Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers].John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho, 1853 - 356 páginas |
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... nature as having been instituted in the manner of law also , though not less under the pro- vidential care of the Supreme than the physical phenomena of the beginning , or any part of the great pageant of nature which daily passes ...
... nature as having been instituted in the manner of law also , though not less under the pro- vidential care of the Supreme than the physical phenomena of the beginning , or any part of the great pageant of nature which daily passes ...
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... nature , on becoming acquainted with an outline of the Laplacian hypothesis of the solar system . Having previously been convinced that the Divine Governor of the world conducts its passing affairs by a fixed rule , to which we apply ...
... nature , on becoming acquainted with an outline of the Laplacian hypothesis of the solar system . Having previously been convinced that the Divine Governor of the world conducts its passing affairs by a fixed rule , to which we apply ...
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... nature as having been instituted in the manner of law also , though not less under the pro- vidential care of the Supreme than the physical phenomena of the beginning , or any part of the great pageant of nature which daily passes ...
... nature as having been instituted in the manner of law also , though not less under the pro- vidential care of the Supreme than the physical phenomena of the beginning , or any part of the great pageant of nature which daily passes ...
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... nature , for the changes of an embryo fell little short of the required advances from species to species . The doctrine of unity of organization ; the affinities seen in lines of species ; the curious fact of rudimentary organs ; above ...
... nature , for the changes of an embryo fell little short of the required advances from species to species . The doctrine of unity of organization ; the affinities seen in lines of species ; the curious fact of rudimentary organs ; above ...
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... nature - its author , its God ; - infinite , inconceivable , it may be , and yet one whom these very laws present to us with attributes showing that our nature is in some way a faint and far - cast shadow of His , while all the gentlest ...
... nature - its author , its God ; - infinite , inconceivable , it may be , and yet one whom these very laws present to us with attributes showing that our nature is in some way a faint and far - cast shadow of His , while all the gentlest ...
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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...