The Two Records: The Mosaic and the Geological: A Lecture Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association, in Exeter Hall, LondonGould and Lincoln, 1854 - 46 Seiten |
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Seite 12 - ... and the animals and plants of the later extinct creations, there occurred no break or blank, but that, on the contrary, many of the existing organisms were contemporary, during the morning of their being, with many of the extinct ones during the evening of theirs. We know, further, that...
Seite 28 - In no other age did the world ever witness such a flora : the youth of the earth was peculiarly a green and umbrageous youth, — a youth of dusk and tangled forests, of huge pines and stately araucarians, of the reed-like calamite, the tall tree-fern, the sculptured sigillaria, and the hirsute lepidodendron.
Seite 28 - Island now spreads out its ice-wastes, under the star of the Pole, to where the arid plains of Australia lie solitary, beneath the bright cross of the south, a rank and luxuriant herbage cumbered every foot-breadth of the dank and steaming soil ; and even to distant planets our earth must have shone through the enveloping cloud with a green and delicate ray.
Seite 3 - By referring the origin of the globe to a higher antiquity than is assigned to it by the writings of Moses, it has been said that geology undermines our faith in the inspiration of the Bible, and in all the animating prospects of immortality which it unfolds. This is a false alarm. The writings of Moses do not fix the antiquity of the globe.
Seite 13 - ... of reconciliation which would separate between the recent and the extinct existences by a chaotic gulf of death and darkness, is a scheme which no longer meets the necessities of the case. Though perfectly adequate forty years ago, it has been greatly outgrown by the progress of geological discovery, and is, as I have said, adequate no longer ; and it becomes a not unimportant matter to determine the special scheme that would bring into completest harmony the course of creation, as now ascertained...
Seite 32 - Ceylon roamed in herds ; at least two species of rhinoceros forced their way through the primeval forest ; and the lakes and rivers were tenanted by hippopotami as bulky, and with as great tusks, as those of Africa.
Seite 29 - The geologic evidence is so complete as to be patent to all, that the first great period of organized being was, as described in the Mosaic record, peculiarly a period of herbs' and trees, ' yielding seed after their kind.
Seite 29 - The middle great period of the geologist — that of the Secondary division — possessed, like the earlier one, its herbs and plants, but they were of a greatly less luxuriant and conspicuous character than their predecessors, and no longer formed the prominent trait or feature of the creation to which they belonged. The period had also its corals, its crustaceans, its molluscs, its fishes, and, in some one or two exceptional instances, its dwarf mammals. But the grand existences of the age, the...
Seite 27 - But none of these classes give its leading character to the palaeozoic; they do not constitute its prominent feature, or render it more remarkable as a scene of life than any of the divisions which followed. That which chiefly distinguished the palaeozoic from the secondary and tertiary periods was its gorgeous flora.
Seite 6 - The writings of Moses do not fix the antiquity of the globe. If they fix anything at all it is only the antiquity of the species.