Geognosy; Or, The Facts and Principles of Geology Against TheoriesF. Knight, 1855 - 412 páginas |
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... suppose the world to have been created in a gaseous form , is therefore to suppose it to have been created in a condition in which it 18 THE GEOLOGICAL THEORY .
... suppose the world to have been created in a gaseous form , is therefore to suppose it to have been created in a condition in which it 18 THE GEOLOGICAL THEORY .
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... suppose the matter of the 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 ...
... suppose the matter of the 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 ...
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... suppose there was once ten thousand times as much quartz , feldspar , or lime ? Is it against a great principle on which they themselves proceed in their speculations , as well as inconsistent with the condition of nature ? What is that ...
... suppose there was once ten thousand times as much quartz , feldspar , or lime ? Is it against a great principle on which they themselves proceed in their speculations , as well as inconsistent with the condition of nature ? What is that ...
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... suppose that , after recording in the first sentence of Genesis the fundamental fact of the original formation of all things by the will of an intelligent Creator , he may pass , sub silentio , some intermediate state , whose ruins ...
... suppose that , after recording in the first sentence of Genesis the fundamental fact of the original formation of all things by the will of an intelligent Creator , he may pass , sub silentio , some intermediate state , whose ruins ...
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... suppose it can be otherwise , is to sup- pose that he has , in the most momentous act of his administration , proclaimed a falsehood which was soon to be detected by his creatures , and place them under an inevitable necessity of ...
... suppose it can be otherwise , is to sup- pose that he has , in the most momentous act of his administration , proclaimed a falsehood which was soon to be detected by his creatures , and place them under an inevitable necessity of ...
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