Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... student who is deep - read in the records of humanity and ignorant of those of nature . " - Professor Huxley's Lecture On a Bit of Chalk , ' British As- sociation , 1868 . CHIPS AND CHAPTERS A BOOK FOR AMATEUR AND YOUNG GEOLOGISTS.
... student who is deep - read in the records of humanity and ignorant of those of nature . " - Professor Huxley's Lecture On a Bit of Chalk , ' British As- sociation , 1868 . CHIPS AND CHAPTERS A BOOK FOR AMATEUR AND YOUNG GEOLOGISTS.
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... human history through its ancient , medi- eval , and modern developments . But while engaged in this task it will be found that ancient changes and ancient rock - formations are far less evident and of much more difficult interpretation ...
... human history through its ancient , medi- eval , and modern developments . But while engaged in this task it will be found that ancient changes and ancient rock - formations are far less evident and of much more difficult interpretation ...
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... humanity . " Perhaps neither extreme is absolutely cor- rect , and , as in most matters of human concern , truth may be found between . Science , it is true , may be cultivated solely for its own sake , and to a certain class of minds ...
... humanity . " Perhaps neither extreme is absolutely cor- rect , and , as in most matters of human concern , truth may be found between . Science , it is true , may be cultivated solely for its own sake , and to a certain class of minds ...
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... humanity , and in behalf of a class of men who , even under the closest care and the highest skill , are ever exposed to more than the ordinary perils of industrial occupation . Considering that the law now for- bids the employment of ...
... humanity , and in behalf of a class of men who , even under the closest care and the highest skill , are ever exposed to more than the ordinary perils of industrial occupation . Considering that the law now for- bids the employment of ...
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... 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 presume to ask , will be the influence of its ...
... 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 presume to ask , will be the influence of its ...
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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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