Geognosy; Or, The Facts and Principles of Geology Against TheoriesF. Knight, 1855 - 412 páginas |
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... processes of erosion and deposition now advance , prove that an immense series of ages must have been required for their formation . This inference of the age of the world , is thus founded on a theory of the sources from which the ...
... processes of erosion and deposition now advance , prove that an immense series of ages must have been required for their formation . This inference of the age of the world , is thus founded on a theory of the sources from which the ...
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... process , which the hypothesis represents , before they can make that mode of their formation , the ground of an inference of the vast age of the world . To assume that hundreds or thousands of years were necessary for the structure of ...
... process , which the hypothesis represents , before they can make that mode of their formation , the ground of an inference of the vast age of the world . To assume that hundreds or thousands of years were necessary for the structure of ...
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... processes by which they were formed . they do not prove the great age of the world , by what they themselves are , irrespective of any specu- lations , in regard to the agents by which they were formed , they cannot prove it at all ...
... processes by which they were formed . they do not prove the great age of the world , by what they themselves are , irrespective of any specu- lations , in regard to the agents by which they were formed , they cannot prove it at all ...
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... processes which produced them may be imagined to have proceeded at a more rapid rate , and in a different manner at that period , than they do at present , we reply , that such a supposition would strike at the root of every species of ...
... processes which produced them may be imagined to have proceeded at a more rapid rate , and in a different manner at that period , than they do at present , we reply , that such a supposition would strike at the root of every species of ...
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... processes of nature are explained , and can , like the movements of the bodies of the solar system , be made the subject of exact calculation , and traced back through the past , or forward to the future . In- stead , it is a mere ...
... processes of nature are explained , and can , like the movements of the bodies of the solar system , be made the subject of exact calculation , and traced back through the past , or forward to the future . In- stead , it is a mere ...
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