Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... land , to keep it all from rotting , a sufficient number of wise men to form a true working aristocracy , an aristocracy of sound and rational science ? If they be strong enough ( and they are growing stronger day by day over the ...
... land , to keep it all from rotting , a sufficient number of wise men to form a true working aristocracy , an aristocracy of sound and rational science ? If they be strong enough ( and they are growing stronger day by day over the ...
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... land and water . Let him read that truly noble Christian work , Maury's " Physical Geography of the Sea ; " and see , if he be a truly rational man , how advanced science , instead of disproving , has only corroborated St. Paul's ...
... land and water . Let him read that truly noble Christian work , Maury's " Physical Geography of the Sea ; " and see , if he be a truly rational man , how advanced science , instead of disproving , has only corroborated St. Paul's ...
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... land surface with trees again growing in it ; and under all the main bottom clay of the district — what would common sense tell you ? I leave you to discover for yourselves . It certainly would not tell you that those trees were thrust ...
... land surface with trees again growing in it ; and under all the main bottom clay of the district — what would common sense tell you ? I leave you to discover for yourselves . It certainly would not tell you that those trees were thrust ...
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... land of this planet , were it not baffled by another counteracting force , of which I shall speak hereafter . As you go on beyond the sea - wall , you find what it is eating up . The whole low cliff is going visibly . But whither is it ...
... land of this planet , were it not baffled by another counteracting force , of which I shall speak hereafter . As you go on beyond the sea - wall , you find what it is eating up . The whole low cliff is going visibly . But whither is it ...
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... land out of it ; and that it must have been doing so , as long as rain , rivers , and seas have existed . " But how did the first land of all get made ? " I can only reply : A natural question : but we can only answer that , by working ...
... land out of it ; and that it must have been doing so , as long as rain , rivers , and seas have existed . " But how did the first land of all get made ? " I can only reply : A natural question : but we can only answer that , by working ...
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