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Buffon , naturally enough , makes stature his index ; and assuming the average period of growth in height in man to be ... he takes six or seven periods , the multiples of this time , to express the natural duration of human life .
Buffon , naturally enough , makes stature his index ; and assuming the average period of growth in height in man to be ... he takes six or seven periods , the multiples of this time , to express the natural duration of human life .
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But in so doing we are called upon to submit them all to the great general law of averages ; and not to propound them , as M. Flourens does , as exponents of the natural capacity for life in man . We might just as reasonably assert that ...
But in so doing we are called upon to submit them all to the great general law of averages ; and not to propound them , as M. Flourens does , as exponents of the natural capacity for life in man . We might just as reasonably assert that ...
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The natural phenomena , indeed , upon which it is founded , being ever present and patent to observation , could not have escaped record ; and this record was becoming continually more copious , through its connexion with other branches ...
The natural phenomena , indeed , upon which it is founded , being ever present and patent to observation , could not have escaped record ; and this record was becoming continually more copious , through its connexion with other branches ...
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1 History of the Reign of Philip the Second King | 1 |
sur le Globe Par P Flourens Membre de lAca | 46 |
England from the earliest period to the year 1742 | 78 |
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