The Story of Creation: A Plain Account of EvolutionLongmans, Green, 1888 - 242 páginas |
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... changes in the matter of the brain , and are as completely within the range of causation and as capable of mechanical explanation as material phenomena , but of them no material qualities , as weight and occupancy of space , can be ...
... changes in the matter of the brain , and are as completely within the range of causation and as capable of mechanical explanation as material phenomena , but of them no material qualities , as weight and occupancy of space , can be ...
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... be said is that it has not yet been divided , and that since the present universe had its beginning the elements have undergone no change . For it matters not into how many myriad sub- stances 10 THE STORY OF CREATION.
... be said is that it has not yet been divided , and that since the present universe had its beginning the elements have undergone no change . For it matters not into how many myriad sub- stances 10 THE STORY OF CREATION.
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... changes , age cannot wither or weaken it ; amidst all the fierce play of the mighty agencies to which it has been subjected it remains unbroken and unworn ; to it we may apply the ancient words , ' the things which are not seen are ...
... changes , age cannot wither or weaken it ; amidst all the fierce play of the mighty agencies to which it has been subjected it remains unbroken and unworn ; to it we may apply the ancient words , ' the things which are not seen are ...
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... changes are due to motion . 2. Power . - Motion throughout the universe is pro- duced or destroyed , quickened or retarded , increased ' Cf. Mr. Sorby's Presidential Address to the Royal Microscopic Society , Microscopic Journal , March ...
... changes are due to motion . 2. Power . - Motion throughout the universe is pro- duced or destroyed , quickened or retarded , increased ' Cf. Mr. Sorby's Presidential Address to the Royal Microscopic Society , Microscopic Journal , March ...
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... change of position as seen from opposite points of the earth's orbit ) of the nearest fixed star , Alpha Centauri , is nearly one second of arc , giving a distance of twenty millions of millions of miles . So vast is the interval , that ...
... change of position as seen from opposite points of the earth's orbit ) of the nearest fixed star , Alpha Centauri , is nearly one second of arc , giving a distance of twenty millions of millions of miles . So vast is the interval , that ...
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Página 156 - But expectation is permissible where belief is not ; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter.
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Página 76 - Born into life — man grows Forth from his parents' stem, And blends their bloods, as those Of theirs are blent in them; So each new man strikes root into a far fore-time.
Página 169 - Nature's productions should be far " truer " in character than man's productions ; that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship...