Sketches of Creation: A Popular View of Some of the Grand Conclusions of the Sciences in Reference to the History of Matter and of Life. Together with a Statement of the Intimations of Science Respecting the Primordial Condition and the Ultimate Destiny of the Earth and the Solar SystemHarper & brothers, 1870 - 459 páginas |
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... organic remains entombed in these sediments . Their number is fifteen or twenty times as great as that of all existing animals . No evidence exists that the waters of the Mosaic flood were so immensely pop- ulous , nor that they were ...
... organic remains entombed in these sediments . Their number is fifteen or twenty times as great as that of all existing animals . No evidence exists that the waters of the Mosaic flood were so immensely pop- ulous , nor that they were ...
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... organic re- mains . The granites of this class exhibit no evidence of having been produced from sediments . They bear the marks of fire . The devouring element has caused their stubborn sides to yield . They have been in a molten con ...
... organic re- mains . The granites of this class exhibit no evidence of having been produced from sediments . They bear the marks of fire . The devouring element has caused their stubborn sides to yield . They have been in a molten con ...
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... organic existence . The atmosphere was unfit for respi- ration ; and the waters , if not too highly heated , were nev ertheless charged with impurities destructive to both veg- etable and animal life . It was a dreary and monotonous age ...
... organic existence . The atmosphere was unfit for respi- ration ; and the waters , if not too highly heated , were nev ertheless charged with impurities destructive to both veg- etable and animal life . It was a dreary and monotonous age ...
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... organic * forms . There was , in all probability , an earliest epoch that was completely destitute of organic forms . But , to ascertain its beginning and its end , Geology must yet ap- ply herself to a closer study of the monuments of ...
... organic * forms . There was , in all probability , an earliest epoch that was completely destitute of organic forms . But , to ascertain its beginning and its end , Geology must yet ap- ply herself to a closer study of the monuments of ...
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... organic forms . which now teem in the PALEOZOIC sea . " Say , mysterious Earth ! oh say , great Mother and Goddess ! Was it not well with thee then , when first thy lap was ungirdled , Thy lap to the genial Heaven , the day that he ...
... organic forms . which now teem in the PALEOZOIC sea . " Say , mysterious Earth ! oh say , great Mother and Goddess ! Was it not well with thee then , when first thy lap was ungirdled , Thy lap to the genial Heaven , the day that he ...
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