| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1872 - 826 pages
...greater as more and more such specimens are found ; until at last this hypothesis, .although it can not be directly disproved, is felt to be almost inconceivable,...in a different direction, do not apprehend as such. Of all departments of science, geology seems to me to be the one that most depends on this speciallytrained... | |
| 1872 - 806 pages
...unhesitating assent of all whose opinion on the subject is entitled to the least weight. We proceed upward, however, from such questions as the common-* sense...in a different direction, do not apprehend as such. Of all departments of science, geology seems to me to be the one that most depends on this specially-trained... | |
| 1872 - 798 pages
...is entitled to the least weight. We proceed upward, however, from such questions as the commonsense of mankind generally is competent to decide, to those...in a different direction, do not apprehend as such. Of all departments of science, geology seems to me to be the one that most depends on this specially-trained... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1872 - 574 pages
...entitled to the least weight. We proceed upwards, however, from such questions as the Common Sense oí Mankind generally is competent to decide, to those...in a different direction, do not apprehend as such. Of all departments of Science, Geology seems to me to be the one that most depends on this specially-trained... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1873 - 900 pages
...Man. And thus what was in the first instance a matter of discussion, has now become one of thoso " self-evident " propositions, which claim the unhesitating...in a different direction, do not apprehend as such. Of all departments of Science, Geology seems to mo to be the one that most depends on this specially-trained... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1873 - 902 pages
...entitled to the least weight. We proceed upwards, however, from such questions as the Common Sonso of Mankind generally is competent to decide, to those...in a different direction, do not apprehend as such. Of «11 departments of Science, Geology seems to me to be the one that most depends on this specially-trained... | |
| William Benjamin Carpenter - 1888 - 504 pages
...unhesitating assent of all whose opinion on the subject is entitled to the least weight. We proceed upward, however, from such questions as the common sense of...in a different direction, do not apprehend as such. Of all departments of science, geology seems to me to be the one that most depends on this specially-trained... | |
| 1872 - 734 pages
...decide, we come to those in which special knowledge is necessary to give value to the judgment, and then the interpretation of nature by the use of that faculty comes to be more and more individual. Of all sciences geology is that which seems to Dr. Carpenter most completely to represent Nature as... | |
| 1873 - 1098 pages
...value to the judgment ; and thus the interpretation 'of Nature by the use of that faculty comes to bo more and more individual; things being perfectly " self-evident " to men of special culturo, which ordinary mon, or men whose training has lain in 8> different direction, do not apprehend... | |
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