Vestiges of the Natural History of CreationWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 280 pagina's |
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Pagina 1
... amongst astronomers , that the stars , though they only appear to our eyes as brilliant points , are all to be considered as suns , representing so many solar systems , each bearing a general resemblance to our own . The stars have a ...
... amongst astronomers , that the stars , though they only appear to our eyes as brilliant points , are all to be considered as suns , representing so many solar systems , each bearing a general resemblance to our own . The stars have a ...
Pagina 16
... amongst the elder born of Heaven , but one whose various phenomena , physical and moral , as yet lay undeveloped , while myriads of others were fully fashioned , and in complete arrangement . Thus , in the sublime chronology to which we ...
... amongst the elder born of Heaven , but one whose various phenomena , physical and moral , as yet lay undeveloped , while myriads of others were fully fashioned , and in complete arrangement . Thus , in the sublime chronology to which we ...
Pagina 23
... amongst all these children of the sun . Where , meanwhile , is the heat once diffused through the system over and above what remains in the planets ? May we not rationally presume it to have gone to constitute that luminous envelope of ...
... amongst all these children of the sun . Where , meanwhile , is the heat once diffused through the system over and above what remains in the planets ? May we not rationally presume it to have gone to constitute that luminous envelope of ...
Pagina 25
... amongst which coal takes a conspicuous place . The familiarly- known metals , as iron , tin , lead , silver , gold , are elements of comparatively small magnitude in that exterior part of the earth's body which we are able to ...
... amongst which coal takes a conspicuous place . The familiarly- known metals , as iron , tin , lead , silver , gold , are elements of comparatively small magnitude in that exterior part of the earth's body which we are able to ...
Pagina 26
... amongst sub- stances for each other's company . One will remain com- bined in solution with another , till a third is added , when it will abandon the former and attach itself to the latter . A fourth being added , the third will ...
... amongst sub- stances for each other's company . One will remain com- bined in solution with another , till a third is added , when it will abandon the former and attach itself to the latter . A fourth being added , the third will ...
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advance American amongst animal kingdom animalcules appear arrangement become beds birds body brain called carboniferous causes character circumstances civilisation coal connexion constitution crag and tail creatures cretaceous crinoidea crustacea diluvium doctrine early earth eocene evil existence external fact faculties favorable feet fishes formation fossils genera geological globe heat human hypothesis ichthyosaurus idea infusoria instances kind land animals language less limestone living mammalia marsupial mass matter ment mental mind mollusks moral nature observed Old Red Sandstone oolite operation organic creation original pachydermata particular peculiar perfect perhaps phenomena plants present primary rocks produced quadrumana race red sandstone regard remarkable reptiles respect scale seen Silurian solar system space species stars strata structure substance supposed surface terrestrial animal things tion traces tribes truth various vast VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL vertebral column vertebrata whole word
Populaire passages
Pagina ix - These wait all upon thee ; That thou mayest give them their meat in due season. That thou givest them they gather : Thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
Pagina xxvii - ... and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation ; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us.
Pagina vii - For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished; but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Pagina x - And said unto the woman. Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
Pagina 235 - The difference beiween mind in the lower animals and in man is a difference in degree only; it is not a specific difference. All who have studied animals by actual observation, and even those who have given a candid attention to the subject in books, must attain more or less clear convictions of this truth, notwithstanding all the obscurity which prejudice may have engendered.
Pagina 250 - But when order is generally triumphant, and reason allowed sway, men begin to see the true case of criminals—namely, that while one large department are victims of erroneous social conditions, another are brought to error by tendencies which they are only unfortunate in having inherited from nature. Criminal jurisprudence then addresses itself less to the direct punishment than to the reformation and care-taking of those liable to its attention.
Pagina 8 - It has been found that, with respect to any two planets, the squares of the times of revolutions are to each other in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances,— a most surprising result, for the discovery of which the world was indebted to the illustrious Kepler. Sir John Herschel truly observes...