Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers].John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho, 1853 - 356 páginas |
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... existence of the animated species . He was not acquainted with the works of St. Hilaire , but through such treatises on physiology as had fallen in his way , he was aware of some of the transcendental views of that science entertained ...
... existence of the animated species . He was not acquainted with the works of St. Hilaire , but through such treatises on physiology as had fallen in his way , he was aware of some of the transcendental views of that science entertained ...
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... existence of the animated species . He was not acquainted with the works of St. Hilaire , but through such treatises on physiology as had fallen in his way , he was aware of some of the transcendental views of that science entertained ...
... existence of the animated species . He was not acquainted with the works of St. Hilaire , but through such treatises on physiology as had fallen in his way , he was aware of some of the transcendental views of that science entertained ...
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... existence of other astral systems is much more decided than might be expected , when we consider that the nearest of them must needs be placed at a mighty interval beyond our own . The elder Herschel , directing his wonderful tube ...
... existence of other astral systems is much more decided than might be expected , when we consider that the nearest of them must needs be placed at a mighty interval beyond our own . The elder Herschel , directing his wonderful tube ...
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... existence of the many binary and ternary solar systems . It may be supposed that , at a certain point in the confluence of the matter of these regions of space , the solar nuclei would become involved in a common revolutionary motion ...
... existence of the many binary and ternary solar systems . It may be supposed that , at a certain point in the confluence of the matter of these regions of space , the solar nuclei would become involved in a common revolutionary motion ...
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... existence in space of very numerous small bodies , moving in more or less regular orbits around the sun and larger planets , which at certain periods undergo such perturbation , that their motion becomes completely deranged , and they ...
... existence in space of very numerous small bodies , moving in more or less regular orbits around the sun and larger planets , which at certain periods undergo such perturbation , that their motion becomes completely deranged , and they ...
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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...