chemical elements ? What are elements ? This is a term applied ...
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... connecting link between the two great groups . Among the non - metallic elements , four- -viz . , oxygen , hydrogen , nitrogen , and chlorine , are permanently gaseous ; bromine is fluid at common temperatures ; and the remainder ( with ...
... connecting link between the two great groups . Among the non - metallic elements , four- -viz . , oxygen , hydrogen , nitrogen , and chlorine , are permanently gaseous ; bromine is fluid at common temperatures ; and the remainder ( with ...
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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...