Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... explains to us the rind of the earth ; of what it is made ; how it has been made . It tells us nothing of the mass of the earth . That is , properly speaking , an astronomical question . If I may be allowed to liken this earth to a ...
... explains to us the rind of the earth ; of what it is made ; how it has been made . It tells us nothing of the mass of the earth . That is , properly speaking , an astronomical question . If I may be allowed to liken this earth to a ...
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... explains the one will not explain the other also . Sometimes it will ; sometimes it will not . But if it will , no one has a right to ask you to try any other explanation . دو Suppose , for instance , that you found a dead bird on the ...
... explains the one will not explain the other also . Sometimes it will ; sometimes it will not . But if it will , no one has a right to ask you to try any other explanation . دو Suppose , for instance , that you found a dead bird on the ...
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... explain merely how a dead bird got here , but how a dead humming - bird . " And now , if your imaginative friend chimed in triumphantly with : " Do you not see that I was right after all ? Do you not see that it fell from the clouds ...
... explain merely how a dead bird got here , but how a dead humming - bird . " And now , if your imaginative friend chimed in triumphantly with : " Do you not see that I was right after all ? Do you not see that it fell from the clouds ...
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... explained , if possible , by the changes which are taking place now in the most recent deposits in the soil of the field . And in the last forty years - since that great and sound idea has become rooted in the minds of students , and ...
... explained , if possible , by the changes which are taking place now in the most recent deposits in the soil of the field . And in the last forty years - since that great and sound idea has become rooted in the minds of students , and ...
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Charles Kingsley. known to the unknown , and show you how to explain the latter by the former . Sir Charles Lyell has , I see , in the new edition of his " Student's Elements of Geology , " begun his book with the uppermost , that is ...
Charles Kingsley. known to the unknown , and show you how to explain the latter by the former . Sir Charles Lyell has , I see , in the new edition of his " Student's Elements of Geology , " begun his book with the uppermost , that is ...
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