 We were induced to enter into that enquiry by reflecting how much the progress of opinion in Geology had been influenced by the assumption that the analogy was slight in kind, and still more slight in degree, between the causes which produced the former...  The Skies and the Earth - Page 1371902 - 191 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1842 - 494 pages
...uniform system of change in the animate and inanimate world. We were induced to enter into that inquiry by reflecting how much the progress of opinion in...former revolutions of the globe, and those now in every day operation. It appeared clear that the earlier geologists had not only a scanty acquaintance... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1847 - 866 pages
...uniform system of change in the animate and inanimate world. We were induced to enter into that inquiry by reflecting how much the progress of opinion in...that the earlier geologists had not only a scanty acquaintance with existing changes, but were singularly unconscious of the amount of their ignorance.... | |
 | 1853 - 688 pages
...uniform system of change in the animate or inanimate world. We were induced to enter into that inquiry, by reflecting how much the progress of opinion in...that the earlier geologists had not only a scanty acquaintance with existing changes, but were singularly unconscious of the amount of their ignorance.... | |
 | 1853 - 690 pages
...uniform system of change in the animate or inanimate world. We were induced to enter into that inquiry, by reflecting how much the progress of opinion in...geology had been influenced by the assumption that the analog}' was slight in kind, and still more slight in degree, between the causes which produced the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1867 - 746 pages
...chapter ; namely, whether there has been any interruption, from the remotest periods, of one uniform system of change in the animate and inanimate world....that the earlier geologists had not only a scanty acquaintance with existing changes, but were singularly unconscious of the amount of their ignorance.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 712 pages
...of a question with which we have been occupied since the beginning of the fifth chapter — namely, whether there has been any interruption, from the...that the earlier geologists had not only a scanty acquaintance with existing changes, but were singularly unconscious of the amount of their ignorance.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 714 pages
...of a question with which we have been occupied since the beginning of the fifth chapter — namely, whether there has been any interruption, from the...that the earlier geologists had not only a scanty acquaintance with existing changes, but were singularly unconscious of the amount of their ignorance.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1875 - 702 pages
...there has been airj_ interruption^ from the remotest periods, of one uniform and continuous svstem of change in the animate and inanimate world". We...that the earlier geologists had not only a scanty acquaintance with existing changes, but were singularly unconscious of the amount of their iepbrance"... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 482 pages
...continuous system of change in the animate and inanimate world. We were induced to enter into that inquiry by reflecting how much the progress of opinion in...that the earlier geologists had not only a scanty acquaintance with existing changes, but were singularly unconscious of the amount of their ignorance.... | |
 | 1910 - 542 pages
...of a question with which we have been occupied since the beginning of the fifth chapter — namely, whether there has been any interruption, from the...that the earlier geologists had not only a scanty acquaintance with existing changes, but were singularly unconscious of the amount of their ignorance.... | |
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