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... Darwin on the Origin of Species , 109 , 229 . and his Reviewers , 406 . Day with the Dead , A , 326 . Election in November , The , 492 . Eleusinia , 157 . Expression , 572 . Fayal and the Portuguese , 526 . Galleries of Art , On the ...
... Darwin on the Origin of Species , 109 , 229 . and his Reviewers , 406 . Day with the Dead , A , 326 . Election in November , The , 492 . Eleusinia , 157 . Expression , 572 . Fayal and the Portuguese , 526 . Galleries of Art , On the ...
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... DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES . naissant , and Protestant art , subdivided into its diversified schools or leading ideas , all graphically arranged so as to demonstrate , amid the infinite varieties of humanity , a divine unity of ...
... DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES . naissant , and Protestant art , subdivided into its diversified schools or leading ideas , all graphically arranged so as to demonstrate , amid the infinite varieties of humanity , a divine unity of ...
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DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES . •. with it the most eloquent art - literature of any tongue , have all recently sprung in- to existence in our motherland . All hon- or to those generous spirits that have pro- duced this , and honor to ...
DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES . •. with it the most eloquent art - literature of any tongue , have all recently sprung in- to existence in our motherland . All hon- or to those generous spirits that have pro- duced this , and honor to ...
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... Darwin's dia- gram of transmutation made easy omi- nously show what small deviations from the straight path may come to in the end . The prospect of the future , according- ly , is on the whole pleasant and encour- aging . It is only ...
... Darwin's dia- gram of transmutation made easy omi- nously show what small deviations from the straight path may come to in the end . The prospect of the future , according- ly , is on the whole pleasant and encour- aging . It is only ...
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ON THE FORMATION OF GALLERIES OF ART . DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES . Ir is barely fifty years since England refused the gift of the pictures that now constitute the Dulwich Gallery . So rap- idly , however , did public opinion and ...
ON THE FORMATION OF GALLERIES OF ART . DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES . Ir is barely fifty years since England refused the gift of the pictures that now constitute the Dulwich Gallery . So rap- idly , however , did public opinion and ...
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Page 233 - History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.
Page 207 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Page 123 - OF all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well...
Page 606 - THE GLACIERS OF THE ALPS : being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents. An Account of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers, and an Exposition of the Physical Principles to which they are related.
Page 479 - A GLACIER is AN IMPERFECT FLUID, OR A VISCOUS BODY. WHICH IS URGED DOWN SLOPES OF A CERTAIN INCLINATION BY THE MUTUAL PRESSURE OF ITS PARTS.
Page 207 - I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists until recently entertained, and which I formerly entertained, namely, that each species has been independently created, is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable...
Page 207 - ... been stated that I attribute the modification of species exclusively to natural selection, I may be permitted to remark that in the first edition of this work, and subsequently, I placed in a most conspicuous position — namely, at the close of the Introduction the following words : "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification.
Page 264 - He being thus lorded, Not only with what my revenue yielded. But what my power might else exact, — like one Who having unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie...
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