 I look at the geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume, only here and there a short chapter...  The American Naturalist - Page 4671877Full view - About this book
 | 1860 - 600 lehte
...two or three countries^. Of ' this volume only here and there a short chapter has been pre' served : and of each page only here and there a few lines. Each 1 word of the slowly changing language in which the history ia ' supposed to be written being more... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1866 - 668 lehte
...believe that the geological record is in any degree perfect, will undoubtedly at once reject my theory. For my part, following out Lyell's ' metaphor, I look...only here and there a few lines. Each word of the slowlychanging language being more or less different in the successive chapters, may represent the... | |
 | Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - 1867 - 282 lehte
...organic life. One of our greatest living naturalists has well said — " For my part, I look at the geological record as a history of the world imperfectly...and of each page, only here and there a few lines." These words show us what work Geology has still to do ; to recover another chapter or page, or even... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 598 lehte
...imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect. Of this history we possess the last volume only, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume...and of each page only here and there a few lines. On this view the difficulties above discussed are greatly diminished, or even disappear (337). So then,... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 406 lehte
...imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect. Of this history we possess the last volume only, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume...and of each page only here and there a few lines. On this view the difficulties above discussed are greatly diminished, or even disappear (337). So then,... | |
 | 1868 - 280 lehte
...of organic life. One of our greatest living naturalists has well said—" For my part, I look at the geological record as a history of the world imperfectly...and of each page, only here and there a few lines." These words show us what work Geology has still to do ; to recover another chapter or page, or even... | |
 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1868 - 596 lehte
...Geological Record is a " History of the World imperfectly kept and written, in a changing dialect ; that of this history we possess the last volume alone,...and of each page only here and there a few lines." But what pretention should a mere science of facts have to compete with the imaginative theories of... | |
 | Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - 1868 - 284 lehte
...dialect ; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countiies. Of this volume, only here and there a short chapter...and of each page, only here and there a few lines." These words show us what work Geology has still to do ; to recover another chapter or page, or even... | |
 | H. Charlton Bastian - 1872 - 834 lehte
...covered over by seas. Mr. Darwin says1: — 'For my part, following out Lyell's metaphor, I look at the geological record as a history of the world imperfectly...and of each page only here and there a few lines.' Such as it is, however, the record seems to show very plainly that there has been nothing approaching... | |
 | Benjamin Thompson Lowne - 1873 - 216 lehte
...preserved only under very rare conditions ; so that, as Sir Charles Lyell has well expressed it, we have " a history of the world imperfectly kept and written...and of each page, only here and there a few lines." Imperfect as we have seen geological record to be, all its direct evidence is in favour of evolution.... | |
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