Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they present:- so various yet so uniform-so vast yet so connected. In thus tracing back to the most remote periods in the physical history of our continents, one system of operations, as the means by which many complex formations have been successively produced, the mind becomes impressed with the singleness of nature's laws; and in this respect, at least, geology is hardly inferior in simplicity to astronomy.
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from… - Roderick Murchison
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from…
- Roderick Murchison
During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one condition to another, whole ra… - Roderick Murchison
During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one condition to another, whole ra…
We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations. - Roderick Murchison
We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they present:-… - Roderick Murchison
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they present:-…
Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins. - Roderick Murchison
Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins.
The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in the hands… - Roderick Murchison
The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in the hands…
Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences, wh… - Roderick Murchison
Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences, wh…
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