...10 The Last Years (1925-1927): There Is An Old Saying That All Good Things Must Come to an End «T We felt ourselves necessarily carried back to the...schistus on which we stood was yet at the bottom of the seas, and when the sandstone before us was only beginning to be deposited, in the shape of sand or...

...the impression will not easily be forgotten . . . We often said to ourselves, What clearer evidence could we have had of the different formation of these...formation, had we actually seen them emerging from the bottom of the deep? ... The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time; and...

...directly authenticated by the testimony of the senses. We often said to ourselves, What clearer evidence could we have had of the different formation of these...separated their formation, had we actually seen them emergingfrom the bosom of the deep? We felt ourselves necessarily carried back to the time when the...

...made will not be easily forgotten What clearer evidence could we have had of the different formations of these rocks, and of the long interval which separated their formation Revolutions still more remote appeared in the distance of this extraordinary perspective. The mind...

...made. 'What clearer evidence could we have had of the different formation of these rocks', he wrote, 'and of the long interval which separated their formation,...actually seen them emerging from the bosom of the deep?' Thinking over this sequence of events made it plain what a vast length of time must have been involved....

...by the spectacle before them. " We often said to ourselves," he continues, " What clearer evidence could we have had of the different formation of these...formation, had we actually seen them emerging from the bottom of the deep ? We felt ourselves necessarily carried back to the time when the schistus on which...