Nature and the Bible: Lectures on the Mosaic History of Creation in Its Relation to Natural Science, 2. köideClark, 1886 |
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... hairs than were the plants of the first generation . If this process is continued through many generations in the same place , this peculiarity will at length be so much increased , the number of hairs on the surface of the leaves will ...
... hairs than were the plants of the first generation . If this process is continued through many generations in the same place , this peculiarity will at length be so much increased , the number of hairs on the surface of the leaves will ...
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... hair's breadth , even if they are prolonged to all eternity . And so also immeasurable periods cannot produce what time , whether short or long , cannot cause . Be it long or short , we want another cause to explain the beginning and ...
... hair's breadth , even if they are prolonged to all eternity . And so also immeasurable periods cannot produce what time , whether short or long , cannot cause . Be it long or short , we want another cause to explain the beginning and ...
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... hair , their body of three feet in length , their far greater limitation as to climate and food , their life of only thirty years , are other important characteristics which show the difference between apes and men . The slow growth ...
... hair , their body of three feet in length , their far greater limitation as to climate and food , their life of only thirty years , are other important characteristics which show the difference between apes and men . The slow growth ...
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... " says Darwin , 3 no doubt once covered with hair , both sexes having 1 See above , vol . i . p . 149. 2 Descent of Man , i . 4 . 3 Ibid . i . 206 . beards ; their ears were pointed and capable of move- MAN AND BEAST . 153.
... " says Darwin , 3 no doubt once covered with hair , both sexes having 1 See above , vol . i . p . 149. 2 Descent of Man , i . 4 . 3 Ibid . i . 206 . beards ; their ears were pointed and capable of move- MAN AND BEAST . 153.
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... hair , as the apes are now ; how did it come about that the hair was gradually reduced to what it is now ? Natural selection will not help us here , for , as Wallace says , ' the soft , bare , sensitive skin of man , who does not ...
... hair , as the apes are now ; how did it come about that the hair was gradually reduced to what it is now ? Natural selection will not help us here , for , as Wallace says , ' the soft , bare , sensitive skin of man , who does not ...
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Page 87 - The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree. I believe this simile largely speaks the truth. The green and budding twigs may represent existing species ; and those produced during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species.
Page 87 - The limbs divided into great branches, and these into lesser and lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was small, budding twigs; and this connection of the former and present buds by ramifying branches may well represent the classification of all extinct and living species in groups subordinate to groups.
Page 246 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 88 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 326 - In the time of the Romans the Danish Isles were covered, as now, with magnificent beech forests. Nowhere in the world does this tree flourish more luxuriantly than in Denmark, and eighteen centuries seem to have done little or nothing towards modifying the character of the forest vegetation. Yet in the antecedent bronze period there were no beech trees, or at most but a few stragglers, the country being then covered with oak. In the age of stone again, the Scotch fir prevailed (see p.
Page 183 - And he said, Cursed be Canaan ; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 87 - ... in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thin straggling branch springing from a fork low down in a tree, and which by some chance has been...
Page 154 - The early progenitors of man were no doubt once covered with hair, both sexes having beards ; their ears were pointed and capable of movement ; and their bodies were provided with a tail, having the proper muscles.
Page 134 - It must not be overlooked, however, that there is a very striking difference in absolute mass and weight between the lowest human brain and that of the highest ape...