The Earth's History: An Introduction to Modern GeologyJ. Murray, 1893 - 270 pages |
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Page 225 - CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, Publishers '"THIS Series, to be published by John Murray in * England and Charles Scribner's Sons in America, is the outgrowth of the University Extension movement, and is designed to supply the need so widely felt of authorized books for study and reference both by students and by the general public. The aim of these Manuals is to educate »rather than to inform. In their preparation, details...
Page 218 - Within a finite period of time past, the earth must have been, and within a finite period of time to come, the earth must again be, unfit for the habitation of man as at present constituted, unless operations have been, or are to be performed, which are impossible under the laws to which the known operations going on at present in the material world are subject.
Page 229 - I2mo, $1.50 net. CONTENTS : Story of Nature — Substance of Nature — Power of Nature — The Earth a Spinning Ball — The Earth a Planet — The Solar System and Universe — The Atmosphere — Atmospheric Phenomena— Climates — The Hydrosphere — Bed of the Oceans — Crust of the Earth — Action of Water on Land — Record of the Rocks — Continental Area — Life and Living Creatures — Man in Nature — Appendices — Index.
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Page 229 - ... Introduction. — THE AGE OF INFANCY (a. Birth) — THE AGE OF INFANCY (b. Growth) — THE AGE OF ADOLESCENCE (Sixteenth Century) — THE AGE OF GLORY, Part I. POETRY, ETC. — THE AGE OF GLORY, Part II. PROSE — THE AGE OF REASON, Part I. — THE AGE OF REASON, Part II. — THE AGE OF 'NATURE7 — SOURCES OF MODERN FRENCH LITERARY ART : POETRY — SOURCES OF PROSE FICTION — APPENDIX — INDEX.
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Page 216 - We have now got to the end of our reasoning ; we have no data further to conclude immediately from that which actually is. But we have got enough, — we have the satisfaction to find that, in Nature, there is wisdom, system, and consistency.
Page 217 - The result, therefore, of this physical inquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning, — no prospect of an end"§.
Page 6 - Ahriman, and the waters that are below the firmament, of Ormuzd? Do you take up a reproach against the lightnings for that they only shatter and shiver, but never construct? Or have you a quarrel with the winds because they fight against the churches, and build them not? In all nature, spiritual and physical, do you not see that some powers and agents have it for their function to abolish and demolish and derange - other some to construct and set in order? But is not the destruction, then, as natural,...