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... form or of its shadow the author's mind as evidently retains a bright clear vision , and what he sees he tries to make others see as clearly as he sees it himself . The suspicion and dislike which are aroused in some minds by the very ...
... form or of its shadow the author's mind as evidently retains a bright clear vision , and what he sees he tries to make others see as clearly as he sees it himself . The suspicion and dislike which are aroused in some minds by the very ...
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... form and nature , and by the very details of its supe- riority . So ran the Pagan legend that Providence had compacted man's moral nature out of particles taken from each of the lower animals , giving him the wisdom of the serpent and ...
... form and nature , and by the very details of its supe- riority . So ran the Pagan legend that Providence had compacted man's moral nature out of particles taken from each of the lower animals , giving him the wisdom of the serpent and ...
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... forms whatsoever are de- scended from a very few original ancestors of the simplest type , and that this primæval group itself had , probably , a common parentage . Wildly improbable , ludicrously absurd , degrading to humanity , and ir ...
... forms whatsoever are de- scended from a very few original ancestors of the simplest type , and that this primæval group itself had , probably , a common parentage . Wildly improbable , ludicrously absurd , degrading to humanity , and ir ...
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... form of an ape might be derived from the form of a fish ? We do not mean to say that this has actually happened , but supposing the descendant of the fish to vary continuously in the direc- tion of the ape - like form , the result 8 ...
... form of an ape might be derived from the form of a fish ? We do not mean to say that this has actually happened , but supposing the descendant of the fish to vary continuously in the direc- tion of the ape - like form , the result 8 ...
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Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing. tion of the ape - like form , the result would be intelligible enough . What , then , is there to determine variation in any particular direction , and what limits are there , if any , to the system of ...
Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing. tion of the ape - like form , the result would be intelligible enough . What , then , is there to determine variation in any particular direction , and what limits are there , if any , to the system of ...
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