| Evangelical Alliance. Conference - 1868 - 788 páginas
...religious centres of this country, Geneva, Lausanne, and NeucMtel. What these three little cantons, which have played so important a part in the history of the Eeformation, have in common is, faith : and here, if compared with France, the advantage will certainly... | |
| William Dexter Wilson - 1871 - 312 páginas
...also easily perverted and misguided, as we see in the various forms of polytheism and idolatry that have played so important a part in the history of the world. If properly guided, exercised and expressed in word and act, they grow in strength and intensity, like... | |
| 1885 - 900 páginas
...inventions ; but long before he existed the land was, in fact, regularly plowed by earth-worms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which...so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures." * Now, without denying the very important contribution of the... | |
| Linnean Society of New South Wales - 1882 - 1006 páginas
...modified by their work. So that we may accept in. its widest significance his remark that " it may be doubted whether there are many other animals which...so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly creatures." organization. He stated as his opinion that it would in all probability... | |
| William Dexter Wilson - 1880 - 412 páginas
...also easily perverted and misguided, as we see in the various forms of polytheism and idolatry that have played so important a part in the history of the world. If properly guided, exercised and expressed in word and act, they grow in strength and intensity, like... | |
| Andrew Findlater - 1881 - 184 páginas
...almost everywhere covers the surface of the laud with a fairly well defined layer or mantle. ... It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which...so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organised creatures.' Corals have perhaps done more conspicuous work; but their operations... | |
| David Thomas - 1881 - 446 páginas
...the most famous of modern natural philosophers sums up this monograph are as follows : "• It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which...so important a part in the history of the world as have theselowly organised creatures." To appreciate the patience, the discernment, and the penetrating... | |
| 1882 - 816 páginas
...of a man of mind. Mr. Darwin does not hesitate to say (p. 313, and I fully agree with him), ' It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which...so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organised creatures.' The influence of the worm in gradually causing the real or apparent... | |
| Young people - 1882 - 608 páginas
...was in fact regularly ploughed, and still continues to be thus ploughed, and by earth worms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which...so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures. 50 51 just distinguish between light and darkness ; they are... | |
| 1882 - 916 páginas
...most plants which cover so much of the surface of the land. It may, indeed, as Mr. Darwin concludes, "be doubted whether there are many other animals which...so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures." One of the charms of the present work is that it is extremely... | |
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