 When the unlocked for association of such rare phenomena is witnessed in the present course of nature, it scarcely ever fails to excite a suspicion of the preternatural in those minds which are not firmly convinced of the uniform agency of secondary causes...  The Edinburgh Journal of Science - Page 3441830Full view - About this book
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - 634 pages
...preternatural in those minds which are not firmly convinced of the uniform agency of secondary causes ;— aa if the death of some individual in whose fate they...a few months; and numerous other examples might be found of popular geological theories, which require us to imagine that a long succession of events... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 500 pages
...all calculation of chances to suppose them to happen at one and the same time. When the unlooked-for association of such rare phenomena is witnessed in...their nature, which were imagined by the Woodwardian hyphothesis to have happened in the course of a few months : and numerous other examples might be found... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 568 pages
...nature, it scarcely ever fails to excite a suspicion of the preternatural in those minds which arc not firmly convinced of the uniform agency of secondary...few months ; and numerous other examples might be found of popular geological theories, which require us to imagine that a long succession of events... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1865 - 880 pages
...appearance of a luminous meteor, or a comet, or the shock of an earthquake. It would be only necessaiy to multiply such coincidences indefinitely, and the...few months ; and numerous other examples might be found of popular geological theories, which require us to imagine that a long succession of events... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1868 - 876 pages
...they are interested happens to be accompanied by the appearance of a luminous meteor, or a comet, 01 the shock of an earthquake. It would be only necessary...the mind of every philosopher would be disturbed, Afow it would be difficult to exaggerate the number of physical events, many of them most rare and... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 714 pages
...all calculation of chances to suppose them to happen at one and the same time. When the unlooked-for association of such rare phenomena is witnessed in...hypothesis to have happened in the course of a few mouths : and numerous other examples might be found of popular geological theories, which require us... | |
 | 1910 - 436 pages
...all calculation of chances to suppose them to happen at one and the same time. When the unlooked-for association of such rare phenomena is witnessed in...a few months: and numerous other examples might be found of popular geological theories, which require us to imagine that a long succession of events... | |
 | 1910 - 476 pages
...animals or plants could survive, and the surface would be one confused heap of ruin and desolation. secondary causes; — as if the death of some individual...a few months: and numerous other examples might be found of popular geological theories, which require us to imagine that a long succession of events... | |
 | Richard L. Stein - 1988 - 361 pages
...contemporaries viewed the geologic record, one even more directly applicable to In Memoriam. It is "as if the death of some individual in whose fate...indefinitely, and the mind of every philosopher would be disturbed."27 For Tennyson, who would have been struck by this passage, the earthquake was in part... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1990 - 594 pages
...such rare phenomena is witnessed in the present course of nature, it scarcely ever fails to excite'a suspicion of the preternatural in those minds which...few months ; and numerous other examples might be found of popular geological theories, which require us to imagine that a long succession of events... | |
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