Vestiges of the Natural History of CreationWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 280 pagina's |
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Pagina v
... traces of Birds 20 ✓ 33 39✓ 47 59 + 388 56 64 Era of the Oolite - Commencement of Mammalia 76 Era of the Cretaceous formation 85 Era of the Tertiary formation - Mammalia abundant 92 Era of the Superficial formation — Commencement of ...
... traces of Birds 20 ✓ 33 39✓ 47 59 + 388 56 64 Era of the Oolite - Commencement of Mammalia 76 Era of the Cretaceous formation 85 Era of the Tertiary formation - Mammalia abundant 92 Era of the Superficial formation — Commencement of ...
Pagina xi
... traces of death , and the wrecks of matter and time ; an understanding that never looks upward nor inward , but always downward and outward . Faith in God and his word is the act of reason , the highest act of spiritual being , turned ...
... traces of death , and the wrecks of matter and time ; an understanding that never looks upward nor inward , but always downward and outward . Faith in God and his word is the act of reason , the highest act of spiritual being , turned ...
Pagina 23
... trace some of the steps and consequences of the process . Uranus would be formed at the time when the heat of our system's matter was at the greatest , Saturn at the next , and so on . Now this tallies perfectly with the exceeding ...
... trace some of the steps and consequences of the process . Uranus would be formed at the time when the heat of our system's matter was at the greatest , Saturn at the next , and so on . Now this tallies perfectly with the exceeding ...
Pagina 32
... traces of an operation of this heat upon the surface of the earth in very remote times ; an effect , however , which has long passed entirely away . The central heat has , for ages , reached a fixed point , at which it will probably ...
... traces of an operation of this heat upon the surface of the earth in very remote times ; an effect , however , which has long passed entirely away . The central heat has , for ages , reached a fixed point , at which it will probably ...
Pagina 40
... trace this history as well as existing materials will permit . Some difficulty exists with regard to the very first chapter of Fauna's story . It is as yet undecided at what part of the rock series we have the earliest traces of the ...
... trace this history as well as existing materials will permit . Some difficulty exists with regard to the very first chapter of Fauna's story . It is as yet undecided at what part of the rock series we have the earliest traces of the ...
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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...