... phenomena of Nature, each to its own deity. These deities were invested with more than human power ; but they were also supposed capable of human passions, and subject to human capriciousness. As the uniformities of Nature came to be more distinctly... Report of the Annual Meeting - Page lxxxivby British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1873Full view - About this book
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