Vestiges of the Natural History of CreationWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 280 pagina's |
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Pagina v
... arrangements and formation Constituent Materials of the Earth , and of the other Bodies of Space - - The Earth Formed - Era of the Primary Rocks · Commencement of Organic Life - Sea Plants , Corals , etc. Era of the Old Red Sandstone ...
... arrangements and formation Constituent Materials of the Earth , and of the other Bodies of Space - - The Earth Formed - Era of the Primary Rocks · Commencement of Organic Life - Sea Plants , Corals , etc. Era of the Old Red Sandstone ...
Pagina xxiv
... arrangements for the species perfect ; the individual is left , as it were , to take his chance amidst the mêlée of the various laws affecting him . If he be found inferiorly endowed , or ill be- falls him , there was at least no ...
... arrangements for the species perfect ; the individual is left , as it were , to take his chance amidst the mêlée of the various laws affecting him . If he be found inferiorly endowed , or ill be- falls him , there was at least no ...
Pagina xxviii
... , dress thine eyes with eye - salve ; ask of him , Or ask of whomsoever he has taught ; And learn , though late , the genuine cause of all . THE BODIES OF SPACE , THEIR ARRANGEMENTS AND FORMATION . xxviii INTRODUCTION .
... , dress thine eyes with eye - salve ; ask of him , Or ask of whomsoever he has taught ; And learn , though late , the genuine cause of all . THE BODIES OF SPACE , THEIR ARRANGEMENTS AND FORMATION . xxviii INTRODUCTION .
Pagina 1
Robert Chambers George Barrell Cheever. THE BODIES OF SPACE , THEIR ARRANGEMENTS AND FORMATION . It is familiar knowledge that the earth which we inhabit is a globe of somewhat less than 8000 miles in diameter ... arrangements and formation.
Robert Chambers George Barrell Cheever. THE BODIES OF SPACE , THEIR ARRANGEMENTS AND FORMATION . It is familiar knowledge that the earth which we inhabit is a globe of somewhat less than 8000 miles in diameter ... arrangements and formation.
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... direction , than towards the north , in which line our eye has to traverse the vacant central space . Nor is this all . Sir William Herschel , so early as 1783 , detected a motion in our solar system THEIR ARRANGEMENTS AND FORMATION . 3.
... direction , than towards the north , in which line our eye has to traverse the vacant central space . Nor is this all . Sir William Herschel , so early as 1783 , detected a motion in our solar system THEIR ARRANGEMENTS AND FORMATION . 3.
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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...