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Page 61 - Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried, descended into hell, on the third day rose again from the dead, ascended into heaven, sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty, whence he
Page 61 - I believe in Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord, who was conceived of the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried, descended into hell, on the third day rose
Page 64 - If we take a comprehensive glance at all that modern anthropology, psychology, and cosmology teach with regard to athanatism, we are forced to this definite conclusion. The belief in the immortality of the human soul is in hopeless contradiction with the most solid empirical truths of modern science.
Page 443 - If the molecules possess something that is related, however distantly, to sensation, it must be comfortable to be able to follow their attractions and repulsions; uncomfortable when they are forced to do otherwise. Thus we get
Page 443 - The idea of chemical affinity consists in the fact that the various chemical elements perceive the qualitative differences in other elements, experience "pleasure" or "revulsion" at contact with them, and execute
Page 340 - than the possibility of the formation of cyanic compounds when the earth was entirely or partially in a state of incandescence or great heat. We see how extraordinarily all the facts of chemistry point to fire as the force that has produced
Page 67 - belief in a personal God, the immortality of the soul, and the freedom of the will. If
Page 98 - The inquiry into the nature of organic life which we instituted in the second chapter has shown us that it is, in the ultimate analysis, a chemical process. The " miracle of life " is in essence nothing but the metabolism of the living matter, or of the plasm.
Page x - I was stimulated by the constant sight of the blue Mediterranean, the countless inhabitants of which had, for fifty years, afforded such ample material for my biological studies; and my solitary walks in the wild gorges of the Ligurian Apennines, and the moving spectacle of its forest-crowned
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| Title | The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy Collection Léo Pariseau Collections spéciales Issue 23 of R.P.A. cheap reprints |
| Author | Ernst Haeckel |
| Translated by | Joseph McCabe |
| Edition | 2, abridged |
| Publisher | Harper & brothers, 1904 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Dec 1, 2005 |
| Length | 484 pages |
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