Suggestions Relative to the Philosophy of Geology, as Deduced from the Facts and to the Consistency of Both the Facts and Theory of this Science with Sacred HistoryB. L. Hamlen, 1839 - 119 páginas |
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Página 14 - To any one who considers that on digging into the earth, such quantities of shells, and in some places, bones and horns of animals, are found sound and entire, after having lain there, in all probability, some thousands of years; it would seem probable that gems, medals, and implements in metal or stone, might have lasted entire,
Página 89 - the surface of our globe was a violent inundation, which overwhelmed a great part of the northern hemisphere, and that this event was followed by the sudden disappearance of a large number of the species of terrestrial quadrupeds which had inhabited these regions in the period immediately preceding it. I also ventured to apply the name
Página 79 - laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands."—Ps. cii: 25. " And thou, Lord, in the beginning, hast laid the foundations of the earth."—Heb. i: 10.
Página 103 - of Bize. — Journal. The crust of the globe has been subjected to a great and sudden revolution, which cannot be dated much farther back than five or six thousand years ago. — Cuvier's Theory, 32, 33, 34, 35, and
Página 102 - Ossem. Foss. There was a period when the earth was peopled by oviparous quadrupeds of the most appalling magnitude. Reptiles were the lords of creation. — Dr. Mantell. In Genesis. 24, 25. Creation of the mammalia. 26, 27. Creation of man. Genesis, VII. The flood of Noah, 4200 years ago.
Página 43 - would not all observers say, and have not all actually said,—here are the works of man, his temples, his forums, his amphitheatres, his tombs, his shops of traffic and of arts, his houses, furniture, pictures, and personal ornaments, his streets, with their pavements and wheel-marks, worn in the solid stone, his coins, his grinding mills, his
Página 43 - cinders, does any one hesitate to admit, that they were once real cities, that at the time of their destruction they stood upon what was then the upper surface, that their streets once rang with the noise of business, their halls and theatres with the voice of pleasure: that, in an evil
Página 102 - Dr. Mantell. It will be impossible not to acknowledge as a certain truth, the number, the largeness, and the variety of the reptiles, which inhabited the seas or the land at the epoch in which the strata of Jura were deposited.
Página 42 - over and brought into new forms, and these changes have arisen from the action of those physical laws which the Creator established, and which are as truly his work, as the materials upon which they operate. The amount of time is the only difficulty, and this will vanish before an enlarged and reasonable view of the whole subject,
Página 43 - it is easy to make the case still stronger. When, in 1738, the workmen, in excavating a well,* struck upon the theatre of Herculaneum, which had reposed, for more than sixteen centuries, beneath the lava of Vesuvius; when,