The childhood of religionsD. Appleton, 1875 - 288 páginas |
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... worked and fought , and explored the caverns which from early times gave shelter to man and beast ; they have opened great earth - mounds and tombs for remains of the dead laid within them ; CHAP . I. ] 5 INTRODUCTORY .
... worked and fought , and explored the caverns which from early times gave shelter to man and beast ; they have opened great earth - mounds and tombs for remains of the dead laid within them ; CHAP . I. ] 5 INTRODUCTORY .
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Edward Clodd. tombs for remains of the dead laid within them ; they have spelled out the picture - words painted on the walls of temples choked with the drifted sand of centuries , the wedge - shaped letters cut on rocks and stamped on ...
Edward Clodd. tombs for remains of the dead laid within them ; they have spelled out the picture - words painted on the walls of temples choked with the drifted sand of centuries , the wedge - shaped letters cut on rocks and stamped on ...
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... remains of the past which are found deep down in the earth , and although many books have been written with the view of showing that there is no real contradiction , each has failed to prove this . 16 [ CHAP . II . LEGENDS OF THE PAST.
... remains of the past which are found deep down in the earth , and although many books have been written with the view of showing that there is no real contradiction , each has failed to prove this . 16 [ CHAP . II . LEGENDS OF THE PAST.
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... remains of once - living animals and plants : the fire - fused rocks containing no traces of such remains . It is this crust which tells so surely the story of those vast , changes of which the earth has been the scene , and which are ...
... remains of once - living animals and plants : the fire - fused rocks containing no traces of such remains . It is this crust which tells so surely the story of those vast , changes of which the earth has been the scene , and which are ...
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... the deepest layers of rocks , which of course are the oldest , yield fossils of the lowest forms of life , forms so faint that whether they be the remains of plant or of animal , or of both , is uncertain CHAP . IV . ] 51 ABOUT MANKIND .
... the deepest layers of rocks , which of course are the oldest , yield fossils of the lowest forms of life , forms so faint that whether they be the remains of plant or of animal , or of both , is uncertain CHAP . IV . ] 51 ABOUT MANKIND .
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