Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers].John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho, 1853 - 356 páginas |
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... CAUSES , AND ITS CURE . Second Edition . Post Svo . 78. 6d . 20. LISTON'S PRACTICAL SURGERY . Fourth Edition . 8vo . 22s . 21. HALL'S PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS IN MEDICINE . FIRST AND SECOND SERIES . Post 8vo . 8s . 6d ...
... CAUSES , AND ITS CURE . Second Edition . Post Svo . 78. 6d . 20. LISTON'S PRACTICAL SURGERY . Fourth Edition . 8vo . 22s . 21. HALL'S PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS IN MEDICINE . FIRST AND SECOND SERIES . Post 8vo . 8s . 6d ...
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... cause . Such is a law of our minds , which cannot have been bestowed upon us without being designed for a good end . And , indeed , it is by experience placed beyond all doubt , that to yield to this impulse is to use a 1 Herschel's ...
... cause . Such is a law of our minds , which cannot have been bestowed upon us without being designed for a good end . And , indeed , it is by experience placed beyond all doubt , that to yield to this impulse is to use a 1 Herschel's ...
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... cause and relation , are not to be estimated by their imme- diate and apparent effects ; for both are there often good results of the most tangible kind where no such thing was expected - as from Napier's discovery of the logarithms ...
... cause and relation , are not to be estimated by their imme- diate and apparent effects ; for both are there often good results of the most tangible kind where no such thing was expected - as from Napier's discovery of the logarithms ...
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... cause acting throughout the whole system . Some of the other relations of the bodies are not less remark- able . It is , perhaps , of little consequence that the larger planets are towards the outside of the system , since there is an ...
... cause acting throughout the whole system . Some of the other relations of the bodies are not less remark- able . It is , perhaps , of little consequence that the larger planets are towards the outside of the system , since there is an ...
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... causes of the phenomena of the physical world . We come , in short , to a Being beyond nature - its author , its God ; - infinite , inconceivable , it may be , and yet one whom these very laws present to us with attributes showing that ...
... causes of the phenomena of the physical world . We come , in short , to a Being beyond nature - its author , its God ; - infinite , inconceivable , it may be , and yet one whom these very laws present to us with attributes showing that ...
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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...