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... various species as it proceeded , until it rested ( if it does rest ) with humanity itself ? The idea was of startling novelty and vastness ; yet , when the mind was trained to view it steadily and coolly , it seemed to have much to ...
... various species as it proceeded , until it rested ( if it does rest ) with humanity itself ? The idea was of startling novelty and vastness ; yet , when the mind was trained to view it steadily and coolly , it seemed to have much to ...
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... various reasons to be among those nearest to us , had a parallax of a full second , establishing its distance in miles at about nineteen millions of millions . Afterwards , Bessel assigned a parallax of thirty - one hundredths of a ...
... various reasons to be among those nearest to us , had a parallax of a full second , establishing its distance in miles at about nineteen millions of millions . Afterwards , Bessel assigned a parallax of thirty - one hundredths of a ...
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... various . So also are the distances , as proved by the different degrees of telescopic power necessary to bring them into view . The furthest observed by the astronomer were estimated by him as thirty - five thousand times more remote ...
... various . So also are the distances , as proved by the different degrees of telescopic power necessary to bring them into view . The furthest observed by the astronomer were estimated by him as thirty - five thousand times more remote ...
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... various motions , in obedience to certain laws which are to be every day seen acting on the humblest scale in our very presence . Thus , the earth is a globe for the same reason that a dew - drop is so . It is slightly flattened at the ...
... various motions , in obedience to certain laws which are to be every day seen acting on the humblest scale in our very presence . Thus , the earth is a globe for the same reason that a dew - drop is so . It is slightly flattened at the ...
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... various degrees of inclination to their orbits ; for which there must have been a cause in the circumstances under which the planets were produced . The axis of Uranus is removed but eleven degrees from the plane of his orbit : I ...
... various degrees of inclination to their orbits ; for which there must have been a cause in the circumstances under which the planets were produced . The axis of Uranus is removed but eleven degrees from the plane of his orbit : I ...
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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...