 Geology, if we could assume that it is part of the plan of Nature to preserve, in every region of the globe, an unbroken series of monuments to commemorate the vicissitudes of the organic creation, we might infer the sudden extirpation of species, and...  The Skies and the Earth - Page 1371902 - 191 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1833 - 570 pages
...extirpation of species, and the simultaneous introduction of others, as often as two formations in contact include dissimilar organic fossils. But we must shut...to perceive that such is not the plan of Nature. I CHAPTER IV. Chronological relations of mineral masses the first object in geological classification... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1834 - 440 pages
...language of the people. infer the sudden extirpation of species, and the simultaneous introduction of others, as often as two formations in contact are...fail to perceive that such is not the plan of Nature. 284 CHAPTER IV. DETERMINATION OF THE RELATIVE AGES OF ROCKS. Chronological relations of mineral masses... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 442 pages
...organic creation, we might infer the sudden extirpation of species, and the simultaneous introduction of others, as often as two formations in contact are...fail to perceive that such is not the plan of Nature. 284 CHAPTER IV. DETERMINATION OF THE RELATIVE AGES OF ROCKS. Chronological relations of mineral masses—... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 584 pages
...organic creation, we might infer the sudden extirpation of species, and the simultaneous introduction of others, as often as two formations in contact are...aqueous, igneous, and organic, if we fail to perceive t/int such is not the plan of Nature. CHAPTER V. i CLASSIFICATION OF TERTIARY FORMATIONS- IN CHRONOLOGICAL... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 870 pages
...organic creation, we might infer the sudden extirpation of species, and the simultaneous introduction of others, as often as two formations in contact are...igneous, and organic, if we fail to perceive that such it not the plan of Nature. Concluding remarks on the identity of the ancient and present system of... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1867 - 746 pages
...organic creation, we might infer the sudden extirpation of species, and the simultaneous introduction of others, as often as two formations in contact are...of Nature. I shall now conclude the discussion of a question with which we have been occupied since the beginning of the fifth chapter ; namely, whether... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 714 pages
...organic creation, we might infer the sudden extirpation of species, and the simultaneous introduction of others, as often as two formations in contact are...of Nature. I shall now conclude the discussion of a question with which we have been occupied since the beginning of the fifth chapter — namely, whether... | |
 | Education, Member of the New Zealand Bar - 1873 - 328 pages
...organic creation, we might infer the sudden extirpation of species, and the simultaneous introduction of others, as often as two formations in contact are...eyes to the whole economy of the existing causes, igneous and organic, if we fail to perceive that suck is not the plan of nature." Hugh Miller clings... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1875 - 702 pages
...might infer the sudden extirpation of species^ and the simultaneous "Introduction of otEers, as ofteff^ as two formations in contact are found to include"...fail to perceive that such is not the plan of Nature. "~~ L shall now conclude the discussion of a question with which we have been occupied since the beginning... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 494 pages
...organic creation, we might infer the sudden extirpation of species, and the simultaneous introduction of others, as often as two formations in contact are...of Nature. I shall now conclude the discussion of a question with which we have been occupied since the beginning of the fifth chapter — namely, whether... | |
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