The Harmonies of Nature; Or, The Unity of CreationLongmans, Green, and Company, 1866 - 406 páginas |
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... existence will be as evident as if we could follow them on their lustrous path . Besides the planets and moons and numerous comets , a vast number of smaller planetary bodies , partly disseminated , partly grouped in annular zones ...
... existence will be as evident as if we could follow them on their lustrous path . Besides the planets and moons and numerous comets , a vast number of smaller planetary bodies , partly disseminated , partly grouped in annular zones ...
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... existence of a world beyond our own -- as teaching us that the substances of which our earth is composed exist also beyond its limits : for the chemist finds the meteoric stones composed of iron , nickel , cobalt , silica , aluminium ...
... existence of a world beyond our own -- as teaching us that the substances of which our earth is composed exist also beyond its limits : for the chemist finds the meteoric stones composed of iron , nickel , cobalt , silica , aluminium ...
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... existence of these worlds , circling in their unfathomable depths , have many of them required millions of years to reach our planet . Many of those brilliant orbs might have become extinct ages ago , and yet their rays , sent forth up ...
... existence of these worlds , circling in their unfathomable depths , have many of them required millions of years to reach our planet . Many of those brilliant orbs might have become extinct ages ago , and yet their rays , sent forth up ...
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... existence depends upon the degree of heat resulting from the actual distance of our planets from the sun ; and as we cannot possibly attri- bute our origin to chance , thus also it is surely not this blind capricious power , but the ...
... existence depends upon the degree of heat resulting from the actual distance of our planets from the sun ; and as we cannot possibly attri- bute our origin to chance , thus also it is surely not this blind capricious power , but the ...
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... existence , and to that of most of the higher animals ; for how should we be able to find our food , or to escape from our enemies , if all objects were uniformly black or white ? Plunged in a colourless world , man could never have ...
... existence , and to that of most of the higher animals ; for how should we be able to find our food , or to escape from our enemies , if all objects were uniformly black or white ? Plunged in a colourless world , man could never have ...
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