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... portion of his argument against the belief in the supernatural ( The Old Faith and New , sect . 48 ) . This deep - sea ooze he made the bridge between the inorganic and the organic . " At least two miracles or revelations , " wrote Jean ...
... portion of his argument against the belief in the supernatural ( The Old Faith and New , sect . 48 ) . This deep - sea ooze he made the bridge between the inorganic and the organic . " At least two miracles or revelations , " wrote Jean ...
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... portions of modern literature . The vision of what lies behind natural law constitutes the hushed " open secret , " which throws the Goethes and Richters , and Car- lyles and Brownings , and Tennysons and Emersons , and ought to throw ...
... portions of modern literature . The vision of what lies behind natural law constitutes the hushed " open secret , " which throws the Goethes and Richters , and Car- lyles and Brownings , and Tennysons and Emersons , and ought to throw ...
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... portion of the system : increased cephalization is the law of the progress of animal forms ; and , the moment you compare man and the ape on that strategic point , the difference is half . Thirty - four cubic inches of cranial capacity ...
... portion of the system : increased cephalization is the law of the progress of animal forms ; and , the moment you compare man and the ape on that strategic point , the difference is half . Thirty - four cubic inches of cranial capacity ...
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... portions of the cell and the cell - wall . Why , Pro- fessor Huxley himself , down to 1853 , considered the core of the cell as of little importance , and as having no peculiar office ( " The Cell - Theory , " Medical Chir . Rev ...
... portions of the cell and the cell - wall . Why , Pro- fessor Huxley himself , down to 1853 , considered the core of the cell as of little importance , and as having no peculiar office ( " The Cell - Theory , " Medical Chir . Rev ...
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... portion is always a bioplast . 7. That nutrient matter for the bioplasts may con- sist of inorganic matter , or of formed matter . 8. That the bioplasts convert the nutrient into living matter , and the living into formed matter . 9 ...
... portion is always a bioplast . 7. That nutrient matter for the bioplasts may con- sist of inorganic matter , or of formed matter . 8. That the bioplasts convert the nutrient into living matter , and the living into formed matter . 9 ...
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