The Story of Creation: A Plain Account of EvolutionLongmans, Green, 1888 - 242 páginas |
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... modify every department of human thought and every motive to human action . But so it was . The true epoch - maker , never dreaming to what far - reaching and momentous issue his work would lead , retired , some time after his return ...
... modify every department of human thought and every motive to human action . But so it was . The true epoch - maker , never dreaming to what far - reaching and momentous issue his work would lead , retired , some time after his return ...
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... modifications . of similar yet different primary forms . In the living world , facts of this kind are now understood to mean evolution from a common prototype . It is difficult to imagine that in the not - living world they are devoid ...
... modifications . of similar yet different primary forms . In the living world , facts of this kind are now understood to mean evolution from a common prototype . It is difficult to imagine that in the not - living world they are devoid ...
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... modification of the life - forms . Although , as in every period , volcanic action is manifest , the igneous rocks being pushed through the strata , or now and again alternating with them , we meet with few traces of the metamorphism ...
... modification of the life - forms . Although , as in every period , volcanic action is manifest , the igneous rocks being pushed through the strata , or now and again alternating with them , we meet with few traces of the metamorphism ...
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... modification resulting in the appearance of new types , the evidence as to ascent of life from the simple to the complex , and as to its succession , is overwhelming . There was a time when the earth was devoid of life , and we are very ...
... modification resulting in the appearance of new types , the evidence as to ascent of life from the simple to the complex , and as to its succession , is overwhelming . There was a time when the earth was devoid of life , and we are very ...
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... modification in the complex forms being due to the division of functions which are per- formed in every part by the simple forms . The like does everything ; the unlike does some things . Although the foregoing and numberless other ...
... modification in the complex forms being due to the division of functions which are per- formed in every part by the simple forms . The like does everything ; the unlike does some things . Although the foregoing and numberless other ...
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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...