The Story of the Earth and ManHadder & Stoughton, 1873 - 403 pages |
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abundant allied animals and plants appear areas beds Belemnites bones boulder boulder clay Cambrian Carboniferous cave chalk changes clay climate club-mosses coal formation coal period continents corals creation creatures Cretaceous crinoids crust crustaceans curious deposits Devonian distinct earth elevation Eocene Eozoic Eozoon Europe Eurypterids evolution evolutionist existence extinct fact fauna feet fishes flora Foraminifera forests forms fossil further geological geologists gigantic glaciers graptolites gravels higher hippopotamus Ichthyosaur known land Laurentian limestone Lingulæ living Lower Silurian Machairodus mammals marine matter Mesozoic Miocene mollusks nature northern hemisphere observed occur ocean older oldest organic Palæozoic perhaps Permian pines Plesiosaurs Pliocene Post-glacial Post-pliocene present Primordial probably remains remarkable represented reptiles resemblance rocks sand sandstones sediments shales shallow shells Silurian similar species stones structure submerged subsidence succeeding supposed surface Tertiary thick tion trees Trilobites Upper Silurian vast vegetable
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Page 325 - 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.
Page 367 - 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.
Page 367 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was parted and became into four heads.
Page 16 - 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...
Page 375 - 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.
Page 320 - 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.
Page 133 - Nature is never in a hurry, and seems to have had always before her eyes the adage, " Keep a thing long enough, and you will find a use for it.
Page 367 - 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.
Page 326 - In the dim obscurity of the past we can see that the early progenitor of all the Vertebrata must have been an aquatic animal, provided with branchia;, with the two sexes united in the same individual, and with the most important organs of the body (such as the brain and heart) imperfectly developed.
Page 328 - 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?