Chapters from the Physical History of the Earth: An Introduction to Geology and PalaeontologyC. K. Paul & Company, 1880 - 281 pagini |
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... observation , but which have never become objects of inquiry or speculation to them . Before man has arrived at an age when he is capable of the simplest reasoning process , he has insensibly learned to accept , as a necessary part of ...
... observation , but which have never become objects of inquiry or speculation to them . Before man has arrived at an age when he is capable of the simplest reasoning process , he has insensibly learned to accept , as a necessary part of ...
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... observations , however vague they might be , had a practical utility . They became measures of time and direction , sufficiently accurate for the purposes of primi- tive man ; but , as civilization advanced among a people , the ...
... observations , however vague they might be , had a practical utility . They became measures of time and direction , sufficiently accurate for the purposes of primi- tive man ; but , as civilization advanced among a people , the ...
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... observation and experiment rapidly cleared away the rubbish col- lected by astrologers and alchemists ... observations applied to local and superficial conditions , leaving untouched the great mechanical agencies which have operated ...
... observation and experiment rapidly cleared away the rubbish col- lected by astrologers and alchemists ... observations applied to local and superficial conditions , leaving untouched the great mechanical agencies which have operated ...
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... observe it is possible to form a very clear opinion of the forces which have operated in former times . Destructive as these fires are even now whenever they break forth ; while the un- stratified rocks alone existed the surface of the ...
... observe it is possible to form a very clear opinion of the forces which have operated in former times . Destructive as these fires are even now whenever they break forth ; while the un- stratified rocks alone existed the surface of the ...
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... observing a great number of these natural and artificial sections , we obtain a very fair general idea of their relative positions . If we call the formations , from the lowest upwards , A , B , C , D , etc. , we may find any one of ...
... observing a great number of these natural and artificial sections , we obtain a very fair general idea of their relative positions . If we call the formations , from the lowest upwards , A , B , C , D , etc. , we may find any one of ...
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Pagina 155 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the creator into a few forms or into one; and that, while this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
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Pagina 133 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
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