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... complete , flat walls of wax being built where they tend to intersect . A little extra regularity , advantageous for the saving of wax and labour , would produce the symmetrical comb of the hive - bee with its two layers of hexagonal ...
... complete , flat walls of wax being built where they tend to intersect . A little extra regularity , advantageous for the saving of wax and labour , would produce the symmetrical comb of the hive - bee with its two layers of hexagonal ...
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... complete , still the circumstances of the human race alone would disable us from believing that the Flood of Noah's epoch extended over all the globe . With other animals it might be advanced that the different species and main ...
... complete , still the circumstances of the human race alone would disable us from believing that the Flood of Noah's epoch extended over all the globe . With other animals it might be advanced that the different species and main ...
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... complete , occurring within a space of only 500 years . If all the nations spoken of as contemporary with Abraham were only 500 years distant from the Flood , as the Book of Genesis shows them to have been , we may be certain that they ...
... complete , occurring within a space of only 500 years . If all the nations spoken of as contemporary with Abraham were only 500 years distant from the Flood , as the Book of Genesis shows them to have been , we may be certain that they ...
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... complete fabric of the globe , or even of the whole material universe as far as it comes within our ken , the problem for solution is not whether these great results could or could not have been brought to pass in an indefinitely short ...
... complete fabric of the globe , or even of the whole material universe as far as it comes within our ken , the problem for solution is not whether these great results could or could not have been brought to pass in an indefinitely short ...
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... complete decay which left nothing of it but its bark and roots , and for the slow accumulation of sedi- ment which has encased without overthrowing it . A complete alteration must have taken place in the con- ditions of the ground in ...
... complete decay which left nothing of it but its bark and roots , and for the slow accumulation of sedi- ment which has encased without overthrowing it . A complete alteration must have taken place in the con- ditions of the ground in ...
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