Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers]. |
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... whole ? It has often been found , in philosophizing , that the prime difficulty lay in bringing down the mind to sufficiently simple conceptions . The many soar and mystify , and come to nothing ; to few is it given to find truth where ...
... whole ? It has often been found , in philosophizing , that the prime difficulty lay in bringing down the mind to sufficiently simple conceptions . The many soar and mystify , and come to nothing ; to few is it given to find truth where ...
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... whole arrangement . It has also been discovered that the laws of motion extend beyond the solar system . Amongst the orbs , which seem so still and serene to our ordinary perceptions , we now know that there is no such thing as rest ...
... whole arrangement . It has also been discovered that the laws of motion extend beyond the solar system . Amongst the orbs , which seem so still and serene to our ordinary perceptions , we now know that there is no such thing as rest ...
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... whole system . Some of the other relations of the bodies are not less remark- able . It is , perhaps , of little consequence that the larger planets are towards the outside of the system , since there is an absence of regularity in the ...
... whole system . Some of the other relations of the bodies are not less remark- able . It is , perhaps , of little consequence that the larger planets are towards the outside of the system , since there is an absence of regularity in the ...
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... whole of this process -for a God only to conceive and do , and yet for man , after all , to trace out and ponder upon . Truly must we be in some way immediate to the august Father , who can think all this , and so come into his presence ...
... whole of this process -for a God only to conceive and do , and yet for man , after all , to trace out and ponder upon . Truly must we be in some way immediate to the august Father , who can think all this , and so come into his presence ...
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... whole is uniform ? -that is to say , do the whole consist of the same chemical elements ? What are elements ? This is a term applied by the chemist to a limited number of substances ( fifty - five is , or was lately , the number ...
... whole is uniform ? -that is to say , do the whole consist of the same chemical elements ? What are elements ? This is a term applied by the chemist to a limited number of substances ( fifty - five is , or was lately , the number ...
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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 larvę living mammę 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...