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... species . He was not acquainted with the works of St. Hilaire , but through such treatises on physiology as had fallen in his way , he was aware of some of the transcendental views of that science entertained both in France and England ...
... species . He was not acquainted with the works of St. Hilaire , but through such treatises on physiology as had fallen in his way , he was aware of some of the transcendental views of that science entertained both in France and England ...
Page vi
... species . He was not acquainted with the works of St. Hilaire , but through such treatises on physiology as had fallen in his way , he was aware of some of the transcendental views of that science entertained both in France and England ...
... species . He was not acquainted with the works of St. Hilaire , but through such treatises on physiology as had fallen in his way , he was aware of some of the transcendental views of that science entertained both in France and England ...
Page vii
... species , -how was so complicated a being to be formed out of inorganic elements in a manner describable as natural - how even , without ordinary maternity , were the first examples of any such species to be nursed into maturity ? After ...
... species , -how was so complicated a being to be formed out of inorganic elements in a manner describable as natural - how even , without ordinary maternity , were the first examples of any such species to be nursed into maturity ? After ...
Page viii
... species as it proceeded , until it rested ( if it does rest ) with humanity itself ? The idea was of startling ... species to species . The doctrine of unity of organization ; the affinities seen in lines of species ; the curious fact of ...
... species as it proceeded , until it rested ( if it does rest ) with humanity itself ? The idea was of startling ... species to species . The doctrine of unity of organization ; the affinities seen in lines of species ; the curious fact of ...
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... Species common to different Formations , and an unbroken Succession of Animal Life from the beginning to the present Epoch 5. The Lower Silurian Formation is the Record of an Era of Invertebrate Animals PAGE 111 iv • iv vii 6. The ...
... Species common to different Formations , and an unbroken Succession of Animal Life from the beginning to the present Epoch 5. The Lower Silurian Formation is the Record of an Era of Invertebrate Animals PAGE 111 iv • iv vii 6. The ...
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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...