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The Time Machine

By: H. G. Wells

...Space. Here is a popular scientific diagram, a weather record. This line I trace with my finger shows the movement of the barometer. Yesterday it was ... ...ng it rose again, and so gently upward to here. Surely the mercury did not trace this line in any of the dimensions of Space generally recognized? But... ...e in any of the dimensions of Space generally recognized? But certainly it traced such a line, and that line, therefore, we must conclude was along th... ...oonlit world. ‘When I reached the lawn my worst fears were realized. Not a trace of the thing was to be seen. I felt faint and cold when I faced the e... ...parently, was the Palaeontological Sec- tion, and a very splendid array of fossils it must have been, though the inevitable process of decay that had ... ...reme slowness at work again upon all its treasures. Here and there I found traces of the little people in the shape of rare fossils broken to pieces o... ...s. Here and there I found traces of the little people in the shape of rare fossils broken to pieces or threaded in strings upon reeds. And the cases h...

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First and Last Things : A Confession of Faith and a Rule of Life

By: H. G. Wells

...nal loss of objective truth, and you get deflections that are difficult to trace at each phase in the process. Every species waggles about in its defi... ...egative term is in plain fact just nothing; “Not- A” is the absence of any trace of the quality that constitutes A, it is the rest of everything for e... ...igesting and critical analysis of that. For documents and monuments he had fossils and ana- 25 H. G . Wells tomical structures and germinating eggs t... ... But indeed it is impossible to isolate complete communities of men, or to trace any but rude general resemblances between group and group. These alle... ..., can be Pure and Chaste. Life is impurity, fact is impure. Everything has traces of alien matter; our very health is dependent on parasitic bacteria;...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...olling off—serenest azure is at hand.” Nor was the pulpit itself without a trace of the same sea- taste that had achieved the ladder and the picture. ... ...t hide the soul. Through all his unearthly tattooings, I thought I saw the traces of a simple honest heart; and in his large, deep eyes, fiery black a... ...ines and shadings which there met his eye; and with slow but steady pencil trace additional courses over spaces that before were blank. At intervals, ... ...ton of a stranded walrus. All down her sides, this spectral appearance was traced with long channels of red- dened rust, while all her spars and her r... ...onicled them. Nor when expandingly lifted by your subject, can you fail to trace out great whales in the starry heavens, and boats in pursuit of them;... ...he reader, that while in the earlier geological strata there are found the fossils of monsters now almost completely extinct; the subsequent relics di... ...akin to them in general respects, to justify their taking rank as Cetacean fossils. Detached broken fossils of pre-adamite whales, fragments of their ...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...ling off — serenest azure is at hand.” Nor was the pulpit itself without a trace of the same sea taste that had achieved the ladder and the picture. I... ...t hide the soul. Through all his unearthly tattooings, I thought I saw the traces of a simple honest heart; and in his large, deep eyes, fiery black an... ...ines and shadings which there met his eye; and with slow but steady pencil trace additional courses over spaces that before were blank. At intervals, ... ...ton of a stranded walrus. All down her sides, this spectral appearance was traced with long channels of reddened rust, while all her spars and her rig... ...ronicled them. Nor when expandingly lifted by your subject,can you fail to trace out great whales in the starry heavens, and boats in pursuit of them;... ...he reader, that while in the earlier geological strata there are found the fossils of monsters now almost completely extinct; the subsequent relics di... ...in to them in general respects, to jus tify their taking rank as Cetacean fossils. Detached broken fossils of pre adamite whales, fragments of their ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...opposite direction. The Causal Dynamics responsible for the explosion can be traced back to before the Big Bang because the Condition of Causality ... ...ess of the Universe is Actually Infinite, just because we can never perceive, trace or understand all of its infinite Causal complexity doesn’t mean... ...niverse is only due to our mistaken, finite misperception of it. If we could trace and understand all of the Causal processes in their entirety we ... ...entically. In the beginning; our Earth was a chemical laboratory in which trace amounts of dissolved elements and minerals; performed a near-inf... ...entically. In the beginning; our Earth was a chemical laboratory in which trace amounts of dissolved elements and minerals; performed a near-inf... ...ional fear of death; into a sick, cold, unemotional morgue of preserving dead fossils, dead tissues, dead organs, dead species… Trying to find out ... ...rved corpses… old, dead artifacts, ships, buildings, tools, bones, skeletons, fossils, rocks… even old, dead air, earth, water, seeds, plants. But ... ...gic evidence, all the climate changes, the tectonic activity, and what little fossils survived… and which areas that are in, and which areas there a... ...e fossils survived… and which areas that are in, and which areas there are NO fossils or geologic evidence going back 27 million years…. The actual...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...have blessed each transgression of those Jews, Christians and Moslems who trace their religions to him?‖ ---―Gentlemen you can see the pro... ...hrough his revelations to them. All three of the major theistic religions trace their beliefs to Abraham who lived about 1800 years before the Chris... ...gical argument of Anselm all that convincing either. This argument can be traced at least as far back as Plato. Basically it is that for everything t... ... or some other sect of whichever religion is God‘s favorite. But they all trace back through Abraham. Where did God choose the favored path—and how ... ...alk about— trilobites, dinosaurs, skeletons of pre-homo sapiens, and other fossils. It‘s difficult for many to understand that all plants and animals... ...is the best conclusion for explaining the development of flora, fauna and fossils over the history 191 of life on this planet. So in the scienti... ...ulls and skeletons with the physical anthropologists, we can trace the genetic trail from the earliest times by having the neuro- ...

