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... rock - forma- tions , he applied himself to the task of elucidating the Great Mystery , as it was frequently termed by men of science . He did not do so - as far as he knows himself , —in an irreverent spirit , or with a hostile design ...
... rock - forma- tions , he applied himself to the task of elucidating the Great Mystery , as it was frequently termed by men of science . He did not do so - as far as he knows himself , —in an irreverent spirit , or with a hostile design ...
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... rock - forma- tions , he applied himself to the task of elucidating the Great Mystery , as it was frequently termed by men of science . He did not do so - as far as he knows himself , —in an irreverent spirit , or with a hostile design ...
... rock - forma- tions , he applied himself to the task of elucidating the Great Mystery , as it was frequently termed by men of science . He did not do so - as far as he knows himself , —in an irreverent spirit , or with a hostile design ...
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... rocks - and it is utterly impossible in any way to reckon the benefits which light confers upon mind wherever it is allowed to enter . Assuming the legitimacy of such inquiries , and yet holding fast by the reverence which Created owes ...
... rocks - and it is utterly impossible in any way to reckon the benefits which light confers upon mind wherever it is allowed to enter . Assuming the legitimacy of such inquiries , and yet holding fast by the reverence which Created owes ...
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... rock in the crust of the earth . Hydrogen , which forms the remaining part of water , and enters into some minerals , is ... rocks , is another abundant elementary substance . So , also , is carbon , a small ingredient in the atmosphere ...
... rock in the crust of the earth . Hydrogen , which forms the remaining part of water , and enters into some minerals , is ... rocks , is another abundant elementary substance . So , also , is carbon , a small ingredient in the atmosphere ...
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... rocks , for example , that are not composed of at least two varieties of matter , each of which is again a compound of elementary substances . What is still more wonderful with respect to this principle of combination , all the ...
... rocks , for example , that are not composed of at least two varieties of matter , each of which is again a compound of elementary substances . What is still more wonderful with respect to this principle of combination , all the ...
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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...