Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers].John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho, 1853 - 356 páginas |
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... fact to be accounted for , the passage from the inorganic to the organic , did not , however , so much embarrass him- illustrated as it was by organic chemistry - as the means by which all animals above the very humblest were created ...
... fact to be accounted for , the passage from the inorganic to the organic , did not , however , so much embarrass him- illustrated as it was by organic chemistry - as the means by which all animals above the very humblest were created ...
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... fact of rudimentary organs ; above all , the actual history of the course of animated nature , as revealed by the researches of the paleontologist ; were all in harmony with the idea , and could be reconciled to no other of a greatly ...
... fact of rudimentary organs ; above all , the actual history of the course of animated nature , as revealed by the researches of the paleontologist ; were all in harmony with the idea , and could be reconciled to no other of a greatly ...
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... facts against the development hypo- thesis , of which so many unfortunate examples are here submitted to public consideration - he feels deeply grateful for many others , by which he believes the work to have undergone a great , though ...
... facts against the development hypo- thesis , of which so many unfortunate examples are here submitted to public consideration - he feels deeply grateful for many others , by which he believes the work to have undergone a great , though ...
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... fact , that , if the swiftest race - horse ever known had begun to traverse it , at full speed , at the time of the birth of Moses , he would as yet have accomplished only half his journey . It has long been concluded amongst ...
... fact , that , if the swiftest race - horse ever known had begun to traverse it , at full speed , at the time of the birth of Moses , he would as yet have accomplished only half his journey . It has long been concluded amongst ...
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... fact or in 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 ...
... fact or in 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 ...
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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...