Geognosy; Or, The Facts and Principles of Geology Against TheoriesF. Knight, 1855 - 412 páginas |
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... globe must have existed during a period indefinitely long anterior to the creation of man . We are not aware that any practical and thorough geologist doubts this , what- ever are his views in respect to revelation . " - Hitchcock's ...
... globe must have existed during a period indefinitely long anterior to the creation of man . We are not aware that any practical and thorough geologist doubts this , what- ever are his views in respect to revelation . " - Hitchcock's ...
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... globe to have been created in the form of a gas , as it is to suppose that it was created in the form of vegetables and animals ; organic structures which matter never assumes until after it has existed in another form . An inference of ...
... globe to have been created in the form of a gas , as it is to suppose that it was created in the form of vegetables and animals ; organic structures which matter never assumes until after it has existed in another form . An inference of ...
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... globe , that would be requisite , if ignited , to reduce its whole mass to a state of fusion . On the assumption , however , that there is no lack of combustible matter in the earth for the fusion of all its substances ; there yet , is ...
... globe , that would be requisite , if ignited , to reduce its whole mass to a state of fusion . On the assumption , however , that there is no lack of combustible matter in the earth for the fusion of all its substances ; there yet , is ...
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... globe enter the ocean with such an impulse . So far from it , the currents of all the principal rivers are greatly checked as they approach the sea , divided into numerous channels , and brought to a dead pause , at the distance usually ...
... globe enter the ocean with such an impulse . So far from it , the currents of all the principal rivers are greatly checked as they approach the sea , divided into numerous channels , and brought to a dead pause , at the distance usually ...
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... globe , has no title to be regarded as demonstrative or logical . Geologists must first prove by irrefragable evidence , that the strata were formed by the slow process , which the hypothesis represents , before they can make that mode ...
... globe , has no title to be regarded as demonstrative or logical . Geologists must first prove by irrefragable evidence , that the strata were formed by the slow process , which the hypothesis represents , before they can make that mode ...
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