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A parish where life is precarious pays more poor-rates than its neighbors.

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The organic creation, as we now see it...was not placed upon the earth at once;—it observed a PROGRESS.

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The limbs of all the vertebrate animals are, in like manner, on one plan, however various they may appear.

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The book, as far as I am aware, is the first attempt to connect the natural sciences into a history of creation.

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I believe my doctrines to be in the main true; I believe all truth to be valuable, and its dissemination a blessing.

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Indifference to life and indifference to the purity and amenity that sweeten existence must necessarily go together.

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Pause and reflect; take time into consideration: the past history of mankind may be, to what is to come, but as a day.

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Geology fully proves that organic creation passed through a series of stages before the highest vegetable and animal forms appeared.

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The probability may now be assumed that the human race sprung from one stock which was at first in a state of simplicity if not barbarism.

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The law of organic development is still daily seen at work to certain effects, only somewhat short of a transition from species to species.

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Zoophyta, polyparia, crinoidea, conchifera, and crustacea are the orders of the animal kingdom thus found in the earliest of earth's sepulchres.

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We cannot doubt after what we know of the power of heat that the nebulous form of matter was attended by the condition of a very high temperature.

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Let the reconciliation of whatever is true in my views with whatever is true in other systems come about in the fulness of calm and careful inquiry.

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It appears from this inquiry that color and other physiological characters are of a more superficial and accidental nature than was at one time supposed.

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Of late years... it has been successfully shewn that the human race might have had one origin, for anything that can be inferred from external peculiarities.

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The style of living is ascertained to have a powerful effect in modifying the human figure in the course of generations, and this even in its osseous structure.

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One important remark has been made, that a comparatively small variety of species is found in the older rocks, although of some particular ones the remains are very abundant...

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We are drawn on to the supposition, that the first step in the creation of life upon this planet was a chemico-electric operation, by which simple germinal vesicles were produced.

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There is of course no extraordinary fact resting on testimony only, of which it is not possible to presume some error in the observation or reporting, if we be set upon finding one.

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Mr. Babbage's illustration powerfully suggests that this ordinary procedure may be subordinate to a higher law which only permits it for a time, and in proper season interrupts and changes it.

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My sincere desire in the composition of the book was to give the true view of the history of nature, with as little disturbance as possible to existing beliefs, whether philosophical or religious.

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The first idea which all this impresses upon us is, that the formation of bodies in space is still and at present in progress. We live at a time when many have been formed and many are still forming.

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