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... masses of protoplasm . 1. To this amazingly strategic and haughtily trumpeted substance found at the lowest bottoms of the oceans Huxley gave the scientific name Bathybius , from two Greek words meaning deep 1 and sea , and assumed that ...
... masses of protoplasm . 1. To this amazingly strategic and haughtily trumpeted substance found at the lowest bottoms of the oceans Huxley gave the scientific name Bathybius , from two Greek words meaning deep 1 and sea , and assumed that ...
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... mass of slime , with many foreign bodies and the débris of living organisms which have passed away . Numer- ous ... mass , which , so far as our present knowl- edge goes , is the common foundation of all life . " As , by his own ...
... mass of slime , with many foreign bodies and the débris of living organisms which have passed away . Numer- ous ... mass , which , so far as our present knowl- edge goes , is the common foundation of all life . " As , by his own ...
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... mass not only exists , but is the foundation of all life , is contradictory of his published retraction of his theory before scholars . The observed Bathy- bius having turned out to be a myth , its place is now occupied by an ...
... mass not only exists , but is the foundation of all life , is contradictory of his published retraction of his theory before scholars . The observed Bathy- bius having turned out to be a myth , its place is now occupied by an ...
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... mass , at which we should " arrive " by a process of investigation carried backward to the first living organisms ... mass is " the foundation of all life . " In view of his recantation as to this sheet of living matter beneath the seas ...
... mass , at which we should " arrive " by a process of investigation carried backward to the first living organisms ... mass is " the foundation of all life . " In view of his recantation as to this sheet of living matter beneath the seas ...
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... mass , and how many years since it was that the globe was in a fused state ; and it is very significant that he came to the same conclusion in both cases . The two con- clusions tallied . The sun , he said , must have been in a molten ...
... mass , and how many years since it was that the globe was in a fused state ; and it is very significant that he came to the same conclusion in both cases . The two con- clusions tallied . The sun , he said , must have been in a molten ...
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