The Story of Evolution

The Story of Evolution

By Joseph McCabe
Michael Caine
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Length11h 48m

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Excerpt: "The beginning of the victorious career of modern science was very largely due to the making of two stimulating discoveries at the close of the Middle Ages. One was the discovery of the earth: the other the discovery of the universe. Men were confined, like molluscs in their shells, by a belief that they occupied the centre of a comparatively small disk—some ventured to say a globe—which was poised in a mysterious way in the middle of a small system of heavenly bodies. The general feeling was that these heavenly bodies were lamps hung on a not too remote ceiling for the purpose of lighting their ways. Then certain enterprising sailors—Vasco da Gama, Maghalaes, Columbus—brought home the news that the known world was only one side of an enormous globe, and that there were vast lands and great peoples thousands of miles across the ocean. The minds of men in Europe had hardly strained their shells sufficiently to embrace this larger earth when the second discovery was reported. The roof of the world, with its useful little system of heavenly bodies, began to crack and disclose a profound and mysterious universe surrounding them on every side. One cannot understand the solidity of the modern doctrine of the formation of the heavens and the earth until one appreciates this revolution."

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GenreHistory, Biography and Memoir
Length11 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 30, 2021
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1PREFACE
12CHAPTER XI.
2CHAPTER I.
13CHAPTER XII.
3CHAPTER II.
14CHAPTER XIII.
4CHAPTER III.
15CHAPTER XIV.
5CHAPTER IV.
16CHAPTER XV.
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6CHAPTER V.
17CHAPTER XVI.
7CHAPTER VI.
18CHAPTER XVII.
8CHAPTER VII.
19CHAPTER XVIII.
9CHAPTER VIII.
20CHAPTER XIX.
10CHAPTER IX.
21CHAPTER XX.
11CHAPTER X.
22CHAPTER XXI.

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