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" ... too large to build withal the finest fabrics of the nascent organism. And then, it is as if a delicate finger traced out the line to be occupied by the spinal column, and moulded the contour of the body ; pinching up the head at one end, the tail... "
The Divine Pedigree of Man: Or, The Testimony of Evolution and Psychology to ... - Page 275
by Thomson Jay Hudson - 1899 - 379 pages
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Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art ...

1864 - 382 pages
...to those operated by a skilful modeller upon a formless lump of clay. As with an invisible Irowel, the mass is divided and subdivided into smaller and...some more subtle aid to vision than an achromatic glass would show the hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skilful manipulation to...
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in ..., Volume 15

1865 - 372 pages
...up the head at one end, the tail at the other, and fashioning flank and limb into due salamandrinc proportions, in so artistic a way that, after watching...some more subtle aid to vision than an achromatic glass would show the hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skilful manipulation to...
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Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art ...

1867 - 378 pages
...and purpose-like in their succession, that one can only compare them to those operated by a skilful modeller upon a formless lump of clay. As with an...some more subtle aid to vision than an achromatic glass would show the hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skilful manipulation to...
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Outlook and Independent, Volume 55

1897 - 1166 pages
...then, it is as if a delicate finger traced out the line to be occupied by the spinal column, and molded the contour of the body : pinching up the head at...hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skillful manipulation to perfect his work. That is the account of an evolutionary process by an evolutionist...
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New Outlook, Volume 61

1899 - 998 pages
...occupied by the spinal column and molded the contour of the body ; pinching up the head at one end and the tail at the other, and fashioning flank and limb...hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skillful manipulation to perfect his work. There is in man something higher than an achromatic —...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 32

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1873 - 958 pages
...the marks of apparent design at each successive step of the process, he closes with the remark : " One is almost involuntarily possessed by the notion,...hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skillful manipulation to perfect his work." Again, in speaking of the perfected work of his artist,...
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The New Englander, Volume 32

1873 - 808 pages
...the marks of apparent design at each successive step of the process, he closes with the remark : " One is almost involuntarily possessed by the notion,...hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skillful manipulation to perfect his work." Again, in speaking of the perfected work of his artist,...
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The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer: Being an Examination of the First ...

Borden Parker Bowne - 1874 - 294 pages
...the language. Mr. Huxley, too, in speaking of the development of a salamander from the egg, says : " After watching the process, hour by hour, one is almost...hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skillful manipulation to perfect his work." At every unguarded minute, the most cautious and skeptical...
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The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer: Being an Examination of the First ...

Borden Parker Bowne - 1874 - 300 pages
...the language. Mr. Huxley, too, in speaking of the development of a salamander from the egg, says : " After watching the process, hour by hour, one is almost...hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skillful manipulation to perfect his work." At every unguarded minute, the most cautious and skeptical...
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Some Modern Difficulties: Nine Lectures

Sabine Baring-Gould - 1875 - 200 pages
...the other, and fashioning flank and limb into due salamandrine proportions, in so artistic a fashion, that, after watching the process hour by hour, one...some more subtle aid to vision than an achromatic lens would show the hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skilful manipulation to...
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