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 SystemHarper & brothers, 1870 - 459 páginas |
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... seems unreasonable to suppose , therefore , that these shell - like 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 ...
... seems unreasonable to suppose , therefore , that these shell - like 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 ...
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... seem to be beyond the reach of argu- ment who can still deny that our beautiful prairies have , for ages instead of months , been the bed of a sea which rolled its surges from the Adirondacks on the east to the Sierra Nevada on the west ...
... seem to be beyond the reach of argu- ment who can still deny that our beautiful prairies have , for ages instead of months , been the bed of a sea which rolled its surges from the Adirondacks on the east to the Sierra Nevada on the west ...
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... seem that , if the appliances of science were as effect- ive as those which we know that Nature wields , every rec ... seems to be mentioned in Gen. i . , 1 , 2 : " In the beginning God B Fig . 11. Comparative volume of the earth in 38 ...
... seem that , if the appliances of science were as effect- ive as those which we know that Nature wields , every rec ... seems to be mentioned in Gen. i . , 1 , 2 : " In the beginning God B Fig . 11. Comparative volume of the earth in 38 ...
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... seems to have been a favorite conception of the ancient philosophers and poets . What a consistent pic- ture is given by Ovid in the " Metamorphoses : " " Ante , mare et tellus , et quod tegit omnia cœlum , Unus erat toto Naturæ vultus ...
... seems to have been a favorite conception of the ancient philosophers and poets . What a consistent pic- ture is given by Ovid in the " Metamorphoses : " " Ante , mare et tellus , et quod tegit omnia cœlum , Unus erat toto Naturæ vultus ...
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... seems to be . And if we gaze across the cold and starless interval which separates our firmament of stars from its nearest neighbors , there we may witness a universe in its formative stage . There , indeed , are firmaments so remote ...
... seems to be . And if we gaze across the cold and starless interval which separates our firmament of stars from its nearest neighbors , there we may witness a universe in its formative stage . There , indeed , are firmaments so remote ...
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