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... highest . XXV 10. The comparatively large bulk of some of the early Fossils is to be regarded as a mark of their inferiority in the scale xxvii 11. Variability of Species . xxviii 12. Answers to Objections : Mr. Hugh Miller . Professor ...
... highest . XXV 10. The comparatively large bulk of some of the early Fossils is to be regarded as a mark of their inferiority in the scale xxvii 11. Variability of Species . xxviii 12. Answers to Objections : Mr. Hugh Miller . Professor ...
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... highest telescopic power which the astronomer applied , and , from various considerations , he came to regard them ( it has since appeared , erroneously ) as masses of diffused luminous matter . In these he further discovered a variety ...
... highest telescopic power which the astronomer applied , and , from various considerations , he came to regard them ( it has since appeared , erroneously ) as masses of diffused luminous matter . In these he further discovered a variety ...
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... highest of our Andes . They are generally of extreme steepness , and sharp of outline , peculiarities which might be looked for in a planet deficient in meteoric agencies , such as those which operate so powerfully in wearing down ...
... highest of our Andes . They are generally of extreme steepness , and sharp of outline , peculiarities which might be looked for in a planet deficient in meteoric agencies , such as those which operate so powerfully in wearing down ...
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... highest reputation , seem disposed to admit that there is an azoic formation . Professor Sedgwick , for instance , considers the Skiddaw slates as nearly marking " the descending limit of organic life . " " Below them are other beds of ...
... highest reputation , seem disposed to admit that there is an azoic formation . Professor Sedgwick , for instance , considers the Skiddaw slates as nearly marking " the descending limit of organic life . " " Below them are other beds of ...
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... highest of the invertebrate FIG . 11 . FIG . 12 . Sepia officinalis , or Common Cuttle - fish . the chambers and the siphon . FIG . 13 . animals , as the nautilus ,. Shell of Nautilus pompilius , cut open to show Lituites cornu - arietis ...
... highest of the invertebrate FIG . 11 . FIG . 12 . Sepia officinalis , or Common Cuttle - fish . the chambers and the siphon . FIG . 13 . animals , as the nautilus ,. Shell of Nautilus pompilius , cut open to show Lituites cornu - arietis ...
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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...