Quarterly Journal of Science, and Annals of Mining, Metallurgy, Engineering, Industrial Arts, Manufactures, and Technology, 14. köideJames Samuelson, Sir William Crookes J. Churchill and Sons., 1877 |
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... deposits are then covered with clay , and as soon as the bank appears above the surface of the water , and is formed , the slopes are protected from the wash of the waves with fascines . The canal channel is then dredged between the ...
... deposits are then covered with clay , and as soon as the bank appears above the surface of the water , and is formed , the slopes are protected from the wash of the waves with fascines . The canal channel is then dredged between the ...
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... deposit , states that skilful geologists peculiarly well acquainted with the physical geography of Europe have ... deposits , after man had penetrated into Europe , and all the species of animals and plants now living had come into ...
... deposit , states that skilful geologists peculiarly well acquainted with the physical geography of Europe have ... deposits , after man had penetrated into Europe , and all the species of animals and plants now living had come into ...
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... deposits formed beneath the waters of that ocean contain no marine organisms over thousands of square miles , what confidence can we feel in those theories that map out the continents in older geological periods according to the ...
... deposits formed beneath the waters of that ocean contain no marine organisms over thousands of square miles , what confidence can we feel in those theories that map out the continents in older geological periods according to the ...
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... deposit and afterwards the volcanoes were active . The veteran geologist , Herr Henry von Dechen , has mapped out these deposits , and described them in his " Geognostischer Fichrer zu dem Laacher . " He has informed me that one of the ...
... deposit and afterwards the volcanoes were active . The veteran geologist , Herr Henry von Dechen , has mapped out these deposits , and described them in his " Geognostischer Fichrer zu dem Laacher . " He has informed me that one of the ...
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... deposit was first given by Sir Charles Lyell , and has been since advocated with great ability by Mr. Boyd Dawkins . That this is correct - and not that we have here the mixture of the remains of animals be- longing to two periods , one ...
... deposit was first given by Sir Charles Lyell , and has been since advocated with great ability by Mr. Boyd Dawkins . That this is correct - and not that we have here the mixture of the remains of animals be- longing to two periods , one ...
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Page 517 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 41 - To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
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Page 284 - ... the nature of things depending on them would be changed. Water and earth, composed of old worn particles and fragments of particles, would not be of the same nature and texture now, with water and earth composed of entire particles at the beginning ; and therefore, that nature may be lasting, the changes of corporeal things are to be placed only in the various separations, and new associations and motions of these permanent particles...
Page 519 - The inference I would draw from this class of phenomena is, that a superior intelligence has guided the development of man in a definite direction, and for a special purpose, just as man guides the development of many animal and vegetable forms.
Page 44 - A monstrous eft was of old the Lord and Master of Earth, For him did his high sun flame, and his river billowing ran, And he felt himself in his force to be Nature's crowning race. As nine months go to the shaping an infant ripe for his birth, So many a million of ages have gone to the making of man: He now is first, but is he the last? is he not too base?
Page 42 - ... animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated...
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Page 34 - What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern, and should include similar bones, in the same relative positions...