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... never be sure that we have taken due notice of all the innumerable concrete cir- cumstances involved in such an event . The theory , therefore , cannot be adequately tested by any single striking instance , but must depend for its sup ...
... never be sure that we have taken due notice of all the innumerable concrete cir- cumstances involved in such an event . The theory , therefore , cannot be adequately tested by any single striking instance , but must depend for its sup ...
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... never urged his hypothesis in this limited shape . The essential theorems of Darwinism are , first , that forms of life now widely unlike have been produced from a common original through the accumulated in- heritance of minute ...
... never urged his hypothesis in this limited shape . The essential theorems of Darwinism are , first , that forms of life now widely unlike have been produced from a common original through the accumulated in- heritance of minute ...
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... never have been doubted for a moment but for the inability of naturalists to under- stand how the type which appears so constant , when viewed through a short period of time and amid un- changing conditions , should after all be ...
... never have been doubted for a moment but for the inability of naturalists to under- stand how the type which appears so constant , when viewed through a short period of time and amid un- changing conditions , should after all be ...
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... never have occurred to him . Along with this inability to appreciate disinter- ested thinking , Mr. Mivart has one or two other peculiarities which , taken together , give him a real genius for twisting things . He is characterised by a ...
... never have occurred to him . Along with this inability to appreciate disinter- ested thinking , Mr. Mivart has one or two other peculiarities which , taken together , give him a real genius for twisting things . He is characterised by a ...
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... never gone out of their way to detect an historical substratum for Reynard or Æsop , or to hunt from its obscurity the Leibnitzian story of the Latin - speaking dog ; there are some of them , we fear , who would even , on general ...
... never gone out of their way to detect an historical substratum for Reynard or Æsop , or to hunt from its obscurity the Leibnitzian story of the Latin - speaking dog ; there are some of them , we fear , who would even , on general ...
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