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When , in opposition to every possible criterion , a man claims that there is but “
one ultimate form of matter out of which successively the more complex forms of
matter are built up , ” is this the advance march of chemistry or the retrograde to ...
When , in opposition to every possible criterion , a man claims that there is but “
one ultimate form of matter out of which successively the more complex forms of
matter are built up , ” is this the advance march of chemistry or the retrograde to ...
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Comte may not put his extinguisher upon the great underlying verities of our
being , nor Tyndall jump the iron track of his own principles to smuggle into
matter a “ potency and promise ” of all “ life . ” Huxley cannot play fast and loose
with ...
Comte may not put his extinguisher upon the great underlying verities of our
being , nor Tyndall jump the iron track of his own principles to smuggle into
matter a “ potency and promise ” of all “ life . ” Huxley cannot play fast and loose
with ...
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He ought to have informed himself ; and the graver the matter the more culpable
the neglect ; yes , the graver the matter , often , as in case of a last will and
testament , the more rigid the demand . And in the sphere of moral delinquencies
, of a ...
He ought to have informed himself ; and the graver the matter the more culpable
the neglect ; yes , the graver the matter , often , as in case of a last will and
testament , the more rigid the demand . And in the sphere of moral delinquencies
, of a ...
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When a rigid scientist and luminous thinker like John Tyndall proclaims to the
world , “ I discern in the matter which we have hitherto covered with opprobrium
the promise and potency of every form and quality of life , ” what shall we say of
this ...
When a rigid scientist and luminous thinker like John Tyndall proclaims to the
world , “ I discern in the matter which we have hitherto covered with opprobrium
the promise and potency of every form and quality of life , ” what shall we say of
this ...
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... a child of the pithecanthropos at the first remove and of a monera at the twenty
- first ; that the whole animal world sprang from Bathybius , your primeval sea -
slime ; that dead matter is endowed with the power of life and thought , so that the
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... a child of the pithecanthropos at the first remove and of a monera at the twenty
- first ; that the whole animal world sprang from Bathybius , your primeval sea -
slime ; that dead matter is endowed with the power of life and thought , so that the
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