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... whole system is gone , and he has not so much as a mathematical point to rest his foot upon . His fundamental organic globule , and the petit corps gélatineux of his great archetype , Lamarck , are one and the same thing , without which ...
... whole system is gone , and he has not so much as a mathematical point to rest his foot upon . His fundamental organic globule , and the petit corps gélatineux of his great archetype , Lamarck , are one and the same thing , without which ...
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... whole race of crowing gallinaceous philosophers who were progressively developed in the central parts of our great southern capital ; nay , that the same fecundating compound has found its way to the west of Temple - Bar , and created ...
... whole race of crowing gallinaceous philosophers who were progressively developed in the central parts of our great southern capital ; nay , that the same fecundating compound has found its way to the west of Temple - Bar , and created ...
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... whole visible heavens , and is preparing for the world a work which will give us all that consummate skill and art can re- present to the senses , combined with all the great results which a knowledge of the highest physics can fairly ...
... whole visible heavens , and is preparing for the world a work which will give us all that consummate skill and art can re- present to the senses , combined with all the great results which a knowledge of the highest physics can fairly ...
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... whole mass within it . In such a case , by a further contraction , a nebu- lar ring might be thrown off ; and if several rings were thus thrown off , they must , by a physical necessity implied in the very condition of their existence ...
... whole mass within it . In such a case , by a further contraction , a nebu- lar ring might be thrown off ; and if several rings were thus thrown off , they must , by a physical necessity implied in the very condition of their existence ...
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... whole mass remains the same . Hence if the sun were suddenly expanded to the limits of our atmosphere , the earth would go on ( for we will suppose her not to be dissipated by heat ) just as she did before . And , in like manner , were ...
... whole mass remains the same . Hence if the sun were suddenly expanded to the limits of our atmosphere , the earth would go on ( for we will suppose her not to be dissipated by heat ) just as she did before . And , in like manner , were ...
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