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... means for bettering your condition ; and that you might perhaps hit upon such and such useful inventions ; and hence you may be led to think it natural that savages should do so , and that some tribes of them may have advanced ...
... means for bettering your condition ; and that you might perhaps hit upon such and such useful inventions ; and hence you may be led to think it natural that savages should do so , and that some tribes of them may have advanced ...
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... means of spades and other tools , which Man can be taught to make and use , though brutes cannot . Again , birds and bees have an in- stinct for building such nests and habitations as answer their purpose as well as the most commodious ...
... means of spades and other tools , which Man can be taught to make and use , though brutes cannot . Again , birds and bees have an in- stinct for building such nests and habitations as answer their purpose as well as the most commodious ...
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... mean , it seems , that it is not of such a character as would never be reckoned miraculous by any one ; and that therefore it is to be at once pronounced incredible , by whatever proofs attested ; which is just saying , in a slightly ...
... mean , it seems , that it is not of such a character as would never be reckoned miraculous by any one ; and that therefore it is to be at once pronounced incredible , by whatever proofs attested ; which is just saying , in a slightly ...
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... mean by Christianity , they cannot fairly be accused of deceit . I am told that the school or sect to which most of these Writers belong is called ' Positivity , ' and that its doctrine is the worship of Human Nature . If the reader has ...
... mean by Christianity , they cannot fairly be accused of deceit . I am told that the school or sect to which most of these Writers belong is called ' Positivity , ' and that its doctrine is the worship of Human Nature . If the reader has ...
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... mean this statement for a kind of Parable , or poetical Figure , designed to convey some moral lesson . But literally , it is a manifest physical impossibility . According to all experience and all analogy , birds are formed for flying ...
... mean this statement for a kind of Parable , or poetical Figure , designed to convey some moral lesson . But literally , it is a manifest physical impossibility . According to all experience and all analogy , birds are formed for flying ...
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