 | Books and bookselling - 1788 - 588 pages
...Vegetation. We have now confldercd the globe of this earth as a machine, conitructed upon chymical as well as mechanical principles, by which its different...and in quantity, to a certain end ; an end attained wirh certainty or fuccefs ; and an end from which we may perceive wifdom, in contemplating the nr-ans... | |
 | Geological Society of London - Electronic journals - 1869 - 674 pages
...of life and intelligence. " We have now considered the globe of this earth as a machine, constructed upon chemical as well as mechanical principles, by...a certain end ; an end attained with certainty or success ; and an end from which we may perceive wisdom, in contemplating the means employed. " But... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1870 - 448 pages
...of life and intelligence. "We have now considered the glol>e of this earth as a machine, constructed upon chemical as well as mechanical principles, by...a certain end ; an end attained with certainty or success ; and an end from which we may perceive wisdom, in contemplating the means employed. " But... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1880 - 408 pages
...of life and intelligence. " We have now considered the globe of this earth as a machine, constructed upon chemical as well as mechanical principles, by...in quality, and in quantity, to a certain end ; an cud attained with certainty or success ; and an end from which we may perceive wisdom, in contemplating... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Biology - 1894 - 428 pages
...of life and intelligence. " We have now considered the globe of this earth as a machine, constructed upon chemical as well as mechanical principles, by...a certain end ; an end attained with certainty or success ; and an end from which we may perceive wisdom, in contemplating the means employed. " But... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Biologists - 1901 - 724 pages
...of life and intelligence. " We have now considered the globe of this earth as a machine constructed upon chemical as well as mechanical principles, by...a certain end ; an end attained with certainty or success ; and an end from which we may perceive wisdom, in contemplating the means employed. '. ' The... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams - Science - 1904 - 380 pages
...intention might appear. " We have now considered the globe of this earth as a machine, constructed upon chemical as well as mechanical principles, by...different parts are all adapted, in form, in quality, and quantity, to a certain end — an end attained with certainty of success, and an end from which we... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1910 - 408 pages
...earth as a machine, constructed upon chemical as well as mechanical principles, by which its-different parts are all adapted, in form, in quality, and in...a certain end ; an end attained with certainty or success ; and an ' end from which we may perceive wisdom, in contemplating the means employed. " But... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Biology - 1913 - 416 pages
...the globe of this earth as a machine, constructed upon chemical as well as mechanical principles, hy which its different parts are all adapted, in form,...quantity, to a certain end; an end attained with certainty of success; and an end from which we may perceive wisdom, in contemplating the means employed. " But... | |
 | Stephen Baxter - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 264 pages
...Maclaurin's, he would write four decades later of 'the globe of this Earth as a machine, constructed upon chemical as well as mechanical principles, by...to a certain end; an end attained with certainty or success; and an end from which we may perceive wisdom, in contemplating the means employed.' A seed... | |
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We have now considered the globe of this earth as a machine, constructed upon chemical as well as mechanical principles, by which its different parts are all adapted, in form, in quality, and in quantity, to a certain end ; an end attained with certainty... 
