The Truth of Revelation, Demonstrated by an Appeal to Existing Monuments, Sculptures, Gems, Coins, and Medals |
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... geologist have changed their form and dimensions like a Proteus , and almost as rapidly as the hues of the chameleon ; happily , how- ever , his wild eccentricities have not overturned the mountains of the globe ; and our appeal is to ...
... geologist have changed their form and dimensions like a Proteus , and almost as rapidly as the hues of the chameleon ; happily , how- ever , his wild eccentricities have not overturned the mountains of the globe ; and our appeal is to ...
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... geologists will quail before their rigid exactions , and these archi- tects of worlds hide their diminished heads . Too much deference , we think , has been paid to genius - men of vast acquirements in literature , or art and science ...
... geologists will quail before their rigid exactions , and these archi- tects of worlds hide their diminished heads . Too much deference , we think , has been paid to genius - men of vast acquirements in literature , or art and science ...
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... Geologists are generally a sceptical race ; but whether such scepticism rests on a philosophical basis , we may well question . These chronologists of the world's age are constantly petition- ing their idol CHRONOS for immense measures ...
... Geologists are generally a sceptical race ; but whether such scepticism rests on a philosophical basis , we may well question . These chronologists of the world's age are constantly petition- ing their idol CHRONOS for immense measures ...
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... geologist will still remain an infidel . Those who grant the question to this personage , only tamper with infide- lity , while the geologist chuckles , in the meanwhile , over his neophyte . An infidel geology is anxious to carry us ...
... geologist will still remain an infidel . Those who grant the question to this personage , only tamper with infide- lity , while the geologist chuckles , in the meanwhile , over his neophyte . An infidel geology is anxious to carry us ...
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... geologists . The fossil world has revealed no organic remains of quadrumanous animals ; but it by no means follows , that they may not yet be found ; and precisely the same process of reasoning applied by Mr. Lyell to this question ...
... geologists . The fossil world has revealed no organic remains of quadrumanous animals ; but it by no means follows , that they may not yet be found ; and precisely the same process of reasoning applied by Mr. Lyell to this question ...
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