Sketches of Creation: A Popular View of Some of the Grand Conclusions of the Sciences in Reference to the History of Matter and of Life. Together with a Statement of the Intimations of Science Respecting the Primordial Condition and the Ultimate Destiny of the Earth and the Solar System |
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... forms " of Nature ; who delight to contemplate the sublime , persistent , all- comprehending , and beneficent plans of Deity unfolding through geological cycles toward definite and intelligible ends ; in short , to all who love to ...
... forms " of Nature ; who delight to contemplate the sublime , persistent , all- comprehending , and beneficent plans of Deity unfolding through geological cycles toward definite and intelligible ends ; in short , to all who love to ...
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... forms . Who has not stumbled upon similar shapes at the foot of some beetling cliff , or washed from the weath- ered soil of some cultivated field ? Pause a moment , for these are remarkable and unexpected discoveries . Let us ...
... forms . Who has not stumbled upon similar shapes at the foot of some beetling cliff , or washed from the weath- ered soil of some cultivated field ? Pause a moment , for these are remarkable and unexpected discoveries . Let us ...
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... forms have ever belonged to living animals . They are probably but " mere freaks of nature . " Perhaps they have been produced by " the influences of the stars . " Or , it may be , there is some mysterious. Fig . 2. Edge view of the two ...
... forms have ever belonged to living animals . They are probably but " mere freaks of nature . " Perhaps they have been produced by " the influences of the stars . " Or , it may be , there is some mysterious. Fig . 2. Edge view of the two ...
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... form , may we not regard these as some of the possible forms under which the particles of matter fortuitously fall ? So reasoned the world prior to the sixteenth century . But this was when the philosopher sat in his closet and argued ...
... form , may we not regard these as some of the possible forms under which the particles of matter fortuitously fall ? So reasoned the world prior to the sixteenth century . But this was when the philosopher sat in his closet and argued ...
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... forms pass by , and discovered them mar- shaled by a single leading Intelligence . We have wit- nessed the progressive development of the physical world -its successive adaptations to its successive populations , and its completion and ...
... forms pass by , and discovered them mar- shaled by a single leading Intelligence . We have wit- nessed the progressive development of the physical world -its successive adaptations to its successive populations , and its completion and ...
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