Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers]. |
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... THE HARMONIES OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE IN RELATION TO THE HIGHER SENTIMENTS ; with Observations on Medical Studies , and on the Moral and Scientific Relations of Medical Life . Post 8vo . , cloth , 5s . DR . JAMES HOPE , F.R.S. ON DISEASES ...
... THE HARMONIES OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE IN RELATION TO THE HIGHER SENTIMENTS ; with Observations on Medical Studies , and on the Moral and Scientific Relations of Medical Life . Post 8vo . , cloth , 5s . DR . JAMES HOPE , F.R.S. ON DISEASES ...
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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...