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Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement

Clodd, Edward, 1840-1930· 5 chapters· 70,562 words

"Nature, which governs the whole, will soon change all things which thou seest, and out of their substance will make other things, and again other things from the substance of them, in order that the world may be ever new." _Marcus Aurelius_, vii, 25.

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3. PART IV.

"Nature, which governs the whole, will soon change all things which thou seest, and out of their substance will make other things, and again other things from the substance of t...

5. did. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding

general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend I cannot conceive....

4. part xxvi, pp. 14, 15). With this may be compared a Mohammedan receipt

for summoning spirits given in Klunzinger's Upper Egypt (p. 386): "Fast seven days in a lonely place, and take incense with you. Read a chapter 1001 times from the Koran. That i...

2. PART II.

1. PART I.