Lay Sermons, Addresses, and ReviewsMacmillan and Company, 1870 - 378 pages |
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... globe , and that the present existences are but the last of an immeasurable series of predecessors . More- over , every step they have made in natural knowledge has tended to extend and rivet in their minds the con- ception of a ...
... globe , and that the present existences are but the last of an immeasurable series of predecessors . More- over , every step they have made in natural knowledge has tended to extend and rivet in their minds the con- ception of a ...
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... globe , in past ages , which is the most striking fact revealed by geology . Consider , now , where our inquiries have led us . We studied our type morphologically , when we determined its anatomy and its development , and when ...
... globe , in past ages , which is the most striking fact revealed by geology . Consider , now , where our inquiries have led us . We studied our type morphologically , when we determined its anatomy and its development , and when ...
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... globe , which has precisely the same general characters as ours , and is found in detached patches , some less , and others more extensive , than the English . Chalk occurs in north - west Ireland ; it stretches over a large part of ...
... globe , which has precisely the same general characters as ours , and is found in detached patches , some less , and others more extensive , than the English . Chalk occurs in north - west Ireland ; it stretches over a large part of ...
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... globe , which I hope to enable you to read , with your own eyes , to - night . Let me add , that few chapters of human history have a more profound significance for ourselves . I weigh my words well when I assert , that the man who ...
... globe , which I hope to enable you to read , with your own eyes , to - night . Let me add , that few chapters of human history have a more profound significance for ourselves . I weigh my words well when I assert , that the man who ...
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... globe long ages before the chalk was deposited . Very few , however , if any , of these ancient forms of animal life were identical with those which now live . Certainly not one of the higher animals was of the same species as any of ...
... globe long ages before the chalk was deposited . Very few , however , if any , of these ancient forms of animal life were identical with those which now live . Certainly not one of the higher animals was of the same species as any of ...
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