Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... reason why their science should be misrepresented or its advocacy traduced . What we propose , therefore , on the present occasion is , to direct attention to the nature of geological evidence ; to show that , when the observations of ...
... reason why their science should be misrepresented or its advocacy traduced . What we propose , therefore , on the present occasion is , to direct attention to the nature of geological evidence ; to show that , when the observations of ...
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... , as they do at the present mo- ment . This belief lies at the foundation of all our reason- ings . The whole argument of our science proceeds upon the conviction that this world of ours is governed , THE NATURE OF GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE . 33.
... , as they do at the present mo- ment . This belief lies at the foundation of all our reason- ings . The whole argument of our science proceeds upon the conviction that this world of ours is governed , THE NATURE OF GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE . 33.
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... reason back with certainty to their producing causes . Within the last half- century , for example , philosophers have studied with minuteness the action of ice on land as well as its results on water . They have seen how the glacier ...
... reason back with certainty to their producing causes . Within the last half- century , for example , philosophers have studied with minuteness the action of ice on land as well as its results on water . They have seen how the glacier ...
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... , abundance of shells now living in polar seas ; and as we have no reason to suppose that the relations of life to external conditions were ever otherwise than at present , we are entitled to infer 40 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
... , abundance of shells now living in polar seas ; and as we have no reason to suppose that the relations of life to external conditions were ever otherwise than at present , we are entitled to infer 40 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
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... reason , such are the conclusions at which honest and unbiassed reasoning must arrive . Again , remains of reindeer and musk - ox occur in the superficial accumulations of France and Belgium , and re- mains of mammoth and tichorrhine ...
... reason , such are the conclusions at which honest and unbiassed reasoning must arrive . Again , remains of reindeer and musk - ox occur in the superficial accumulations of France and Belgium , and re- mains of mammoth and tichorrhine ...
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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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