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Doctor Grimshawe's Secret a Romance

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...t your friend Doctor Grim is ready to affirm and make oath of,—that he can trace your kindred and race through that sordid experi ence, and back, bac... ...ets of London; but in vain. Then they sent messen gers to see whether any traces of one stepping in blood could be found on the forest leaves of Amer... ...een an American, he might have had the vast antipathy to rank, without the trace of awe that made it so much more malignant: it required a low born En... ...ssion, which, unless you looked at him with the very purpose of seeing the traces of time in his face, would make you suppose him much younger. “And h... ...l, being cleared of snow, proved to be a slab of freestone, with some rude traces of carving in bas relief around the border, now much effaced, and an... ...g his former existence, not as dealing with things yet malleable, but with fossils, things that had had their life, and now were unchangeable, and rev...

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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

...kled under the rays of the moon, which darted between two clouds, then all trace of light was lost in the darkness. In looking at Conseil, I could see... ...seil, “and in your museum, sir; and I should have already classed all your fossils, sir. And the Babiroussa would have been installed in its cage in t... ...have been pro- duced by an agent of great shining power. The luminous part traced on the sea an immense oval, much elongated, the centre of which cond... ...hick mat, which deadened the noise of the feet. The bare walls revealed no trace of window or door. Conseil, going round the reverse way, met me, and ... ...ogether our Nautilus. Then, when the work was finished, fire destroyed all trace of our proceedings on this island, that I could have jumped over if I... ...in Dillon, a shrewd old Pacific sailor, was the first to find unmistakable traces of the wrecks. On the 15th of May, 1824, his vessel, the St. Patrick...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...continued walking. Clouds were traveling fast. When the rain started I re- traced my steps. I heard voices and men at their oars. Waves were piling ag... ...Pass?” “I have camped there. I have seen some of it when I was collecting fossils. But for an army to get through, it seems impossible. You had cann... ...elier. Among my drawings, sketches, cartoons, models, among my plants and fossils, I should have gone on and on painting. Who, better than I, through... ...his arm, this wrist, these fingers as I write. I would like to be able to trace these impulses: the thought, as it takes place in the brain, the tho... ... have help when it comes to the vocabulary relating to hydraulics, gears, fossils, and such. March 18, 1518 My journal is in danger. Time is lea... ...r playing the fool. “Come...let’s go into the studio, where you keep your fossils from the Alps. I VOICES FROM THE PAST 290 want you to expla... ... the château!): we talked about the Alps. I mentioned my climbs and the fossils I found...the caves...with shells on the floor... I showed F my me... ... no one had seen her. I asked for her many times. There was absolutely no trace of her. She simply disappeared. Some criminal? Some man? Death? I ne...

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Dead Souls

By: D. J. Hogarth

...while doing so, glanced covertly at Chichikov to see whether there was any trace of a smile to be detected on his lips— whether, in short, he was joki... ...hing the house, Nozdrev conducted them to his study, which contained not a trace of the things usually to be found in such apartments— such things as ... ...tle of rum. Clearly no broom had yet touched the place, for there remained traces of the previous night’s dinner and supper in the shape of crumbs thr... ...s daylight—I might have vanished like a bubble on a pool, and left neither trace nor poster- ity nor property nor an honourable name for my future off... ...ttle, and then came together again—this time getting a leg or two over the traces. In fact, so pleased did the skewbald seem with his new friends that... ...ho was engaged in roaming the country in search of botanical specimens and fossils; wherefore he hastened to express both his readiness to further the...

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On the Origin of Species

By: Charles Darwin

...ds as now existing in Britain, India, and Persia, we can, I think, clearly trace the stages through which they have insensibly passed, and come to dif... ...al it is in a flock of white sheep to destroy every lamb with the faintest trace of black. In plants the down on the fruit and the colour of the flesh... ...ow known in the world, as the Ornithorhynchus and Lepidosiren, which, like fossils, connect to a certain extent orders now widely separated in the nat... ...ed in the natural scale. These anomalous forms may almost be called living fossils; they have endured to the present day, from having inhabited a conf... ...en with a double shoulder-stripe. The hemionus has no shoulder-stripe; but traces of it, as stated by Mr. Blyth and others, occasionally appear: and I... ...: a faint shoulder-stripe may sometimes be seen in duns, and I have seen a trace in a bay horse. My son made a careful examination and sketch for me o... ... top of the shoulder to the tail, including the hind- legs, we perhaps see traces of an apparatus origi- nally constructed for gliding through the air... ... formed. I am convinced that all our ancient formations, which are rich in fossils, have thus been formed dur- ing subsidence. Since publishing my vie... ...se oscillations have affected wide spaces. Consequently formations rich in fossils and sufficiently thick and extensive to resist subsequent degradati...

