...remained stationary for "most indefinite periods ; " and then proceeds w parallel this with the fact that " The rate of Progress in the arts and sciences...proceeds in a geometrical ratio as knowledge increases," the arlier advance being by so much the more -tow, '• so that the progress of a thousand years at...

...remained stationary for almost indefinite periods; " and then proceeds to parallel this with the fact that" The rate of progress in the arts and sciences...proceeds in a geometrical ratio as knowledge increases," the earlier advance being by so much the more •low," so that the progress of a thousand years at...

...for many generations. Sir Charles himself says, " We see in our own times that the rate of progress proceeds in a geometrical ratio as knowledge increases...years at a remote period may correspond to that of a century in modern times, and in ages still more remote man would more and more resemble the brutes...

...of it. And Sir Charles Lyell is not, we think, indifferent altogether to its importance. He says, " We see in our own times that the rate of progress...retrospect into the past we must be prepared to find signs of retardation augmenting in a like geometrical ratio, so that the progress of a thousand years...

...folk ' using the commoner articles?* In order to push back the stone age as far as possible he says, ' We see in our own times, that the rate of progress...ratio as knowledge increases ; and so when we carry our retrospect into the past, we must be prepared to find the signs of retardation augmenting in a...

...remained stationary for almost indefinite periods ; " and then proceeds to parallel this with the fact that " The rate of progress in the arts and sciences...proceeds in a geometrical ratio as knowledge increases," the earlier advance being by so much the more slow, " so that the progress of a thousand years at a...

...folk' using the commoner articles?* In order to push back the stone age as far as possible he says, ' We see in our own times, that the rate of progress in the * This Sir J. Lnbbock allows in his Pre-historic Time, p. 69, first edition ; p. 76, second edition....

...advances so much more rapidly in modern than it did in ancient times.1 As Sir Charles Lyell observes ; " We see in our own times that the rate of progress...years at a remote period may correspond to that of a century in modern times, nnd in ages still more remote Man would more and more resemble the brutes...

...advances so much more rapidly in modern than it did in ancient times.1 As Sir Charles Lyell observes; " We see in our own times that the rate of progress...years at a remote period may correspond to that of a century in modem times, and in agea still more remote Man would more and more resemble the brutes...

...advances so much more rapidly in modern than it did in ancient times.1 As Sir Charles Lyell observes; " We see in our own times that the rate of progress...our retrospect into the past, we must be prepared to tiud the signs of retardation augmenting in a like geometrical ratio ; so that the progress of a thousand...