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... remarkable instincts as that " which stances , Mr. Darwin admits that he " doubts whether any leads the cuckoo to lay her eggs in other birds ' nests , " as the case of a perfectly fertile hybrid animal can be considered as " slave ...
... remarkable instincts as that " which stances , Mr. Darwin admits that he " doubts whether any leads the cuckoo to lay her eggs in other birds ' nests , " as the case of a perfectly fertile hybrid animal can be considered as " slave ...
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... remarkable dispersion it is observed , that the existing natural areas are mostly continuous , and that when they are not , they have probably been broken up by subsidences or elevations ; that the means of dispersal of all kinds of ...
... remarkable dispersion it is observed , that the existing natural areas are mostly continuous , and that when they are not , they have probably been broken up by subsidences or elevations ; that the means of dispersal of all kinds of ...
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... remarkable as a literary effort . With the deepest interest we follow the author through a series of adventurous journeys extending over 3,000 leagues of territory , and ranging along a coast line measuring some 1,500 miles , embracing ...
... remarkable as a literary effort . With the deepest interest we follow the author through a series of adventurous journeys extending over 3,000 leagues of territory , and ranging along a coast line measuring some 1,500 miles , embracing ...
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... remarkable discovery is that of the existence in Eastern Africa , within two or three degrees of the equator , of mountains covered with perpetual snow , - mountains amongst which , in all probability , lie the long- sought sources of ...
... remarkable discovery is that of the existence in Eastern Africa , within two or three degrees of the equator , of mountains covered with perpetual snow , - mountains amongst which , in all probability , lie the long- sought sources of ...
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... remarkable sensation amongst the legal confraternity , and which gives such an insight into their professional ANNA TOKER ( née De Burgh ) , at 2 , Belgrave - road , Eccleston - square , London . valu - practices , is now published for ...
... remarkable sensation amongst the legal confraternity , and which gives such an insight into their professional ANNA TOKER ( née De Burgh ) , at 2 , Belgrave - road , Eccleston - square , London . valu - practices , is now published for ...
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Страница 1 - I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
Страница 7 - 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.
Страница 6 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction ; Inheritance which is almost implied by Reproduction ; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse...
Страница 7 - Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide.
Страница 14 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground...
Страница 29 - Seeva laid wait for me. I came suddenly upon Isis and Osiris : I had done a deed, they said, which the ibis and the crocodile trembled at.
Страница 7 - It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of the attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, "as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.
Страница 29 - Deeper than ever plummet sounded," I lay inactive. Then, like a chorus, the passion deepened. Some greater interest was at stake ; some mightier cause than ever yet the sword had pleaded, or trumpet had proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms ; hurryings to and fro ; trepidations of innumerable fugitives.
Страница 29 - ... heartbreaking partings, and then — everlasting farewells! and, with a sigh such as the caves of hell sighed when the incestuous mother uttered the abhorred name of Death, the sound was reverberated — everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated — everlasting farewells! And I awoke in struggles, and cried aloud, "I will sleep no more!
Страница 11 - Their Superiority in the ART of LANDSCAPE PAINTING to all the Ancient Masters, proved by examples of the True, the Beautiful, and the Intellectual, from the Works of Modern Artists, especially from those of JM Turner, Esq., RA By a GRADUATE of OXFORD.