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... perfect , and yet man's reason is a part of the creation , and of nature's work . The waste of life is prodigious , if such a term is applicable to the circumstance that often millions of spores are produced in order that half a dozen ...
... perfect , and yet man's reason is a part of the creation , and of nature's work . The waste of life is prodigious , if such a term is applicable to the circumstance that often millions of spores are produced in order that half a dozen ...
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... perfect types from the beginning , He should have called into existence seeds of life capable , under the laws He gave them , of rising in successive generations through count- less ages , to endowments of the noblest order , to a ...
... perfect types from the beginning , He should have called into existence seeds of life capable , under the laws He gave them , of rising in successive generations through count- less ages , to endowments of the noblest order , to a ...
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... perfect of an inferior species comes very near to the most imperfect of that which is immediately above it . ' Again : The whole chasm in nature , from a plant to a man , is filled up with divers kinds of creatures , rising one over ...
... perfect of an inferior species comes very near to the most imperfect of that which is immediately above it . ' Again : The whole chasm in nature , from a plant to a man , is filled up with divers kinds of creatures , rising one over ...
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... perfect . It has indeed been a curious fancy for men so long to entertain , that though they were created in the image of God to have dominion over the lower creatures , yet those creatures without reason , without teaching , without ...
... perfect . It has indeed been a curious fancy for men so long to entertain , that though they were created in the image of God to have dominion over the lower creatures , yet those creatures without reason , without teaching , without ...
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... perfect will to which our own ought to be conformed . Not to know this will is to be still brutish ; to know it only by the teaching of others is to be still among the things of a child ; to know it of oneself , which is in other words ...
... perfect will to which our own ought to be conformed . Not to know this will is to be still brutish ; to know it only by the teaching of others is to be still among the things of a child ; to know it of oneself , which is in other words ...
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