Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science, Том 4,Частина 1Nova Scotian Institute of Science., 1876 |
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... I should infer from analogy , that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form . " Again : " I view all beings not as special creations , but as the lineal descendants ...
... I should infer from analogy , that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form . " Again : " I view all beings not as special creations , but as the lineal descendants ...
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Acadia Albion group amygdaloid Antigonishe ANTIGONISHE COUNTY Arisaig Pier band boulders Brook section calcite Cape Breton Coke colour continuation County Cove crossing crystalline Devonian diorites Doctor's Brook east eggs exposed extending feet formation fossiliferous fossils Frenchman's Barn Geological Survey granite granitoid gypsum Halifax harbour hornblendic Huronian inches jasper jaspideous John Knoydart Knoydart Brook Lake Laurentian limestone Lower Arisaig series lower carboniferous Lower Silurian magnet Main seam McAra's Brook McLellan's McLeod fault metamorphic middle series miles Morristown Morristown township mouth north side Nova Scotia ophite outcrop overlying passes petrosilex Pictou Coal Field Pictou County pliocene porcellaneous porphyry post pliocene primordial quartz quartzites reach red slates regarded River road rocks sandstones seen shews shore short distance sirtalis south side species specimen Strait of Canso strata Sugar Loaf syenite synclinal Tattagouche thickness Township trap Upper Arisaig series Upper Silurian veins westward
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Сторінка 28 - ... of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual.
Сторінка 28 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
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