Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers]. |
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... evidence of the existence of other astral systems is much more decided than might be expected , when we consider that the nearest of them must needs be placed at a mighty interval beyond our own . The elder Herschel , directing his ...
... evidence of the existence of other astral systems is much more decided than might be expected , when we consider that the nearest of them must needs be placed at a mighty interval beyond our own . The elder Herschel , directing his ...
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... evidence . The stones have been seen to fall , and taken up in a still heated state ; -there can be no manner of doubt about the fact , although the explanation is extremely difficult . All these stones are found on examination to ...
... evidence . The stones have been seen to fall , and taken up in a still heated state ; -there can be no manner of doubt about the fact , although the explanation is extremely difficult . All these stones are found on examination to ...
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... evidences , in the phenomena of volcanoes and thermal springs , as well as in what is ascertained with regard to the density of the entire mass of the earth . This approximates five and a half times the weight of water ; but the actual ...
... evidences , in the phenomena of volcanoes and thermal springs , as well as in what is ascertained with regard to the density of the entire mass of the earth . This approximates five and a half times the weight of water ; but the actual ...
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... evidence of azoism is merely negative . But others , of the highest reputation , seem disposed to admit that there is an azoic formation . Professor Sedgwick , for instance , considers the Skiddaw slates as nearly marking " the ...
... evidence of azoism is merely negative . But others , of the highest reputation , seem disposed to admit that there is an azoic formation . Professor Sedgwick , for instance , considers the Skiddaw slates as nearly marking " the ...
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... evidence goes , we cannot but be sensible that the palæontology of the period indicates creation at a low stage - purely marine - desti- tute of fish , exhibiting families , generally speaking , low in their respective lines of ...
... evidence goes , we cannot but be sensible that the palæontology of the period indicates creation at a low stage - purely marine - desti- tute of fish , exhibiting families , generally speaking , low in their respective lines of ...
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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...