Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... bottom of the ocean . a sounder and wiser school of geologists now reigns ; the father of whom , in England at least , is the venerable Sir Charles Lyell . He was almost the first of Englishmen who taught us to see - what common sense ...
... bottom of the ocean . a sounder and wiser school of geologists now reigns ; the father of whom , in England at least , is the venerable Sir Charles Lyell . He was almost the first of Englishmen who taught us to see - what common sense ...
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... bottom of the pond , where , lastly , I think common sense would tell you that the bottom of the pond was there already , before all the layers which were laid down on it . Is not that simple common sense ? Then apply that reasoning to ...
... bottom of the pond , where , lastly , I think common sense would tell you that the bottom of the pond was there already , before all the layers which were laid down on it . Is not that simple common sense ? Then apply that reasoning to ...
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... bottom rock quite different again , would you not say - The bottom rock must have been here before the rocks on the top of it ? And if that bottom rock rose up a few miles off , two thousand feet , or any other height , into hills ...
... bottom rock quite different again , would you not say - The bottom rock must have been here before the rocks on the top of it ? And if that bottom rock rose up a few miles off , two thousand feet , or any other height , into hills ...
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... bottom in the still water ; and say to yourself : Perhaps the sands which cover so many inland tracts were dropped by water , very near the shore of a lake or sea , and by rapid currents . Perhaps , again , the brick clays , which are ...
... bottom in the still water ; and say to yourself : Perhaps the sands which cover so many inland tracts were dropped by water , very near the shore of a lake or sea , and by rapid currents . Perhaps , again , the brick clays , which are ...
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... bottom clay of the district — what would common sense tell you ? I leave you to discover for yourselves . It certainly would not tell you that those trees were thrust in there by a violent con- vulsion , or that all those layers were ...
... bottom clay of the district — what would common sense tell you ? I leave you to discover for yourselves . It certainly would not tell you that those trees were thrust in there by a violent con- vulsion , or that all those layers were ...
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