The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Data, Its Principles, Its Speculations, and Its Theistic BearingsHarper & Brothers, 1874 - 148 pages |
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... Similar Influences not followed by similar Results . ( c ) Similar Influences followed by different Results . ( d ) Organic Modifications have regard to Ideal Con- cepts . ( aa ) Diverse Conformation under identical Condi- tions . ( bb ) ...
... Similar Influences not followed by similar Results . ( c ) Similar Influences followed by different Results . ( d ) Organic Modifications have regard to Ideal Con- cepts . ( aa ) Diverse Conformation under identical Condi- tions . ( bb ) ...
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... trachytic rocks of New Mexico and Ari- zona are so extremely similar to recent lavas erupted from the throats of volcanoes , that every geologist feels 18 EVOLUTION , AND ITS been set up in the system of existence. Cosmogony ...
... trachytic rocks of New Mexico and Ari- zona are so extremely similar to recent lavas erupted from the throats of volcanoes , that every geologist feels 18 EVOLUTION , AND ITS been set up in the system of existence. Cosmogony ...
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... similar in intensity to that of our solar orb . The very contrasts in the colors of the stars suggest incan- descence of different degrees of intensity . The tele- scope discerns some in a state of extraordinary tenu- ity , such as ...
... similar in intensity to that of our solar orb . The very contrasts in the colors of the stars suggest incan- descence of different degrees of intensity . The tele- scope discerns some in a state of extraordinary tenu- ity , such as ...
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... Similar relationships of plan are seen running through the whole history of articulates , molluscs , and radiates . These facts , so compatible with theories of derivation , are strong- ly insisted upon by the defenders of those ...
... Similar relationships of plan are seen running through the whole history of articulates , molluscs , and radiates . These facts , so compatible with theories of derivation , are strong- ly insisted upon by the defenders of those ...
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... similar doubts have not been expressed of the strict identity of the earlier and later forms . It should also be stated that both these species have a very wide geo- graphical range , having been first discovered and named in Europe ...
... similar doubts have not been expressed of the strict identity of the earlier and later forms . It should also be stated that both these species have a very wide geo- graphical range , having been first discovered and named in Europe ...
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Page 119 - 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.