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... whole of the matter now forming our solar system was as yet unformed . Contraction may alternate with expansion , according to the changing condition of a forming system ; but accretion is a process which can only act in one direction ...
... whole of the matter now forming our solar system was as yet unformed . Contraction may alternate with expansion , according to the changing condition of a forming system ; but accretion is a process which can only act in one direction ...
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... whole earth contracting until it became entirely liquid ; or rather these changes would progress until no considerable portion of the earth would be gaseous , for doubtless long before this stage was reached large portions of the earth ...
... whole earth contracting until it became entirely liquid ; or rather these changes would progress until no considerable portion of the earth would be gaseous , for doubtless long before this stage was reached large portions of the earth ...
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... whole globe would have so far cooled that a process of aggregation of solid matter around the centre of the earth would take place . The matter so aggregated consisted probably of metallic and metalloidal compounds denser than the ...
... whole globe would have so far cooled that a process of aggregation of solid matter around the centre of the earth would take place . The matter so aggregated consisted probably of metallic and metalloidal compounds denser than the ...
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... whole of the enormous period which elapsed between the time when first the earth had a surface , and the time when the atmosphere began to resemble in constitution the air we breathe . Even when vegetable life , such as we are familiar ...
... whole of the enormous period which elapsed between the time when first the earth had a surface , and the time when the atmosphere began to resemble in constitution the air we breathe . Even when vegetable life , such as we are familiar ...
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... whole earth . In assuming the probability that vegetable life preceded animal life , I may appear to be opposing myself to an accepted palæontological doctrine , according to which animal and vegetable life began together upon the earth ...
... whole earth . In assuming the probability that vegetable life preceded animal life , I may appear to be opposing myself to an accepted palæontological doctrine , according to which animal and vegetable life began together upon the earth ...
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Сторінка 28 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
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