Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 sider |
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Side 16
... higher forms - and that all the changes , whether of a physical or of a vital nature , have ever been in accordance with certain modes and processes , or , in other words , under the unerring direction of fixed and enduring Law . Were ...
... higher forms - and that all the changes , whether of a physical or of a vital nature , have ever been in accordance with certain modes and processes , or , in other words , under the unerring direction of fixed and enduring Law . Were ...
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... higher and more exalted functions ? What more ennobling than the con- viction , that amidst all this mutation and progress - these ever - varying aspects and functions - there is a plan and design to which the whole has ever been ...
... higher and more exalted functions ? What more ennobling than the con- viction , that amidst all this mutation and progress - these ever - varying aspects and functions - there is a plan and design to which the whole has ever been ...
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... higher attributes of conscious intellect and will . Had geology made no other contribution to science than the revelation of the extinct forms of life , vegetable and animal , that lie entombed in the crust of the globe , it would have ...
... higher attributes of conscious intellect and will . Had geology made no other contribution to science than the revelation of the extinct forms of life , vegetable and animal , that lie entombed in the crust of the globe , it would have ...
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... higher standard of qualification demanded from their view- ers and engineers . To the builder and architect in quest of beautiful , strong , and durable materials for their structures , a knowledge of Geology cannot fail to be of ...
... higher standard of qualification demanded from their view- ers and engineers . To the builder and architect in quest of beautiful , strong , and durable materials for their structures , a knowledge of Geology cannot fail to be of ...
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... higher forms ; that all life is bound together by a common plan of evolu- tion ; that man himself partakes of this plan , and has been an inhabitant of the globe for untold centuries ; —when a science makes these and similar averments ...
... higher forms ; that all life is bound together by a common plan of evolu- tion ; that man himself partakes of this plan , and has been an inhabitant of the globe for untold centuries ; —when a science makes these and similar averments ...
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Side 135 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
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