The Development of Creation on the EarthTrübner, 1874 - 109 Seiten |
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Seite 7 - But the slice of chalk presents a totally different appearance when placed under the microscope. The general mass of it is made up of very minute granules; but imbedded in this matrix are innumerable bodies, some smaller and some larger but, on a rough average, not more than a hundredth of an inch in diameter having a well-defined shape and structure.
Seite 31 - Almighty would have created one seed of grass, one acorn, one pair of locusts, of bees, of wild pigeons, of herrings, of buffaloes, as the only starting-point of these almost ubiquitous species? The instincts and habits of animals differ widely. Some are solitary, except at certain seasons; some go in pairs; others in herds or shoals. The idea of a pair of bees, locusts, herrings, buffaloes, is as contrary to the nature and habits of these creatures, as it is repugnant to the nature of oaks...
Seite 28 - When we look about us towards external objects, and consider the operation of causes, we are never able, in a single instance, to discover any power or necessary connexion ; any quality, which binds the effect to the cause, and renders the one an infallible consequence of the other.
Seite 101 - Germany; while from every mountain region in Europe great glaciers descended, sometimes for almost inconceivable distances, into the low countries beyond. Ere long this wonderful scene of arctic sterility passed away. Gradually the snow and ice melted and drew back to the mountains, and plants and animals appeared as the climate ameliorated. The mammoth and the woolly-coated rhinoceros roamed in our valleys ; the great bear haunted our caves ; and pine-trees grew in the South of England ; but the...
Seite 28 - Beast and fowl, reptile and fish, mollusk, worm, and polype, are all composed of structural units of the same character, namely, masses of protoplasm with a nucleus.
Seite 66 - Potanwyeton, which last indicates a fresh-water formation, accumulated on the spot. Such a vigorous growth of fossil trees, in a country within 12° of the pole, where there are now scarcely any shrubs except a dwarf willow and a few herbaceous and cryptogainous plants, most of the surface being covered with snow and ice, is truly remarkable.
Seite 61 - From the face of a cliff composed of strata of that period, at a geological depth of 800 feet, I have myself extracted a fragment of the joint of a bone of either a dinotherium or a mastodon, on the convex side of which is deeply incised the unmistakable figure of a horned quadruped, with arched neck, lozenge-shaped chest, long body, straight forelegs, and broad feet. There are also ! traces of seven or eight other figures, which, ! together with the hind quarters of the first, are nearly obliterated....
Seite 66 - ... dwarf willow and a few herbaceous and cryptogamous plants, most of the surface being covered with snow and ice, is truly remarkable. . . . We cannot hesitate to conclude that in Miocene times, when this vegetation flourished in Spitzbergen, North Greenland, and on the Mackenzie river, as well as Bank's Land, and other circumpolar countries, there was no snow in the arctic regions, except on the summit of high mountains, and even there perhaps not lasting throughout the year
Seite 104 - During this latest cold period of the glacial epoch, palaeolithic man, for aught that we can say, may have occupied the south of Europe ; but it is in the highest degree unlikely that he lived so far north as the unsubmerged portions of southern England. Another great change now ensued. Those mysterious forces by which the solid crust of the globe is elevated and depressed now again began to act — the sea gradually retreated, and our hills and valleys eventually reappeared. Step by step the British...
Seite 86 - ... feet, when, having found nothing, they abandoned the search, leaving the pit empty and the materials dug out of it lying in a heap near. Probably no part of the Cavern is in wet weather more exposed to drip than this ; hence it might have been expected that here, if anywhere, twenty-two years would have produced a film of stalagmite of appreciable thickness, especially as it was known that the Modern Floor attains an average thickness considerably surpassing that in any other part of the Cavern...