Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers]. |
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... distinct parts , while the rings of Saturn , now believed to be three in number , are instances of zones still in their original state . A law presiding over the solar system , which may be said to constitute a fourth of the series of ...
... distinct parts , while the rings of Saturn , now believed to be three in number , are instances of zones still in their original state . A law presiding over the solar system , which may be said to constitute a fourth of the series of ...
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... distinct substances - quartz , felspar , mica , and hornblende ( each of which is , again , a combination of a certain number of the simple or elementary substances ) ; two of these , sometimes three , associated in various proportions ...
... distinct substances - quartz , felspar , mica , and hornblende ( each of which is , again , a combination of a certain number of the simple or elementary substances ) ; two of these , sometimes three , associated in various proportions ...
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... distinct . Under each period are reckoned certain systems , more or less organically distinct , and these we shall now proceed to treat separately . LOWER AND UPPER SILURIAN FORMATIONS- FIRST FORMS OF LIFE . It follows that the strata ...
... distinct . Under each period are reckoned certain systems , more or less organically distinct , and these we shall now proceed to treat separately . LOWER AND UPPER SILURIAN FORMATIONS- FIRST FORMS OF LIFE . It follows that the strata ...
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... distinct impressions of such plants , but Professor Forchhammer speaks of courses of true coal , composed , as he thinks , of sea - weed , and gives an opinion that the alum - slate of that country owes its It has been thought that ...
... distinct impressions of such plants , but Professor Forchhammer speaks of courses of true coal , composed , as he thinks , of sea - weed , and gives an opinion that the alum - slate of that country owes its It has been thought that ...
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... distinct species ; speaking strictly , out of about eight hundred so - called species of the Silurian epoch , one hundred pass into the Devonian formation , where , however , they gradually disappear , while new ones as gradually take ...
... distinct species ; speaking strictly , out of about eight hundred so - called species of the Silurian epoch , one hundred pass into the Devonian formation , where , however , they gradually disappear , while new ones as gradually take ...
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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...