Vestiges of the Natural History of CreationChurchill, 1853 - 325 páginas |
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Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers]. Robert Chambers Visualização integral - 1853 |
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Acrogens admitted advance affinity Agassiz amongst animal kingdom Annelides appear birds body Brachiopods called carboniferous cause cephalopoda cephalopodous character cloth connexion creation creatures cretaceous Crinoidea crustacea development hypothesis Devonian dicotyledons DISEASES distinct doctrine early earth eocene example existence external fact faculties favour Fcap feet fishes formation fossils gasteropods genera geological geologists globe grade herbivorous higher human Ichthyosaur idea Illustrations inferior inorganic insects instances invertebrate kind land larvæ limestone living Lower Silurian mammalia manner marine matter Medical mind mode mollusks naturalists nature observed Old Red Sandstone oolite organic origin peculiar period Permian phenomena plants portion Post 8vo present principle produced Professor Sedgwick regard remarkable reptiles resemblance rocks Sandstone says Second Edition seen shells species strata structure supposed surface teeth tertiary thecodonts tion trace Triassic tribes Trilobites vegetable vertebrate whole
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Página 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, this power, which are both distinct from itself, the law does nothing, is nothing."—Paley.