The Testimony of the Rocks, Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and RevealedT. Constable, 1857 - 500 pages |
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... ages ere man was ushered into being , not a few of his humbler contemporaries of the fields and woods enjoyed life in their present haunts , and that for thousands of years anterior to even their appearance , many of the existing ...
... ages ere man was ushered into being , not a few of his humbler contemporaries of the fields and woods enjoyed life in their present haunts , and that for thousands of years anterior to even their appearance , many of the existing ...
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... ages , we pursue it downwards , is exactly that of the " Animal Kingdom " of Cuvier read backwards . Let us then ... age to show the bearing of this wonderful fact on the progress of man towards the just and the solid , and on the being ...
... ages , we pursue it downwards , is exactly that of the " Animal Kingdom " of Cuvier read backwards . Let us then ... age to show the bearing of this wonderful fact on the progress of man towards the just and the solid , and on the being ...
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... ages she as certainly produced trees , or plants of tree - like proportions and bulk , as she did minute shrubs and herbs . In not a few of the existing orders and families , such as the Rosacea , the Legu- minosæ , the Myrtaceæ , and ...
... ages she as certainly produced trees , or plants of tree - like proportions and bulk , as she did minute shrubs and herbs . In not a few of the existing orders and families , such as the Rosacea , the Legu- minosæ , the Myrtaceæ , and ...
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... ages with the elements , its mass of soft cellular tissue is strengthened all round by in- ternal buttresses of dense vascular fibre , tough and elastic as the strongest woods . Now , not a few of the more anomalous forms of the Coal ...
... ages with the elements , its mass of soft cellular tissue is strengthened all round by in- ternal buttresses of dense vascular fibre , tough and elastic as the strongest woods . Now , not a few of the more anomalous forms of the Coal ...
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... age , I told him , ere yet the optical lapidary had prepared them for examination , that if they exhibited the coniferous ... ages of the earth's history , to be again introduced in greatly more than the earlier proportions during the ...
... age , I told him , ere yet the optical lapidary had prepared them for examination , that if they exhibited the coniferous ... ages of the earth's history , to be again introduced in greatly more than the earlier proportions during the ...
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