Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... probably all of you , as you ought and must if you are Britons , think much of social and political questions therefore , I say , I entreat you to cultivate the scientific spirit by which alone you can judge justly of those questions ...
... probably all of you , as you ought and must if you are Britons , think much of social and political questions therefore , I say , I entreat you to cultivate the scientific spirit by which alone you can judge justly of those questions ...
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... probably at work since the creation of the world ; and that whatever changes may seem to have taken place in past ages , and in ancient rocks , should be explained , if possible , by the changes which are taking place now in the most ...
... probably at work since the creation of the world ; and that whatever changes may seem to have taken place in past ages , and in ancient rocks , should be explained , if possible , by the changes which are taking place now in the most ...
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... probably put there first . And I said " most probably , " because it is most probable that in nature we should find things done by the method which costs least force , just as you do them . I will warrant that when you want to hide a ...
... probably put there first . And I said " most probably , " because it is most probable that in nature we should find things done by the method which costs least force , just as you do them . I will warrant that when you want to hide a ...
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... probably frost alone , has hewn out such a peak as the Matterhorn from some vast tableland ; and is hewing it down still , winter after winter , till some day , where the snow Alps now stand , there shall be rolling uplands of rich ...
... probably frost alone , has hewn out such a peak as the Matterhorn from some vast tableland ; and is hewing it down still , winter after winter , till some day , where the snow Alps now stand , there shall be rolling uplands of rich ...
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... probably once covered by a shallow sea , and their soils made as the soil of any tide - flat is being made now ? But you may say , and most reasonably , " The tide- flats are just at the sea - level . The whole of the lowland is many ...
... probably once covered by a shallow sea , and their soils made as the soil of any tide - flat is being made now ? But you may say , and most reasonably , " The tide- flats are just at the sea - level . The whole of the lowland is many ...
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