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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... present . The work will also be found useful as an aid in re- view . The student may plod ever so diligently and ever so intelligently through the details of a science ; he is apt to gain only vague impressions and floating ideas ...
... present . The work will also be found useful as an aid in re- view . The student may plod ever so diligently and ever so intelligently through the details of a science ; he is apt to gain only vague impressions and floating ideas ...
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... present century show that the foundations of this temple are again sinking at the rate of one inch per year . Such an example , thus authenticated , throws a flood of light upon the problems of geology . It establishes the doctrine of ...
... present century show that the foundations of this temple are again sinking at the rate of one inch per year . Such an example , thus authenticated , throws a flood of light upon the problems of geology . It establishes the doctrine of ...
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... present surface of the sea . The island of Grand Manan , off the mouth of the St. Croix River , is slowly rotating on an axis , so that , while the south side is gradually dipping beneath the waves , the north is lifted into high bluffs ...
... present surface of the sea . The island of Grand Manan , off the mouth of the St. Croix River , is slowly rotating on an axis , so that , while the south side is gradually dipping beneath the waves , the north is lifted into high bluffs ...
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... present knowledge of the oscillations . which are going on in the comparative level of continents and oceans , he would seem to be beyond the reach of argu- ment who can still deny that our beautiful prairies have , for ages instead of ...
... present knowledge of the oscillations . which are going on in the comparative level of continents and oceans , he would seem to be beyond the reach of argu- ment who can still deny that our beautiful prairies have , for ages instead of ...
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... present by single links ; and thus do we learn the identity of that In- telligence whose finger - marks remain upon the ruins of past geological epochs , and whose wisdom and benevo- lence have beautified the landscapes which we daily ...
... present by single links ; and thus do we learn the identity of that In- telligence whose finger - marks remain upon the ruins of past geological epochs , and whose wisdom and benevo- lence have beautified the landscapes which we daily ...
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Page 118 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, —...
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