 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1840 - 486 pages
...nature of organized fossils, that they seem to have been ready to make any concessions, in order to establish this preliminary point. Such a compromising...of succession in mineral masses, by means of their differ, ent organic contents, and their regular superposition. But the old diluvialists were induced... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 714 pages
...distinctas Etruriae facies agnoscimus, dum bis fluida, bis plana, et sicca, bia aspera fuerit,' &c. theoretical fallacy, in any branch of science, interfere...system to confound all the groups of strata together, referring all appearances to one cause and to one brief period, not to a variety of causes acting throughout... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 712 pages
...distinctas EtruriEe facies agnoscimns, dum bis fluida, bis plana, et sicca, bis aspera fuerit,' &c. theoretical fallacy, in any branch of science, interfere...system to confound all the groups of strata together, referring all appearances to one cause and to one brief period, not to a variety of causes acting throughout... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1875 - 702 pages
...exploding the hypothesis, that organised fossils had all been buried in the solid strata by Noah's flood. Never did a theoretical fallacy, in any branch...organic contents, and their regular superposition. But^fhe old diluvialists were induced by their system to confound all the groups of strata together,... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1875 - 604 pages
...in exploding the hypothesis that organized fossils had all been buried in the solid strata by Noah's flood. Never did a theoretical fallacy in any branch...interfere more seriously with accurate observation and systematic classification of facts. * * * Quirini, in 1676, * * was the first writer who ventured to... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1918 - 616 pages
...exploding the hypothesis, that organised fossils had all been buried in the solid strata by Noah's flood. Never did a theoretical fallacy, in any branch...superposition. But the old diluvialists were induced by their 1 Tertullian, De Pallia, 2, " Muta- fluitasse." vit et tatus orbis aliquando, aquis omnibus obsitus... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1923 - 532 pages
...exploding the hypothesis, that organised fossils had all been buried in the solid strata by Noah's flood. Never did a theoretical fallacy, in any branch...system to confound all the groups of strata together, referring all appearances to one cause and to one brief period, not to a variety of causes acting throughout... | |
 | Frazer, Sir James George FRS, FBA - 1923 - 586 pages
...exploding the hypothesis, that organised fossils had all been buried in the solid strata by Noah's flood. Never did a theoretical fallacy, in any branch...superposition. But the old diluvialists were induced by their systems to confound all the groups of strata together, referring all appearances to one cause and to... | |
 | John Newton Friend - 1926 - 242 pages
...catastrophe by which considerable change had been wrought on the Earth's surface. " Never," said Lyell, " did a theoretical fallacy, in any branch of science,...observation and the systematic classification of facts. "f So long as these views were held there seemed but little encouragement or scope for antiquarian... | |
 | John Newton Friend - 1926 - 242 pages
...catastrophe by which considerable change had been wrought on the Earth's surface. " Never," said Lyell, " did a theoretical fallacy, in any branch of science,...accurate observation and the systematic classification of facts."f So long as these views were held there seemed but little encouragement or scope for antiquarian... | |
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... fossils were mere sports of nature. An additional period of a century and a half was now destined to be consumed in exploding the hypothesis, that organised fossils had all been buried in the solid strata by Noah's flood. Never did a theoretical fallacy,... 
