 | Robert Chambers - 1846 - 318 lehte
...plausible reason for the great and amazing fact that seas were for numberless ages destitute of fish. I fix my opponents down to the consideration of this fact, so that no diversion respecting high mollusks shall avail them. But this is not all. The Silurian is an a?e, as were several subsequent... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1846 - 234 lehte
...plausible reason for the great and amazing fact that seas were for numberless ages destitute of fish. I fix my opponents down to the consideration of this fact, so that no diversion respecting high mollusks shall avail them. But this is not all. The Silurian is an age, as were several subsequent... | |
 | 1850 - 814 lehte
...examined, it is not found to be so. In the first place, it contains no ßsh. I fix my opponents down to thf consideration of this fact, so that no diversion respecting high molluscs shall avail them.' Verily, we need another volume of ' Explanations ;' but when the author ventures upon it, we would... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1851 - 324 lehte
...numberless ages destitute of fish. I fix my opponents down to the consideration of this fact, soihat no diversion respecting high molluscs shall avail...of the " Vestiges " was building greatly more on a pieee of purely negative evidence, the presumed absence of fish from the Lower Silurian formations,... | |
 | 1851 - 608 lehte
...that the first seas were, for numberless ages, destitute of fish. " I fix my opponents," says he, " down to the consideration of this fact, so that no diversion respecting high mollusks shall avail them." " And how," retorts Mr. Miller, " is this bold challenge to be met ? Most... | |
 | 1852 - 1202 lehte
...creation, that the first seas were for numberless ages destitute offish. 'I pin my opponents,' says he, ' down to the consideration of this fact, so that no diversion respecting high mollusks shall avail them.' 'And how,' retorts Mr. Miller, 'is this bold challenge to be met ?' Most... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1856 - 376 lehte
...plausible reason for the great and amazing fact, that seas were for numberless ages destitute of fish. I fix my opponents down to the consideration of this...Vestiges " was building greatly more on a piece of purely nagative evidence, — the presumed absence offish from the Lower Silurian formations, — than purely... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1860 - 328 lehte
...plausible reason for the great and amazing fact that seas were for numberless ages destitute of fish. I fix my opponents down to the consideration of this fact, so that no diversion respecting high mollusks shall avail them. But this is not all. The Silurian is an age, as were several subsequent... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 378 lehte
...plausible reason for the great and amazing fact, that seas were for numberless ages destitute of fish. I fix my opponents down to the consideration of this...shall avail them." And how is this bold challenge to bo met ? Most directly, and after a fashion that at once discomfits the challenger. It might be rationally... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1875 - 372 lehte
...plausible reason for the great and amazing fact, that seas were for numberless ages destitute of fish. I fix my opponents down to the consideration of this...purely negative evidence, — the presumed absence offish from the Lower Silurian formations, — than purely negative evidence is, from its nature as... | |
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... necessary for the creation of the superior creatures. And if so, it undoubtedly is a powerful evidence of such a theory of development as that which I have presented. If not, let me hear an equally plausible reason for the great and amazing fact,... 
