 | Industrial arts - 1852 - 446 pages
...is our business, as geologists, to investigate. After sixty years of renewed inquiry, and after wo have greatly enlarged the sphere of our knowledge,...and moral nature, are the highest works of creative poVer known to us in the universe ; and to have traced out the date of their commencement in past time,... | |
 | Geological Society of London - Electronic journals - 1851 - 690 pages
...species have died out, while others may be coeval in their origin with man, and a few perhaps are of more recent creation. Man himself has been multiplying...the evidence has become more and more decisive in favour of the recent origin of our own species. The intellect of man and his spiritual and moral nature... | |
 | Science - 1851 - 450 pages
...interpret the records of creation which are written on the framework of the globe. Huttonian Theory. In the first publication of the Huttonian theory,...the evidence has become more and more decisive in favour of the recent origin of our own species. The intellect of man and his spiritual and moral nature... | |
 | Geology - 1851 - 438 pages
...interpret the records of creation which are written on the framework of the globe. Huttonian Theory. In the first publication of the Huttonian theory,...the evidence has become more and more decisive in favour of the recent origin of our own species. The intellect of man and his spiritual and moral nature... | |
 | Geological Society of London - Electronic journals - 1851 - 678 pages
...phenomena which it is our business as geologists to inmtigatr. ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. IxXV After sixty years of renewed inquiry, and after we...the evidence has become more and more decisive in favour of the recent origin of our own species. The intellect of man and his spiritual and moral nature... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - Bible - 1860 - 466 pages
...appointed by the Author of nature, is a point upon which I will not venture to offer a conjecture. " In the first publication of the Huttonian theory,...the evidence has become more and more decisive in favour of the recent origin of our own species. The intellect of man and his spiritual and moral nature... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - Bible - 1860 - 436 pages
...appointed by the Author of nature, is a point upon which I will not venture to offer a conjecture. " la the first publication of the Huttonian theory, it...the evidence has become more and more decisive in favour of the recent origin of our own species. The intellect of man and his spiritual and moral nature... | |
 | Geologists' Association - Geology - 1889 - 596 pages
...beginning, no prospect of an end."} And Lyell, addressing the Geological Society in 1851, could say that, "after sixty years of renewed inquiry, and after we...the same conclusion seems to me to hold true."§ But » • Geology,' by Joseph Prpstwich, MA, FB8., Vol. i, 1886, Preface, p. vi. •J ' Quart. Journ.... | |
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In the first publication of the Huttonian theory, it was declared that we can neither see the beginning nor the end of that vast series of phenomena which it is our business as geologists to investigate. After sixty years of renewed inquiry, and after... 