Elementary GeologyIvison & Phinney, 1855 - 419 Seiten This and previous editions include a paleontological chart showing a branching diagram of the plant and animal kingdom against a geological background. Hitchcock referred to it as a tree. This "tree of life" is the earliest known version that incorporates paleontological and geological information. Hitchcock saw a Deity as the agent of change. He explicitly rejected both atheistic evolution, and a religious six-day creation. He perceived that new species were introduced by a Deity at the right time in the history of the earth. The chart is present in all editions between 1840 and 1859. After Darwin (1859) published his Origin of Species, a tree of life image was generally interpreted as an evolutionary tree. In the 1860 edition of Elementary Geology, Hitchcock dropped the chart. In 1863, he wrote an article in which he refuted Darwin's theory of natural selection. After his death in 1864, his son Charles Henry Hitchcock (1836-1919) published a new edition (1870) also without a paleontological chart. Cf. Wikipedia |
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Seite 161 - Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warred on Jove ; Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held ; or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream...
Seite 162 - Milton's fiend, all qualified for all services and all elements, the creature was a fit companion for the kindred reptiles that swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. ' The fiend, O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Seite 161 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Seite 350 - This region was first, by atmospheric and geological causes of previous operation under the will of the Almighty, brought into a condition of superficial ruin, or some kind of general disorder.
Seite 300 - Arabia; but then, the presence of hot springs, sulphur, and asphaltos is not sufficient to attest the anterior existence of a volcano." The learned Frenchman inclines to adopt the idea of Professors Michaelis and...
Seite 353 - which God threatened to Adam, and which passed upon his posterity, is not the going out of this world, but the manner of going.
Seite 332 - This purpose is to show that the whole revelation of the works of God presented to our senses and reason is a system based in what we are compelled, for want of a better term, to call LAW ; by which, however, is not meant a system independent or exclusive of Deity, but one which only proposes a certain mode of his working.
Seite 131 - Monoctotyledons are more capable of resisting the action of water, particularly Palms and Scitamineous plants; but that grasses and sedges perish." " 3. That Fungi, Mosses, and all the lowest forms of vegetation disappear." " 4. That ferns have a great power of resisting water if in a green state, not one of those submitted to the experiment having disappeared; but that their fructification perished.
Seite 347 - If the days were only of 24 hours, this would be very probable, but altogether absurd, if they were long periods. 4. Such a meaning is forced and unnatural ; and therefore not to be adopted without a very urgent necessity.
Seite 351 - For instance, the doctrine introduced by the astronomers 200 years ago, that the earth revolves on its axis, and that the heavenly bodies do not actually rise and set, seemed to the most acute and learned theologians of those times, to be in point blank opposition to the Bible, which declares that the sun ariseth and goeth down, and that God laid the foundation of the earth that it should not be removed forever.