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Page 31
... look toward Bunker Hill in the morning , and notice whether , in the night , the monu- ment had walked into the sea . If any do not care to puzzle themselves with either the shrill and shallow , or with the more quiet and profound ...
... look toward Bunker Hill in the morning , and notice whether , in the night , the monu- ment had walked into the sea . If any do not care to puzzle themselves with either the shrill and shallow , or with the more quiet and profound ...
Page 40
... look outside of matter , they can have no knowledge of a first cause . " Give me mat- ter , " said Kant , " and I will explain the formation of a world ; but give me matter only , and I cannot explain the formation of a caterpillar ...
... look outside of matter , they can have no knowledge of a first cause . " Give me mat- ter , " said Kant , " and I will explain the formation of a world ; but give me matter only , and I cannot explain the formation of a caterpillar ...
Page 56
... to admit life until about one hun- dred millions of years ago , as Dana says . When we look at the reasons why Professor Huxley sneers at this argument , we are the more amazed . " The biologist , " he says , " knows 56 BIOLOGY .
... to admit life until about one hun- dred millions of years ago , as Dana says . When we look at the reasons why Professor Huxley sneers at this argument , we are the more amazed . " The biologist , " he says , " knows 56 BIOLOGY .
Page 63
... look on it , I think what a bowlder that man may have carried on his breast into his grave , because he was not able to develop the proposition which he laid down as a gantlet before Darwinism in the last article he ever printed . You ...
... look on it , I think what a bowlder that man may have carried on his breast into his grave , because he was not able to develop the proposition which he laid down as a gantlet before Darwinism in the last article he ever printed . You ...
Page 74
... look into these cells , which Häckel and Büchner and Moleschott say originate the soul . Ca- banis , as Carlyle narrates with grimmest humor , thought the brain secreted soul as the liver does bile . This philosophy , and the gospel ...
... look into these cells , which Häckel and Büchner and Moleschott say originate the soul . Ca- banis , as Carlyle narrates with grimmest humor , thought the brain secreted soul as the liver does bile . This philosophy , and the gospel ...
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