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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... Tree - trunks in a Coal Mine ... 68. The Continent at the end of Paleozoic Time . Frond of an ancient Tree - fern ( Pecopteris ) . 69. Labyrinthodon ( restored ) ............ . 70. Ideal Landscape of the Age of Reptiles . 71 ...
... Tree - trunks in a Coal Mine ... 68. The Continent at the end of Paleozoic Time . Frond of an ancient Tree - fern ( Pecopteris ) . 69. Labyrinthodon ( restored ) ............ . 70. Ideal Landscape of the Age of Reptiles . 71 ...
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... trees , and birds , and rocks , and fossils , and other material things which metaphysics affects to despise , we have found that they combine themselves into a lan- guage freighted with grand conceptions , and rich in utter- ances of ...
... trees , and birds , and rocks , and fossils , and other material things which metaphysics affects to despise , we have found that they combine themselves into a lan- guage freighted with grand conceptions , and rich in utter- ances of ...
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... or bores its way into the shells of other molluscs , or into solid stone . But it never climbs trees or marble columns to build its nest , like a bird in the air . How , then , 獅 ப Fig . 5. View of the Temple of THE ORDEAL BY WATER . 19.
... or bores its way into the shells of other molluscs , or into solid stone . But it never climbs trees or marble columns to build its nest , like a bird in the air . How , then , 獅 ப Fig . 5. View of the Temple of THE ORDEAL BY WATER . 19.
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... trees stand beneath the hard beach shell - rock , immersed in the water at the lowest tides . Some of the sounds upon the coast of North Carolina , which have been navigable within the memory of living sea - captains , are now impassa ...
... trees stand beneath the hard beach shell - rock , immersed in the water at the lowest tides . Some of the sounds upon the coast of North Carolina , which have been navigable within the memory of living sea - captains , are now impassa ...
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... tree into existence . Does any one hesitate to admit that an oak has undergone a slow and regular “ development " - or that the delta of the Mississippi is undergoing " devel- opment " -- or that the cone of Vesuvius is undergoing " de ...
... tree into existence . Does any one hesitate to admit that an oak has undergone a slow and regular “ development " - or that the delta of the Mississippi is undergoing " devel- opment " -- or that the cone of Vesuvius is undergoing " de ...
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