Vestiges of the natural history of creation [by R. Chambers].John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho, 1853 - 356 páginas |
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... or code of morals . He viewed the inquiry as simply philosophical , and felt assured that our concep- tion of the divine Author of Nature could never be truly injured by any additional insight we might gain into His vi PREFACE .
... or code of morals . He viewed the inquiry as simply philosophical , and felt assured that our concep- tion of the divine Author of Nature could never be truly injured by any additional insight we might gain into His vi PREFACE .
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... or code of morals . He viewed the inquiry as simply philosophical , and felt assured that our concep- tion of the divine Author of Nature could never be truly injured by any additional insight we might gain into His vi PREFACE .
... or code of morals . He viewed the inquiry as simply philosophical , and felt assured that our concep- tion of the divine Author of Nature could never be truly injured by any additional insight we might gain into His vi PREFACE .
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... tion , the idea at length came unpromptedly into his mind -and therefore so far was an original idea - that the ordinary phenomenon of reproduction was the key to the genesis of species . In that process - simple because familiar to us ...
... tion , the idea at length came unpromptedly into his mind -and therefore so far was an original idea - that the ordinary phenomenon of reproduction was the key to the genesis of species . In that process - simple because familiar to us ...
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... tion has never for a moment affected his original faith in the hypothesis - as how , indeed , could it , when not one of the writers on that side proved himself to have taken up a correct conception of the aim of the work , showed a ...
... tion has never for a moment affected his original faith in the hypothesis - as how , indeed , could it , when not one of the writers on that side proved himself to have taken up a correct conception of the aim of the work , showed a ...
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... tion that when natural law is spoken of here , reference is only made to the mode in which the Divine Power is exercised . It is but another phrase for the action of the ever - present and sustaining God . ' 1 See Proofs , Illustrations ...
... tion that when natural law is spoken of here , reference is only made to the mode in which the Divine Power is exercised . It is but another phrase for the action of the ever - present and sustaining God . ' 1 See Proofs , Illustrations ...
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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...