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... animal origin of civilized man ; ' to - morrow , again , the same method of interpretation may show the coincidence of the Scriptures with whatever newer discovery Science may have made , or imagined that she has made . The 1 The Rev ...
... animal origin of civilized man ; ' to - morrow , again , the same method of interpretation may show the coincidence of the Scriptures with whatever newer discovery Science may have made , or imagined that she has made . The 1 The Rev ...
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... animals with eyes brought up from the rayless and plantless depths of the sea , as in the recent dredging expeditions . They give us accounts of fossil horses , no bigger than a fox ; of veritable dragons , the winged - fingered ...
... animals with eyes brought up from the rayless and plantless depths of the sea , as in the recent dredging expeditions . They give us accounts of fossil horses , no bigger than a fox ; of veritable dragons , the winged - fingered ...
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... animals , and that the likenesses of composition and growth which language and geological strata exhibit , teach us their history and origin . ' 1 1 In Dr. W. B. Carpenter's " Inaugural Address before the British Association for the ...
... animals , and that the likenesses of composition and growth which language and geological strata exhibit , teach us their history and origin . ' 1 1 In Dr. W. B. Carpenter's " Inaugural Address before the British Association for the ...
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... animal pedigree assigned to man by Darwin and Haeckel , he says : " It need hardly be said that , in dealing with such a problem as this , Science rapidly passes beyond the bounds of positive , verifi- able fact , and enters those of ...
... animal pedigree assigned to man by Darwin and Haeckel , he says : " It need hardly be said that , in dealing with such a problem as this , Science rapidly passes beyond the bounds of positive , verifi- able fact , and enters those of ...
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... animals ; and because the ob- ject is unfit to make an impression upon the sense , as the air , or the invisible or untangible spirit which is included in every living body . " Moreover , besides these bodily hinderances to correct ...
... animals ; and because the ob- ject is unfit to make an impression upon the sense , as the air , or the invisible or untangible spirit which is included in every living body . " Moreover , besides these bodily hinderances to correct ...
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Page 138 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else...
Page 102 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state.
Page 69 - If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Page 196 - The scientific imagination, which is here authoritative, demands, as the origin and cause of a series of ether-waves, a particle of vibrating matter . quite as definite, though it may be excessively minute, as that which gives origin to a musical sound.