Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... the 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.
... the 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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Charles Kingsley. the relative age of rocks by the fossils found in them , which he can now , happily , study in many local museums ; and he may be certain , for the rest , that all rocks and soils whatsoever which he may meet have been ...
Charles Kingsley. the relative age of rocks by the fossils found in them , which he can now , happily , study in many local museums ; and he may be certain , for the rest , that all rocks and soils whatsoever which he may meet have been ...
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... age , in no country , as yet , have the majority of mankind been guided , I will not say by the love of God , and by the fear of God , but even by sense and reason . Not sense and reason , but nonsense and unreason , prejudice and fancy ...
... age , in no country , as yet , have the majority of mankind been guided , I will not say by the love of God , and by the fear of God , but even by sense and reason . Not sense and reason , but nonsense and unreason , prejudice and fancy ...
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... ages since , dropped , as it were , from the Bosom of God , the Eternal Fount of Life- the mere rind of this earth - fruit , I say , is so beautiful and so complex , that it is well worth our awful and reverent study . It has been well ...
... ages since , dropped , as it were , from the Bosom of God , the Eternal Fount of Life- the mere rind of this earth - fruit , I say , is so beautiful and so complex , that it is well worth our awful and reverent study . It has been well ...
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... ages which have seen enormous geological changes , is becoming more and more an open question . But meanwhile all must agree that there is matter enough for interest - nay , room enough for the free use of the imagination , in a science ...
... ages which have seen enormous geological changes , is becoming more and more an open question . But meanwhile all must agree that there is matter enough for interest - nay , room enough for the free use of the imagination , in a science ...
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