The Connexion of Natural and Divine Truth: Or, The Study of the Inductive Philosophy, Considered as Subservient to Theology |
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... organized nature , and thus sup- ply the main ground of stability to these inductive conclusions . That whenever a new plant or animal is dis- covered , we should never come to any thing ano- malous or at variance with systematic order ...
... organized nature , and thus sup- ply the main ground of stability to these inductive conclusions . That whenever a new plant or animal is dis- covered , we should never come to any thing ano- malous or at variance with systematic order ...
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... organized structures . In fact , to elucidate and develope such principles of uniformity and analogy , has been the very object of the labours of the most eminent naturalists ; and the best proof of the actual prevalence and ad- mirable ...
... organized structures . In fact , to elucidate and develope such principles of uniformity and analogy , has been the very object of the labours of the most eminent naturalists ; and the best proof of the actual prevalence and ad- mirable ...
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... organized life . If , " says Mr. Lyell , " instead of inverting the natural order of inquiry , we cautiously proceed in our investigations , from the known to the unknown , and begin by studying the most modern periods of the earth's ...
... organized life . If , " says Mr. Lyell , " instead of inverting the natural order of inquiry , we cautiously proceed in our investigations , from the known to the unknown , and begin by studying the most modern periods of the earth's ...
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... organized beings of the same species as those now inhabiting the earth : in the earlier beds , where existing species are mixed with extinct : until we arrive in succession at those containing none of the former and all of the latter ...
... organized beings of the same species as those now inhabiting the earth : in the earlier beds , where existing species are mixed with extinct : until we arrive in succession at those containing none of the former and all of the latter ...
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... organized products of the neighbouring seas , and the operations of now existing laws . And whatever may have been the magnitude of some of the operations in remote epochs , yet we find no deviation from the continu- ance of action of ...
... organized products of the neighbouring seas , and the operations of now existing laws . And whatever may have been the magnitude of some of the operations in remote epochs , yet we find no deviation from the continu- ance of action of ...
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