Identifier: hillsalbumofbiog00hill (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hill, Thomas E. (Thomas Edie), 1832-1915
Subjects: Biography Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago : Hill Standard Book Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Plate F.-FIFTH EPOCn.~(^>n(.T,Hu-!, rrr,:.i. Highly matured condition of the earth; fitted for the support and production of the highest grades ofintelligence among uniinaU up to man. What the Progressionists Believe. While a variety of opinions exist among the evolutionists, theirbelief is essentially this; That there exists in the infinitude of space unnumbered suns, eachthe center of a planetary system, which, through the law of gravita-tion, continually revolve around a great central sun. That the planetsabout the sun are born of the sun. That the planets dependent uponour sun have all come from It. That in the i)roce8s of birth the sunthrow-off a gaseous ring, which, having attained a certain degree of maturity, breaks and gathers in a nebulous mass, making a spot onthe sun. In time, this substance, thus thrown off, which is amolten mass of intense heat, like a rain-drop in space, assumesa spherical form, takes its orbit for revolving about the sun. graduallycools on the surfa

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