The errors of evolution, ed., with an intr., by H.L. Hastings1885 |
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... bright star in the centre was surrounded by a halo . Speculating on these strange forms , only two ideas presented themselves : either these nebula were systems of stars like our own Milky Way , whose remote parts pre- sent a nebulous ...
... bright star in the centre was surrounded by a halo . Speculating on these strange forms , only two ideas presented themselves : either these nebula were systems of stars like our own Milky Way , whose remote parts pre- sent a nebulous ...
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... bright as a new dollar . The little bricks , then , no less than the larger brick , at- test some outside influence to combine all these elements ; and , inasmuch as the combinations are more delicate and difficult and numerous , give ...
... bright as a new dollar . The little bricks , then , no less than the larger brick , at- test some outside influence to combine all these elements ; and , inasmuch as the combinations are more delicate and difficult and numerous , give ...
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... bright , distinct , yellow line ; lithium a pale yel- low , and a bright red line ; while strontium gives a band of six red , one orange , and one blue . The very smallest quantities of these metals present in the atmosphere are easily ...
... bright , distinct , yellow line ; lithium a pale yel- low , and a bright red line ; while strontium gives a band of six red , one orange , and one blue . The very smallest quantities of these metals present in the atmosphere are easily ...
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... bright red line of potassium coincides exactly with a dark line of the same breadth . Thus , we discover in the sun , iron , calcium , magnesium , sodium , aluminum , nickel , barium and copper . The sunlight reflected from the planets ...
... bright red line of potassium coincides exactly with a dark line of the same breadth . Thus , we discover in the sun , iron , calcium , magnesium , sodium , aluminum , nickel , barium and copper . The sunlight reflected from the planets ...
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... bright lines coincides with a similar group of dark lines , then we know that the terrestrial substance producing the bright lines is present in the atmosphere of the sun ; for it is this substance , and this substance alone , which ...
... bright lines coincides with a similar group of dark lines , then we know that the terrestrial substance producing the bright lines is present in the atmosphere of the sun ; for it is this substance , and this substance alone , which ...
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Page 103 - And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: and they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
Page 179 - And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Page 102 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Page 141 - Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner-stone thereof: When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 103 - And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Page 171 - 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.
Page 180 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 157 - It may seem a small thing to admit that the dull vital actions of a fungus, or a foraminifer, are the properties of their protoplasm, and are the direct results of the nature of the matter of which they are composed.
Page 185 - Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of great length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.
Page 103 - And I saw no temple therein : for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it...