A Manual of Anthropology, Or Science of Man Based on Modern Research by Charles BrayLongmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1871 - 358 pages |
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... supposed to represent . It has also been said that the doctrines here propounded tend to lower our ideal . This also may be partially true , but our real good will be found in the proper restraint of our un- bounded ideal longings ...
... supposed to represent . It has also been said that the doctrines here propounded tend to lower our ideal . This also may be partially true , but our real good will be found in the proper restraint of our un- bounded ideal longings ...
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... supposed to have existed originally as nebulous . matter that is , a sort of " fiery mist " like the tails of comets . Our system has gradually settled down into its present form , evolving in the process an enormous quantity of heat ...
... supposed to have existed originally as nebulous . matter that is , a sort of " fiery mist " like the tails of comets . Our system has gradually settled down into its present form , evolving in the process an enormous quantity of heat ...
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... supposed originally to have begun . The earth has been very gradually cooling down , and is still conjectured to be in a state of internal fluidity . According to Sir Charles Lyell , the heat increases as we leave the surface for the ...
... supposed originally to have begun . The earth has been very gradually cooling down , and is still conjectured to be in a state of internal fluidity . According to Sir Charles Lyell , the heat increases as we leave the surface for the ...
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... supposed to be about 60 miles thick , which bears the same proportion as one inch to a globe eleven feet in diameter . We need not be surprised therefore if some still further upheaval and lowering of continents should take place , and ...
... supposed to be about 60 miles thick , which bears the same proportion as one inch to a globe eleven feet in diameter . We need not be surprised therefore if some still further upheaval and lowering of continents should take place , and ...
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... supposed to be owing to some disturbance in its fiery atmosphere ; probably from an unusual conflagration of hydrogen gas . 66 But what has become of the heat in this process of the earth's cooling down ? Professor Tyndall tells us that ...
... supposed to be owing to some disturbance in its fiery atmosphere ; probably from an unusual conflagration of hydrogen gas . 66 But what has become of the heat in this process of the earth's cooling down ? Professor Tyndall tells us that ...
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