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The Long Vacation

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... THE LONG VACATION BY CHARLOTTE M. YONGE How the children leave us, and no traces Linger of that smiling angel-band, Gone, for ever gone, and in thei... ...tt have said, or even Felix?” “It is his doing,” said Lance, “the lines he traced out.” “My father says it is the writing with a conscience,” said Ger... ...he introduction; and the next sound that was heard was, “Have you any good fossils about you?” in a tone as if he doubted whether so small a boy knew ... ... collection might be arranged as a sample of the specimens of minerals and fossils of Rockquay at the long-talked-of sale of work. 48 The Long Vacati... ....” 55 Yo n g e “The science of larks?” “Oh dear, no. Fergus is wild after fossils, and has made Adrian the same, and he really knows an immense deal.... ...drian the same, and he really knows an immense deal. They are always after fossils and stones when they are out of school.” “The precious darling!” “M... ...y turned out to be somebody else’s son, and married the daughter.” “If you trace ‘The Tempest’ through that version you are clever,” said Gerald. “I t... ...ald. A circus is not such a microscopical object but that it can be easily traced. A policeman has prom- ised to find out where, and meanwhile we must... ...Weren’t you run down?” seeing even as she spoke that not a drop of wet was traceable. “Me! What! did you think I was going to peril my life in a ‘long...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

... made in the productive powers of labour; and it would be to no purpose to trace further what might have been its effects upon the recompence or wages... ...rnamentally, in building, dress, equipage, or household furniture; for the fossils and minerals contained in the bowels of the earth, the precious met... ...rt and industry advance, the materials of clothing and lodging, the useful fossils and materials of the earth, the precious metals and the precious st... ...ther sorts of rude produce, cattle, poultry, game of all kinds, the useful fossils and minerals of the earth, etc. naturally grow dearer, as the socie... ...ly per- ish in the very instant of their performance, and seldom leave any trace of value behind them, for which an equal quantity of service could af... ...t might not be worth all that it cost, would always be worth something. No trace or vestige of the expense of the latter would remain, and the effects...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...re stored by the gracious hand of death! When Jean’s mother lay dead, all trace of care, and trouble, and suffering, and the corroding years had vani... ...ld Silurian times, and lay eggs and catch fish and climb trees and live on fossils; for it was of a mixed breed, which was the fashion then. It was ve... ...e oldest family of unchal lenged descent in Christendom lives in Rome and traces its line back seventeen hundred years, but no member of it has been ... ...e presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any traceable or un traceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it is ... ... ible one who sneaks in and does his awful work in the dark and leaves no trace—that is another matter. That is a thing to make the bravest tremble a... ...d get along well enough from four till six on clear days, for I could keep trace of the time by the chang What Is Man and Other Essays 132 ing shape... ...es: There are a good many donkeys in theological gardens. Some of the best fossils are found in theological gardens. Under the head of “Grammar” the l...

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Man and Superman a Comedy and a Philosophy

By: George Bernard Shaw

...rvant who knows more than his masters. The conception of Mendoza Limited I trace back to a certain West Indian colonial secre- tary, who, at a period ... ...later; and so we find the world full of a magnifi- cent debris of artistic fossils, with the matter-of-fact cred- ibility gone clean out of them, but ... ...end that there are any modern ideas in it, whereas your academic copier of fossils offers them to you as the latest outpouring of the human spirit, an... ...mistakes by being too clever than by being too good [she sits down, with a trace of contempt for the whole male sex in the elegant carriage of her sho... ...league steps and hidden the day with cloud vast wings. Where are they now? Fossils in museums, and so few and imperfect at that, that a knuckle bone o...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

... for the burdock; the huddled roofs and ricks of the homestead with- out a traceable way of approach; the gray gate and fences against the depths of t... ... for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love. Something of that sort happened to Lydgate... ...of a knowledge which breathes a growing soul into all historic shapes, and traces out the suppressed transitions which unite all contrasts, Rome may s... ... some Ariel were touching them with a new charm, and banishing forever the traces of moodiness. The reflection of that smile could not but have a litt... ...rew like a small fresh vegetation with its population of in- sects on huge fossils. Will would be happy to conduct them— not to anything wearisome, on... ...ntention: there was to be a new Parergon, a small monograph on some lately traced indica- tions concerning the Egyptian mysteries whereby certain as- ...

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