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... course of animated nature , as revealed by the researches of the paleontologist ; were all in harmony with the idea , and could be reconciled to no other of a greatly different character . The author therefore em- braced the doctrine of ...
... course of animated nature , as revealed by the researches of the paleontologist ; were all in harmony with the idea , and could be reconciled to no other of a greatly different character . The author therefore em- braced the doctrine of ...
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... course , it was to be inferred that that star is farther removed than even this vast distance . In some others , on which the experiment has been tried , it was equally impossible to detect a parallax . We seemed thus to be left in a ...
... course , it was to be inferred that that star is farther removed than even this vast distance . In some others , on which the experiment has been tried , it was equally impossible to detect a parallax . We seemed thus to be left in a ...
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... course round the ring , from west to east , crossing and recrossing the middle of the annular circle . " Some stars will depart more , others less , from either side of the circum- ference of equilibrium , according to the places in ...
... course round the ring , from west to east , crossing and recrossing the middle of the annular circle . " Some stars will depart more , others less , from either side of the circum- ference of equilibrium , according to the places in ...
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... course be admitted that the process of the experiment was of a reverse kind , and attended , as far as M. Plateau's description informs us , by slightly various effects ; but the general reflection which it gives of Laplace's cosmogony ...
... course be admitted that the process of the experiment was of a reverse kind , and attended , as far as M. Plateau's description informs us , by slightly various effects ; but the general reflection which it gives of Laplace's cosmogony ...
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... course , an important ingredient . Aluminium , the metallic basis of alumina , a material which enters largely into many rocks , is another abundant elementary substance . So , also , is carbon , a small ingredient in the atmosphere ...
... course , an important ingredient . Aluminium , the metallic basis of alumina , a material which enters largely into many rocks , is another abundant elementary substance . So , also , is carbon , a small ingredient in the atmosphere ...
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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...