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... laws of matter , and performing functions for which a material body is indispensable . We must consequently find , for the race of Adam , if not for races that may have preceded him , a material home upon which they may reside , or from ...
... laws of matter , and performing functions for which a material body is indispensable . We must consequently find , for the race of Adam , if not for races that may have preceded him , a material home upon which they may reside , or from ...
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... law of mutual destruction , which reigns in the earth , the ocean , and the air ; but the swarm of human life , increasing in an incalculable ratio , both in the Old and the New World , has never been per- ceptibly reduced by the scythe ...
... law of mutual destruction , which reigns in the earth , the ocean , and the air ; but the swarm of human life , increasing in an incalculable ratio , both in the Old and the New World , has never been per- ceptibly reduced by the scythe ...
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... law of gravitation is decidedly extended through the vast heavens , and that all the perceptible universe is amenable to the operation of time and space , motion and force , in similar relation to our own . Thus the whole firmament ...
... law of gravitation is decidedly extended through the vast heavens , and that all the perceptible universe is amenable to the operation of time and space , motion and force , in similar relation to our own . Thus the whole firmament ...
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... law under which we are individually to join them , we read with no less distinctness among the cemeteries of primeval death that more general enactment under which the races of man , and the tributary creation which obeys him , shall ...
... law under which we are individually to join them , we read with no less distinctness among the cemeteries of primeval death that more general enactment under which the races of man , and the tributary creation which obeys him , shall ...
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... laws of vital organization were entirely different from what they are in the present day . From Adam to Abraham the age of man varied from 969 to 175 years , and gra- dually declined to the average of threescore and ten ; and in like ...
... laws of vital organization were entirely different from what they are in the present day . From Adam to Abraham the age of man varied from 969 to 175 years , and gra- dually declined to the average of threescore and ten ; and in like ...
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More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian David Brewster Visualização integral - 1856 |
More Worlds Than One, the Creed of The. Philosopher and the Hope of the ... David Brewster Visualização integral - 1862 |
More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian David Brewster Visualização integral - 1854 |
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