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" But strange possibilities lie dormant in that semi-fluid globule. Let a moderate supply of warmth reach its watery cradle, and the plastic matter undergoes changes so rapid and yet so steady and purposelike in their succession, that one can only compare... "
A Theosophist's Point of View - Page 60
by James Albert Clark - 1901 - 235 pages
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Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art ...

1864 - 382 pages
...fluid, holding granules in suspension. But strange possibilities lie dormant in that semi-fluid globule. Let a moderate supply of warmth reach its watery cradle, and the plastic matter undergoes changes so steady and purpose-like in their succession, that one can only compare them to those operated by a...
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in ..., Volume 15

1865 - 372 pages
...holding granules in suspension. But strange possibilities lie dormant in that semi-fluid globule. liet a moderate supply of warmth reach its watery cradle, and the plastic matter undergoes changes so steady and purpose-like in their succession, that one can only compare them to those operated by a...
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Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art ...

1867 - 378 pages
...fluid, holding granules in suspension. But strange possibilities lie dormant in that semi-fluid globule. Let a moderate supply of warmth reach its wate.ry...cradle, and the plastic matter undergoes changes so steady and purpose-like in their succession, that one can only compare them to those operated by a...
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Outlook and Independent, Volume 55

1897 - 1166 pages
...fluid, holding granules in suspension. Hut strange possibilities lie dormant in that semi-fluid globule. Let a moderate supply of warmth reach its watery cradle,...can only compare them to those operated by a skilled modeler upon a formless lump of clay. As with an invisible trowel, the mass is divided and subdivided...
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Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 448 pages
...fluid, holding granules in suspension. But strange possibilities lie dormant in that semi-fluid globule. Let a moderate supply of warmth reach its watery cradle,...in their succession, that one can only compare them to^those operated by a skilled modeller upon a formless lump of clay. As with an invisible trowel,...
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The New Englander, Volume 32

1873 - 808 pages
...stage, one is forcibly reminded of the modeler in clay." Again he speab of the changes going on, as "so steady and purpose-like in their succession, that...can only compare them to those operated by a skilled modeler upon a lump of clay." After noting the marks of apparent design at each successive step of...
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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
...stage, one is forcibly reminded of the modeler in clay.'' Again he speaks of the changes going on, as "so steady and purpose-like in their succession, that...can only compare them to those operated by a skilled modeler upon a lump of clay." After noting the marks of apparent design at each successive step of...
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An Examination of Herbert Spencer's Biological Hypothesis

Robert Watts - 1875 - 84 pages
...fluid, holding granules in suspension. But strange possibilities lie dormant in that semi-fluid globule. Let a moderate supply of warmth reach its watery cradle,...rapid, and yet so steady and purpose-like in their suecession, that one can only compare them to those operated by a skilled modeller upon a formless...
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 19

Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1885 - 524 pages
...pp. 91-125. 'Strange possibilities,' says Professor Huxley, 'lie dormant in that semi-fluid globule. Let a moderate supply of warmth reach its watery cradle,...compare them to those operated by a skilled modeller in a formless lump of clay. As with an invisible trowel the mass is divided into smaller and smaller...
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Philistinism: Plain Words Concerning Certain Forms of Modern Skepticism

Richard Heber Newton - 1886 - 360 pages
...avoid Mr. Huxley's simile, when watching the changes taking place in a speck of protoplasm : — " the plastic matter undergoes changes, so rapid and...and purpose-like in their succession, that one can compare them only to those operated by a skilful modeller upon a formless lump of clay. As with an...
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