Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers].John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho, 1853 - 356 páginas |
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Robert Chambers. direct means of improving our condition on earth , and to advance in the scale of moral as well as intellectual being . Nor are we left to doubt that extensions of knowledge , either in simple fact or in cause and ...
Robert Chambers. direct means of improving our condition on earth , and to advance in the scale of moral as well as intellectual being . Nor are we left to doubt that extensions of knowledge , either in simple fact or in cause and ...
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... advance to a new chapter in this marvellous history- that of the Devonian era . The term Devonian System is applied to an important and conspicuous group of strata , overlying the Silurian , and largely developed - first in the South of ...
... advance to a new chapter in this marvellous history- that of the Devonian era . The term Devonian System is applied to an important and conspicuous group of strata , overlying the Silurian , and largely developed - first in the South of ...
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... advance upwards in the series of rocks , and disappear before we arrive at the tertiary formation . Calamites cannaformis . The club - moss family ( lycopodiacea ) are other plants of the present surface , usually seen in a lowly and ...
... advance upwards in the series of rocks , and disappear before we arrive at the tertiary formation . Calamites cannaformis . The club - moss family ( lycopodiacea ) are other plants of the present surface , usually seen in a lowly and ...
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... advance of life from inferior to superior classes there is here no interruption . Taking all things together , it seems the more reasonable supposition , that , notwithstanding conformableness of strata , a local suspension of deposits ...
... advance of life from inferior to superior classes there is here no interruption . Taking all things together , it seems the more reasonable supposition , that , notwithstanding conformableness of strata , a local suspension of deposits ...
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... advance of or- ganization from those of preceding systems . The pentacrinite , instead of a round , has a five - angled stalk , with an increased profusion of ten- tacula ; it has also the superior character of a power to float about ...
... advance of or- ganization from those of preceding systems . The pentacrinite , instead of a round , has a five - angled stalk , with an increased profusion of ten- tacula ; it has also the superior character of a power to float about ...
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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 larvæ living mammæ 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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Página 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.
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, without this power, which are both distinct from itself, the law does nothing, is nothing. The expression, "the law of metallic nature...