The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man: With Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by VariationJ. W. Childs, 1863 - 526 Seiten |
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Abbeville Acheul alluded alluvial alluvium Alps Amiens ancient animals antiquity Aurignac basin beds belong boulder brain British bronze cave caverns century chalk CHAP character clay cliffs Crag Danish deposits depth drift elephant Elephas antiquus Engis Eocene erratic blocks Europe existence extinct mammalia fauna feet thick flint implements flint tools flora fluviatile formation fossil fragments fresh-water genera geographical geological geologists glacial period glaciers Glen Roy gravel Greenland hatchets height hippopotamus human bones hundred imbedded inhabiting islands lakes land Liége living species loam loess lower mammalia mammoth marine shells mastodon memoir miles Miocene moraines natural Neanderthal observed occur origin peat plants pliocene posterior present Prestwich primigenius Professor quadrupeds race recent region remains Rhine rhinoceros river rocks sand Schmerling Scotland seen skeleton skull Somme stone period strata stratified submergence supposed surface Switzerland tertiary theory tion transmutation upper valley
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Seite 187 - Here bring the last gifts !—and with these The last lament be said; Let all that pleased, and yet may please, Be buried with the dead. " Beneath his head the hatchet hide, That he so stoutly swung; And place the bear's fat haunch beside— The journey hence is long ! "And let the knife new-sharpened be That on the battle-day
Seite 502 - such leaps may have successively introduced not only higher and higher forms and grades of intellect, but at a much remoter period may have cleared at one bound the space which separated the highest Stage of the unprogrcssive intelligence of the inferior animals from the first and lowest form of improvable reason manifested by Man.
Seite 495 - of the immortality of man apply equally to the permanency of this principle in other living beings." Although the author has no intention by this remark to impugn the truth of the great doctrine alluded to, it may be well to observe, that if some of the arguments in
Seite 14 - and already there were human inhabitants in those old pine forests. How many generations of each species of tree flourished in succession before the pine was supplanted by the oak, and the oak by the beech, can be but vaguely conjectured, but the minimum, of time required for the formation of so much peat must,
Seite 54 - have been detected various works of art implying a rude state of civilization, and some vessels built before the introduction of iron, and even the remains of an ancient hut, the whole .marine formation having been upraised, so that the upper beds are now sixty feet higher than the surface of the
Seite 467 - a law capable of adding new and powerful causes, such as the moral and intellectual faculties of the human race, to a system of nature which had gone on for millions of years without the intervention of any analogous cause. ) If we confound " Variation" or " Natural Selection
Seite 14 - history or even of tradition. In the time of the Romans the Danish Isles were covered, as now, with magnificent beech forests. Nowhere in the world docs this tree flourish more luxuriantly than in Denmark, and eighteen centuries seem to have done little or nothing towards modifying the character of the forest vegetation. Yet in
Seite 377 - The picture of transmutation given in these verses, however severe and contemptuous the strictures lavishly bestowed on it by Christian commentators, accords singularly with the train of thought which the modern doctrine of progressive development has encouraged. and lurking-places with their nails and fists, then with clubs, and at last with
Seite 56 - throughout an area about 1000 miles north and south, and for an unknown distance east and west, the amount of elevation always increasing as we proceed towards the North Cape, where it is said to equal five feet in a century. If we could assume that there had been an average rise of two and
Seite 326 - and other large rivers. They placed the barrier of this imaginary lake in the narrow and picturesque gorge of the Rhine between Bingen and Bonn: and when it was objected that the lateral valley of the Lahn, communicating with that gorge, had also been filled with loess, :they were compelled to transfer