Sketches of Creation: A Popular View of Some of the Grand Conclusions of the Sciences in Reference to the History of Matter and of Life. Together with a Statement of the Intimations of Science Respecting the Primordial Condition and the Ultimate Destiny of the Earth and the Solar System |
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... epoch have swept in grandeur which no human eye was yet created to contem- plate ; then , in the preappointed order of Providence , man came upon the earth ; and to - day , after the lapse of an in- terval of time which , to human ...
... epoch have swept in grandeur which no human eye was yet created to contem- plate ; then , in the preappointed order of Providence , man came upon the earth ; and to - day , after the lapse of an in- terval of time which , to human ...
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... epoch survived the catastro- phes which brought death to all terrestrial existence , and continued to prosecute his unchanged purposes through succeeding epochs . Thus fire and water , in their ever - varying. Fig . 10. Fingal's Cave in ...
... epoch survived the catastro- phes which brought death to all terrestrial existence , and continued to prosecute his unchanged purposes through succeeding epochs . Thus fire and water , in their ever - varying. Fig . 10. Fingal's Cave in ...
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... epoch to which we can climb , by the chain of cause and effect ? What hinders us from mounting beyond the molten to the gaseous state of the world ? We will do it . We venture to gaze upon a world glowing as an immensity of flame ...
... epoch to which we can climb , by the chain of cause and effect ? What hinders us from mounting beyond the molten to the gaseous state of the world ? We will do it . We venture to gaze upon a world glowing as an immensity of flame ...
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... epoch would have seen the dusky atmosphere begin to thicken . In the far - off regions , wisps of vapor crept along the sky , as cirrhi in our day foretoken the gathering storm . They grew , and thickened , and dark- ened till a pall of ...
... epoch would have seen the dusky atmosphere begin to thicken . In the far - off regions , wisps of vapor crept along the sky , as cirrhi in our day foretoken the gathering storm . They grew , and thickened , and dark- ened till a pall of ...
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... epoch dawns , it reveals the change of scene . The surface which , in the preceding age , was scorched and arid , is now a universal sea of tepid waters . The earliest ocean enveloped the earth on every hand . A few isolated granite ...
... epoch dawns , it reveals the change of scene . The surface which , in the preceding age , was scorched and arid , is now a universal sea of tepid waters . The earliest ocean enveloped the earth on every hand . A few isolated granite ...
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Page i - SKETCHES OF CREATION. Sketches of Creation: a Popular View of some of the Grand Conclusions of the Sciences in reference to the History of Matter and of Life. Together with a Statement of the Intimations of Science respecting the Primordial Condition and the Ultimate Destiny of the Earth and the Solar System. By ALEXANDER WINCHELL, LL.D., Professor of Geology, Zoology, and Botany in the University of Michigan, and Director of the State Geological Survey.