The Story of the Earth and ManHarper & Brothers, 1873 - 403 Seiten |
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abundant algæ allied America ancient appear areas beds Cambrian carbon Carboniferous changes clay club-mosses coal formation Coal period constitute continental plateaus continents corals creation creatures Cretaceous crinoids crustaceans curious cycads deposits Devonian distinct earth earth's crust elevation Eocene Eozoic Eozoon Europe Eurypterids evolution evolutionist existence fact fauna feet fishes flora Foraminifera forests forms fossil further geological geologists gigantic Glacial graptolites hemisphere higher Ichthyosaur known land Laurentian less lime limestone Lingulæ living Lower Silurian mammals marine material matter Mesozoic Miocene modern seas mollusks nature Nautili northern hemisphere nucleus observed occur ocean oldest organic Paleozoic perhaps Permian physical pines Pliocene Post-glacial Post-pliocene present Primordial probably remains represented reptiles resemblance rocks sand sandstones sediments shales shallow shells Sigillaria similar species stem stones structure subsidence succeeding supposed surface Tertiary thick tion tree-ferns trees Trilobites Upper Silurian vegetable volcanic
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 257 - We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.
Seite 297 - And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every, tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Seite 297 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was parted and became into four heads.
Seite 2 - The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth...
Seite 297 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength ; and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Seite 252 - If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years ; there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.
Seite 297 - So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
Seite 297 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life; That I, considering everywhere Her secret meaning in her deeds, And...
Seite 260 - But do they really believe that at innumerable periods in the earth's history certain elemental atoms have been commanded suddenly to flash into living tissues? Do they believe that at each supposed act of creation one individual or many were produced? Were all the infinitely numerous kinds of animals and plants created as eggs or seed or as full grown?
Seite 235 - I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him ; for the hour of his judgment is come : and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.