The childhood of religionsD. Appleton, 1875 - 288 páginas |
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... kind If you had not learnt anything from books and other helps about the roundness of the earth and its movements in space , and had been shut up all your life in some wide plain where no hills broke the long , low line around , and ...
... kind If you had not learnt anything from books and other helps about the roundness of the earth and its movements in space , and had been shut up all your life in some wide plain where no hills broke the long , low line around , and ...
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... kind that are at this moment forming chalk beds at the bottom of our oceans . A layer of chalk one foot thick is not heaped up in less than one hundred years and it probably takes a much longer time , so that , as the chalk beds in some ...
... kind that are at this moment forming chalk beds at the bottom of our oceans . A layer of chalk one foot thick is not heaped up in less than one hundred years and it probably takes a much longer time , so that , as the chalk beds in some ...
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... kind , but in different states . In the sun and his fellow - suns , the stars , it is white- hot ; on the earth and some other planets ( Mars , for example , on which a good telescope clearly shows the division of land and water and the ...
... kind , but in different states . In the sun and his fellow - suns , the stars , it is white- hot ; on the earth and some other planets ( Mars , for example , on which a good telescope clearly shows the division of land and water and the ...
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... kind . of picture - writing was invented , the mind of man busily speculating how that which he saw had come to pass , and not less , but rather more , would he wonder whence and how he him- self had come ; and out of that wonderment ...
... kind . of picture - writing was invented , the mind of man busily speculating how that which he saw had come to pass , and not less , but rather more , would he wonder whence and how he him- self had come ; and out of that wonderment ...
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... kind- ness towards them , but a great gulf , as it seems to me , divides the two . Brutes have not , in the strict meaning of the term as we use it , a moral sense , or voice within which speaks to them of the rightness or wrongness of ...
... kind- ness towards them , but a great gulf , as it seems to me , divides the two . Brutes have not , in the strict meaning of the term as we use it , a moral sense , or voice within which speaks to them of the rightness or wrongness of ...
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