Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... vast machine , ruthless though beneficent , among the wheels of which if we entangle ourselves in our rash ignorance , they will not stop to set us free , but crush us , as they have crushed whole nations and whole races ere now , to ...
... vast machine , ruthless though beneficent , among the wheels of which if we entangle ourselves in our rash ignorance , they will not stop to set us free , but crush us , as they have crushed whole nations and whole races ere now , to ...
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... vast ignorance com- pared with the vast amount that there is to be learned in such a universe as this . Men who are accustomed to look at both sides of a question ; who , instead of making up their minds in haste like bigots and ...
... vast ignorance com- pared with the vast amount that there is to be learned in such a universe as this . Men who are accustomed to look at both sides of a question ; who , instead of making up their minds in haste like bigots and ...
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... 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 cultivable soil . So much for the mechanical action of rain , in the shape of ...
... 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 cultivable soil . So much for the mechanical action of rain , in the shape of ...
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... vast sheets of land at both the north and south poles ; at work , too , on every high mountain range in the world , and therefore a very common natural force ; and suppose that this force would explain all the facts , namely— How the ...
... vast sheets of land at both the north and south poles ; at work , too , on every high mountain range in the world , and therefore a very common natural force ; and suppose that this force would explain all the facts , namely— How the ...
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... vast deposits of boulder and shingle , which would be in time sawn through and sorted over by the rivers . And if the sea - bottom outside were upheaved , and became dry land , we should find on it the remains . of the mud from under ...
... vast deposits of boulder and shingle , which would be in time sawn through and sorted over by the rivers . And if the sea - bottom outside were upheaved , and became dry land , we should find on it the remains . of the mud from under ...
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