. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. to contend within the attemptto demonstratethe truth of theposition thatthey havetaken. It couldeasily be shownthat by domes-tication andtrai
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. to contend within the attemptto demonstratethe truth of theposition thatthey havetaken. It couldeasily be shownthat by domes-tication andtraining, undera change of cir-cums tan ce s,one hundredand fifty varie-ties of pigeonscould be pro-duced from theone each andevery one, afterall was done,would be a pigeon,kinds of dogs, someothers, all camefrom one vari-ety of dog; butfacts demon-strated, also,that dogs werenever anythingbut dogs. Thusof every otherspecies of ani-mals. So lim-ited was theknowledge ofcreation ; sosmall had beenthe range of ob-servation ; sonarrow was the v.: H^. X> :!C?^ .mi ^
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