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    Time and Life
    Time and Life
    Time and Life
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    Time and Life

    By Thomas Henry Huxley

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      TIME AND LIFE*

      MR. DARWIN’S

      ORIGIN OF SPECIES

      BY

      THOMAS H. HUXLEY

      EVERYONE knows that that superficial film of the earth’s substance, hardly ten miles thick, which is accessible to human investigation, is composed for the most part of beds or strata of stone, the consolidated muds and sands of former seas and lakes, which have been deposited one upon the other, and hence are the older the deeper they lie. These multitudinous strata present such resemblances and differences among themselves that they are capable of classification into groups or formations, and these formations again are

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