Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... by its own peculiar rocks and their relations , and believing in the fixed and enduring nature of these forces , we seek to discover the changes it us . has undergone in time past by examining the GEOLOGY - ITS AIM AND OBJECTS . 17.
... by its own peculiar rocks and their relations , and believing in the fixed and enduring nature of these forces , we seek to discover the changes it us . has undergone in time past by examining the GEOLOGY - ITS AIM AND OBJECTS . 17.
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... belief , and giv- ing a more catholic impulse to human aims and to human aspirations . And if all this , or even less than this , can be ascribed to geology during its brief cultivation of little more than half a century , what , we may ...
... belief , and giv- ing a more catholic impulse to human aims and to human aspirations . And if all this , or even less than this , can be ascribed to geology during its brief cultivation of little more than half a century , what , we may ...
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... beliefs without establish- ing more rational in their stead , and its deductions were illogical and uncertain . That views which run counter to long - cherished and popular opinions should be received with caution and hesitancy is only ...
... beliefs without establish- ing more rational in their stead , and its deductions were illogical and uncertain . That views which run counter to long - cherished and popular opinions should be received with caution and hesitancy is only ...
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... beliefs , demand the most critical scrutiny . When a science tells , in opposition to what has been taught for ages , that ... belief lies at the foundation of all our reason- ings . The whole argument of our science proceeds upon the ...
... beliefs , demand the most critical scrutiny . When a science tells , in opposition to what has been taught for ages , that ... belief lies at the foundation of all our reason- ings . The whole argument of our science proceeds upon the ...
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... belief as the facts connected with the everyday affairs of life , and far more reliable than most of the testimony taken under oath , which is either falsified by the bias of the witness , or ob- scured , if not indeed perverted , by ...
... belief as the facts connected with the everyday affairs of life , and far more reliable than most of the testimony taken under oath , which is either falsified by the bias of the witness , or ob- scured , if not indeed perverted , by ...
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Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young Geologists David Page (F.G.S.) Visualização integral - 1869 |
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Página 135 - 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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