The Supernatural in Nature: A Verification by Free Use of ScienceC. Kegan Paul, 1878 - 484 pages |
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... 189 The World a Study for Spirits . Succession of Vegetable Life Plants without Sunlight ? • · 190 Enlargement of Knowledge • 191 • • 192 • 192 • 193 • 193 194 194 195 · 196 196 • 197 • 197 198 II . Unity of Form . Blood - Corpuscles .
... 189 The World a Study for Spirits . Succession of Vegetable Life Plants without Sunlight ? • · 190 Enlargement of Knowledge • 191 • • 192 • 192 • 193 • 193 194 194 195 · 196 196 • 197 • 197 198 II . Unity of Form . Blood - Corpuscles .
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... vegetable , fish , bird , beast , man . " These asserters are in such a stage of scientific culture , that they tell us " He who can believe that St Goar of Treves transformed a sunbeam into a hat - peg may believe such an account ...
... vegetable , fish , bird , beast , man . " These asserters are in such a stage of scientific culture , that they tell us " He who can believe that St Goar of Treves transformed a sunbeam into a hat - peg may believe such an account ...
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... vegetable and animal worlds , of languages , of arts . " Despite all this , it is possible to obtain knowledge of past creations ; for we detect processes of aggregation which are even now building up new worlds . Processes " leading ...
... vegetable and animal worlds , of languages , of arts . " Despite all this , it is possible to obtain knowledge of past creations ; for we detect processes of aggregation which are even now building up new worlds . Processes " leading ...
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... vegetable worlds , innumerable in forms and functions of life , are chiefly built of carbon , nitrogen , hydrogen , and oxygen . It is , indeed , astonishing that the great variety exhibited in the whole world is unfolded out of few ...
... vegetable worlds , innumerable in forms and functions of life , are chiefly built of carbon , nitrogen , hydrogen , and oxygen . It is , indeed , astonishing that the great variety exhibited in the whole world is unfolded out of few ...
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... vegetable life , was made by the chance meeting of atoms ) will believe that if a countless number of the letters of the alphabet - their material being either gold or anything else - were thrown in a mass in some place , from these ...
... vegetable life , was made by the chance meeting of atoms ) will believe that if a countless number of the letters of the alphabet - their material being either gold or anything else - were thrown in a mass in some place , from these ...
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