Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... volcanic rocks which have disturbed them , are often very different in appearance to the English coal measures . But he will soon learn to distinguish the relative age of rocks by the fossils found in B 2 TOWN GEOLOGY-PREFACE.
... volcanic rocks which have disturbed them , are often very different in appearance to the English coal measures . But he will soon learn to distinguish the relative age of rocks by the fossils found in B 2 TOWN GEOLOGY-PREFACE.
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... English church , I have a right to investigate Nature boldly without stint or stay , and to call on all who have the will , to investigate her boldly likewise , and with Socrates of old , to follow the Logos whitherso- ever it leads ...
... English church , I have a right to investigate Nature boldly without stint or stay , and to call on all who have the will , to investigate her boldly likewise , and with Socrates of old , to follow the Logos whitherso- ever it leads ...
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... English , because they are discovered by simple common sense . And thus geology is ( or ought to be ) , in popular parlance , the people's science — the science by studying which , the man ignorant of Latin , Greek , mathematics ...
... English , because they are discovered by simple common sense . And thus geology is ( or ought to be ) , in popular parlance , the people's science — the science by studying which , the man ignorant of Latin , Greek , mathematics ...
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... English students , geology has thriven and developed , perhaps more than any other science ; and has led men on to discoveries far more really astonishing and awful than all fancied convulsions and cataclysms . I have planned this ...
... English students , geology has thriven and developed , perhaps more than any other science ; and has led men on to discoveries far more really astonishing and awful than all fancied convulsions and cataclysms . I have planned this ...
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... English shores - under the sand hills , perhaps a bed of earth with shells and bones ; under that a bed of peat ; under that one of blue silt ; under that a buried forest , with the trees upright and rooted ; under that another layer of ...
... English shores - under the sand hills , perhaps a bed of earth with shells and bones ; under that a bed of peat ; under that one of blue silt ; under that a buried forest , with the trees upright and rooted ; under that another layer of ...
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