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Page vii
... give a recommendation to his ideas , and greatly disrelishing the turbid waters of con- troversy , he resolved , if possible , to speculate on this question as Vox et præterea nihil . The difficulties of the way were great , and the ...
... give a recommendation to his ideas , and greatly disrelishing the turbid waters of con- troversy , he resolved , if possible , to speculate on this question as Vox et præterea nihil . The difficulties of the way were great , and the ...
Page ix
... gives a direction to research . Professing adversaries write books in imitation of his , and , with the benefit of a few conces- sions to prejudice , contrive to obtain the favour denied to him . It is needless to say that the storm of ...
... gives a direction to research . Professing adversaries write books in imitation of his , and , with the benefit of a few conces- sions to prejudice , contrive to obtain the favour denied to him . It is needless to say that the storm of ...
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... give rise to a similar progeny of inferior masses . The result would be - Planets and Satellites ; each having an orbitual speed corresponding with that of the zone constituting it ; each obtaining a rotatory motion from the excess of ...
... give rise to a similar progeny of inferior masses . The result would be - Planets and Satellites ; each having an orbitual speed corresponding with that of the zone constituting it ; each obtaining a rotatory motion from the excess of ...
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... gives of Laplace's cosmogony is certainly such as to confer upon that theory a strong probability . To conclude this section of the great history . What we see is -a boundless multitude of bodies with vast empty spaces between . We know ...
... gives of Laplace's cosmogony is certainly such as to confer upon that theory a strong probability . To conclude this section of the great history . What we see is -a boundless multitude of bodies with vast empty spaces between . We know ...
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... gives us regarding the constituent materials of our globe , and their combinations . How infinitely is the knowledge increased in interest , when we consider the probability of such being the materials of the whole of the bodies of ...
... gives us regarding the constituent materials of our globe , and their combinations . How infinitely is the knowledge increased in interest , when we consider the probability of such being the materials of the whole of the bodies of ...
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admitted advance affinity Agassiz America amongst animal kingdom Annelides appear aquatic belemnites birds bivalve body brachiopods brain called carboniferous carnivorous cephalopoda character civilization cloth connexion creation cretaceous Crinoidea crustacea Devonian dicotyledons DISEASES distinct earth eocene example existence external fact faculties favour Fcap feet fishes formation fossils gasteropods genera genus geological globe grade habits herbivorous higher human hypothesis Ichthyosaur idea Illustrations inferior Infusoria insects instances invertebrate kind land language larvæ living mammæ mammalia manner marine matter Medical mental mind mode mollusks naturalists nature observed oolite organic origin peculiar phenomena plants portion Post 8vo present principle produced Professor race regard regions remarkable reptiles resemblance respect rocks saurian says Second Edition Sedgwick seen shells species stirps strata structure superior supposed surface tertiary thecodonts tion trace tribes Trilobites vegetable vertebrata vertebrate whole
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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...