Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... surely to this truth . The civilised world is learning , thank God , more and more of the importance of physical science ; year by year , thank God , it is learning to live more and more according to those laws of physical science ...
... surely to this truth . The civilised world is learning , thank God , more and more of the importance of physical science ; year by year , thank God , it is learning to live more and more according to those laws of physical science ...
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... surely crumbling the whole of Northern Europe and America to powder . Do you doubt me ? I say nothing but what you can judge of yourselves . The next time you go up any mountain , look at the loose broken stones with which the top is ...
... surely crumbling the whole of Northern Europe and America to powder . Do you doubt me ? I say nothing but what you can judge of yourselves . The next time you go up any mountain , look at the loose broken stones with which the top is ...
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... surely say - If this be granite , it has most probably come from a granite mountain ; if this be grit , from a grit- stone mountain , and so on with the whole list . Why are we to go out of our way to seek improbable explanations , when ...
... surely say - If this be granite , it has most probably come from a granite mountain ; if this be grit , from a grit- stone mountain , and so on with the whole list . Why are we to go out of our way to seek improbable explanations , when ...
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... surely , roll a boulder stone a hundred miles . Now , suppose that there was a force , an agent , known - luckily for you , not to you - but known too well to sailors and travellers ; a force which is at work over the vast sheets of ...
... surely , roll a boulder stone a hundred miles . Now , suppose that there was a force , an agent , known - luckily for you , not to you - but known too well to sailors and travellers ; a force which is at work over the vast sheets of ...
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... and dry on mountain ridges and promontories , upon rocks of a totally different kind . Some of my readers surely recollect Wordsworth's noble lines about these mysterious wanderers , of which he had seen many a 58 [ 11 . TOWN GEOLOGY .
... and dry on mountain ridges and promontories , upon rocks of a totally different kind . Some of my readers surely recollect Wordsworth's noble lines about these mysterious wanderers , of which he had seen many a 58 [ 11 . TOWN GEOLOGY .
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