 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1881 - 888 pages
...of <f«wn, to which, after an examination < f one or two Ordinary and Special Common Sense. 479 euch specimens, we should only be justified in attaching...to our minds greater and greater as more and more such specimens are found ; until at last this hypothesis, although it cannot be directly disproved,... | |
 | Alexander John Ellis - 1882 - 110 pages
...Carpenter (ibid.}, using the flint implements found at Abbeville and Amiens as an illustration, says : " The evidence of design to which, after an examination...flints acquired their peculiar shape by accident" — where the phrase only means by some unknown, and even unguessed relation, different from that previously... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1883 - 816 pages
...flints were given to them by Human hands ; but no unprejudiced person who has examined them now doubts it. The evidence of design, to which, after an examination of one or tw• such specimens, we should only be justified in attaching a probable value, derives an irresistible... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1888 - 504 pages
...required, what we are accustomed to call the " flint implements " of the Abbeville and Amiens gravel-beds. No logical proof can be adduced that the peculiar...cogency from accumulation. On the other hand, the //«probability that these flints acquired their peculiar shape by accident, becomes to our minds greater... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1879 - 580 pages
...required, what we are accustomed to call the 'flint implements' of the Abbeville and Amiens gravel-beds. No logical proof can be adduced that the peculiar...to our minds greater and greater as more and more such specimens are found ; until at last this hypothesis, although it cannot be directly disproved,... | |
 | 1873 - 1098 pages
...sufficiently • See Drinkwater's ' Life of Kepler,' in the Library of Uieful Knowledge, pp. 26-35. !*iven to them by human hands ; but does any unprejudiced...examination of one or two such specimens, we should only bo justified in attaching a probablevalue, derives an irresistible cogency from accumulation. On the... | |
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... of the Abbeville and Amiens gravel-beds. No logical proof can be adduced that the peculiar shapes of these flints were given to them by Human hands; but does any unprejudiced person now doubt it? The evidence of design, to which, after an examination... 
