Nature and the Bible: Lectures on the Mosaic History of Creation in Its Relation to Natural Science, 2. köideClark, 1886 |
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... HUMAN RACE , . PAGE 1 32 65 95 121 152 181 XXXI . THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN RACE - continued , 203 XXXII . THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN RACE - Conclusion , 222 XXXIII . THE DURATION OF LIFE IN THE FIRST AGE . OLD TESTA- MENT CHRONOLOGY , 246 ...
... HUMAN RACE , . PAGE 1 32 65 95 121 152 181 XXXI . THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN RACE - continued , 203 XXXII . THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN RACE - Conclusion , 222 XXXIII . THE DURATION OF LIFE IN THE FIRST AGE . OLD TESTA- MENT CHRONOLOGY , 246 ...
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... human race ? I shall have to discuss these points in my next lectures . I begin with the Origin of Organic Beings.1 We here come to the question , whether organic beings , viz . plants and animals , can be produced only by reproduction ...
... human race ? I shall have to discuss these points in my next lectures . I begin with the Origin of Organic Beings.1 We here come to the question , whether organic beings , viz . plants and animals , can be produced only by reproduction ...
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... species . and of the human race , because it is the only possible hypothesis . This is the triumphant argument with which people who talk a good deal about experi- mental science and its methods , would close the dis- cussion about the ...
... species . and of the human race , because it is the only possible hypothesis . This is the triumphant argument with which people who talk a good deal about experi- mental science and its methods , would close the dis- cussion about the ...
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... human race . " 2 In the Lehrbuch der Geologie ( 1854 ) , Vogt defends the theory of the immutability of species . In the notes to his translation of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation ( 1858 ) he overwhelms the supporters of ...
... human race . " 2 In the Lehrbuch der Geologie ( 1854 ) , Vogt defends the theory of the immutability of species . In the notes to his translation of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation ( 1858 ) he overwhelms the supporters of ...
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... species in its essential qualities . Let us see , therefore , on what Darwin founds his theory . It ... human selection ; the forms which were specially good were chosen out for ... race of fantailed pigeons is THE THEORY OF DESCENT . 49.
... species in its essential qualities . Let us see , therefore , on what Darwin founds his theory . It ... human selection ; the forms which were specially good were chosen out for ... race of fantailed pigeons is THE THEORY OF DESCENT . 49.
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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...