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... species ; that the organic remains of consecutive formations are more closely allied than those of recent ones ; that the later species are more highly or- ganized , or have more specialized structures than the early ones , for ...
... species ; that the organic remains of consecutive formations are more closely allied than those of recent ones ; that the later species are more highly or- ganized , or have more specialized structures than the early ones , for ...
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... species , through their remote and common progenitors . Agassiz has remarked , too , that ancient species are more embryonic in their characters than existing ones . The ex- tremest amount of specialization of parts , such , for example ...
... species , through their remote and common progenitors . Agassiz has remarked , too , that ancient species are more embryonic in their characters than existing ones . The ex- tremest amount of specialization of parts , such , for example ...
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... species by secondary causes , in operation from the beginning and now also at work , and not by inde- pendent acts of creation , as commonly believed , is by no means derogatory to the Almighty power of the Creator , and need not alarm ...
... species by secondary causes , in operation from the beginning and now also at work , and not by inde- pendent acts of creation , as commonly believed , is by no means derogatory to the Almighty power of the Creator , and need not alarm ...
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... species of animals . Such is the grand idea which is imperfectly wrought out in the Boy's Dream of Geology . Famous Boys , and How they became Great Men , is a stimu- lus to earnest living , and is evidently the work of one who desired ...
... species of animals . Such is the grand idea which is imperfectly wrought out in the Boy's Dream of Geology . Famous Boys , and How they became Great Men , is a stimu- lus to earnest living , and is evidently the work of one who desired ...
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... species of fossil testacea disinterred from the Michinghampton beds alone . We believe that no other simi- lar formation in Britain has yielded so many species of testacea from one neighbourhood . This neighbourhood , therefore , is one ...
... species of fossil testacea disinterred from the Michinghampton beds alone . We believe that no other simi- lar formation in Britain has yielded so many species of testacea from one neighbourhood . This neighbourhood , therefore , is one ...
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Сторінка 1 - I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
Сторінка 7 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Сторінка 6 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by Reproduction ; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse...
Сторінка 7 - Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide.
Сторінка 14 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground...
Сторінка 29 - Seeva laid wait for me. I came suddenly upon Isis and Osiris : I had done a deed, they said, which the ibis and the crocodile trembled at.
Сторінка 7 - It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of the attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, "as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.
Сторінка 29 - Deeper than ever plummet sounded," I lay inactive. Then, like a chorus, the passion deepened. Some greater interest was at stake ; some mightier cause than ever yet the sword had pleaded, or trumpet had proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms ; hurryings to and fro ; trepidations of innumerable fugitives.
Сторінка 29 - ... heartbreaking partings, and then — everlasting farewells! and, with a sigh such as the caves of hell sighed when the incestuous mother uttered the abhorred name of Death, the sound was reverberated — everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated — everlasting farewells! And I awoke in struggles, and cried aloud, "I will sleep no more!
Сторінка 11 - Their Superiority in the ART of LANDSCAPE PAINTING to all the Ancient Masters, proved by examples of the True, the Beautiful, and the Intellectual, from the Works of Modern Artists, especially from those of JM Turner, Esq., RA By a GRADUATE of OXFORD.