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... order of nature . Though we may rightly object to the attempt which is sometimes made to decry the modern teachings of biology as not being " exact science , " yet we may boldly admit the truth of the assertion that we biologists are ...
... order of nature . Though we may rightly object to the attempt which is sometimes made to decry the modern teachings of biology as not being " exact science , " yet we may boldly admit the truth of the assertion that we biologists are ...
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... order to sell them to civilisation , gather- ing the golden fruit which she has neither planted nor tended . Invention follows , it is true , the foot- steps of Science , but at a distance : she is utterly devoid of that thriftless ...
... order to sell them to civilisation , gather- ing the golden fruit which she has neither planted nor tended . Invention follows , it is true , the foot- steps of Science , but at a distance : she is utterly devoid of that thriftless ...
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... order they were strangers to the universal har- mony prevailing around them . Fact upon fact was observed and recorded by students of plants and animals , but having no hypothesis as to the causes of what they were studying , the ...
... order they were strangers to the universal har- mony prevailing around them . Fact upon fact was observed and recorded by students of plants and animals , but having no hypothesis as to the causes of what they were studying , the ...
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... Order of Nature . It is a very general popular belief at the present day that the Darwinian theory is simply no more than a capricious and anti - theological assertion that mankind are the modified descendants of ape - like ancestors ...
... Order of Nature . It is a very general popular belief at the present day that the Darwinian theory is simply no more than a capricious and anti - theological assertion that mankind are the modified descendants of ape - like ancestors ...
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... order of nature - so far that all the great facts of the universe , the constitution and movements of the heavenly bodies , the form of our earth , and all the peculiarities of its crust , had been successfully assigned to one set of ...
... order of nature - so far that all the great facts of the universe , the constitution and movements of the heavenly bodies , the form of our earth , and all the peculiarities of its crust , had been successfully assigned to one set of ...
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The Advancement of Science: Occasional Essays & Addresses Sir Edwin Ray Lankester Vista completa - 1890 |
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