Geognosy; Or, The Facts and Principles of Geology Against TheoriesF. Knight, 1855 - 412 páginas |
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... Take away that hypothesis , and the inference becomes , like the other , a non sequitur . But that hypothesis is not ... taking place on our own earth , that the accumulation of materials at the bottom of the ocean is a work infinitely ...
... Take away that hypothesis , and the inference becomes , like the other , a non sequitur . But that hypothesis is not ... taking place on our own earth , that the accumulation of materials at the bottom of the ocean is a work infinitely ...
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... taken place since the creation of the world , such as the for- mation of strata , and their subsequent modifications , are to be referred entirely to such forces as are now in activity , and producing similar changes on the earth's ...
... taken place since the creation of the world , such as the for- mation of strata , and their subsequent modifications , are to be referred entirely to such forces as are now in activity , and producing similar changes on the earth's ...
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... taken place , except such as may have been produced by those forces . As they are held to be the only causes of geological effects , and the scale on which they are now acting is taken as the exponent of their capacity to produce their ...
... taken place , except such as may have been produced by those forces . As they are held to be the only causes of geological effects , and the scale on which they are now acting is taken as the exponent of their capacity to produce their ...
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... taken place . * * It results also from these positions , not only that all effects , if there are such , that cannot be referred to those agents , are excluded from the sphere of the science , but that all those of the species pro ...
... taken place . * * It results also from these positions , not only that all effects , if there are such , that cannot be referred to those agents , are excluded from the sphere of the science , but that all those of the species pro ...
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... taken place anterior to the Mosaic epoch . They find indubitable proofs in the depths of the earth , that light and dry land were contemporaneous with those races ; but none that at a later epoch they were struck from existence . The ...
... taken place anterior to the Mosaic epoch . They find indubitable proofs in the depths of the earth , that light and dry land were contemporaneous with those races ; but none that at a later epoch they were struck from existence . The ...
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