Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers].John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho, 1853 - 356 páginas |
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... faculties are baffled , we dream ; where they compass their object , we inquire after 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 ...
... faculties are baffled , we dream ; where they compass their object , we inquire after 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 ...
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... faculties ; that there is a connexion between this knowledge and our well - being ; and that , if we may judge from things once despaired of by our I inquiring reason , but now made clear and simple , THE ORIGIN OF THE ANIMATED TRIBES .
... faculties ; that there is a connexion between this knowledge and our well - being ; and that , if we may judge from things once despaired of by our I inquiring reason , but now made clear and simple , THE ORIGIN OF THE ANIMATED TRIBES .
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... faculties ; this again producing the next higher , and so on to the highest . We contemplate , in short , a universal gestation of nature , analogous to that of the individual being ; and attended as little by circum- stances of a ...
... faculties ; this again producing the next higher , and so on to the highest . We contemplate , in short , a universal gestation of nature , analogous to that of the individual being ; and attended as little by circum- stances of a ...
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... faculties , but great tenacity of life , and , generally speaking , the most harmless of all the reptiles , many of them feeding exclusively on vegetable sub- stances . Destitute of teeth , they exhibit , like the birds , only a horny ...
... faculties , but great tenacity of life , and , generally speaking , the most harmless of all the reptiles , many of them feeding exclusively on vegetable sub- stances . Destitute of teeth , they exhibit , like the birds , only a horny ...
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... faculties of our nature are called into exercise . When , on the contrary , there is leisure and abundance , the self - seeking and self- preserving instincts are allowed to rest , the gentler and more generous sentiments are evoked ...
... faculties of our nature are called into exercise . When , on the contrary , there is leisure and abundance , the self - seeking and self- preserving instincts are allowed to rest , the gentler and more generous sentiments are evoked ...
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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...