Town GeologyStrahan & Company, 1873 - 239 páginas |
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Página ix
... scientific man : nothing but patient observation , and quiet and fair thought over what he has observed . He must go out for himself , see for himself , compare and judge for himself , in the field , the quarry , the cut- ting . He must ...
... scientific man : nothing but patient observation , and quiet and fair thought over what he has observed . He must go out for himself , see for himself , compare and judge for himself , in the field , the quarry , the cut- ting . He must ...
Página x
... scientific authority , till he has either seen it , or something like enough to it to make it seem to him probable , or at least possible . So , and so only , will he become a scientific man , and a good geologist ; and acquire that ...
... scientific authority , till he has either seen it , or something like enough to it to make it seem to him probable , or at least possible . So , and so only , will he become a scientific man , and a good geologist ; and acquire that ...
Página xvii
... scientific man cannot repay himself by eating you ; and so never gets paid , in most cases , at all . But as for mankind thriving by common sense : they have not thriven by common sense , because they have not used their com- mon sense ...
... scientific man cannot repay himself by eating you ; and so never gets paid , in most cases , at all . But as for mankind thriving by common sense : they have not thriven by common sense , because they have not used their com- mon sense ...
Página xxviii
... scientific men , in studying science and acquiring the scien- tific habit of mind , you will find yourselves enjoying a freedom , an equality , a brother- hood , such as you will not find elsewhere just now . Freedom : what do we want ...
... scientific men , in studying science and acquiring the scien- tific habit of mind , you will find yourselves enjoying a freedom , an equality , a brother- hood , such as you will not find elsewhere just now . Freedom : what do we want ...
Página xxxiv
... scientific books than a duke or a prince could sixty years ago , simply because then the books did not exist . When I was a boy I would have given much , or rather my father would have given much , if I could have got hold of such ...
... scientific books than a duke or a prince could sixty years ago , simply because then the books did not exist . When I was a boy I would have given much , or rather my father would have given much , if I could have got hold of such ...
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age of ice ancient animals ashes beautiful beds believe beneath the sea bottom boulder-clay boulders Cambrian carbonic acid chalk Cheshire clay coal common sense coral deposited dry land earth earthquakes England explain fact fancy feet thick forest formed fossils geologists geology glacier Greensand habit of mind heat hundred feet islands Keuper known laid lava layers least lignite lime limestone live London clay look lowlands marl miles millstone grit mortar Natural Science Old Red sandstone once Oolites pebbles perhaps plants probably proof quarry rain readers red marl Red sandstone reef rivers rocks round sand scientific Scotland sea-bottom seen shells Silurian sinking Sir Henry Holland slate Snowdon Snowdonia soil Stigmaria stones strange strata sunk suppose surely surface tell theory things thousand feet trees tropic true trust upheaved vast vegetable volcanic Wales whole
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Página xix - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Página 59 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Página 138 - I think, be solved, by attending to what is now taking place in deltas. The dense growth of reeds and herbage which encompasses the margins of forest-covered swamps in the valley and delta of the Mississippi is such that the fluviatile waters, in passing through them, are filtered and made to clear themselves entirely before they reach the areas in which vegetable matter may accumulate for centuries, forming coal if the climate be favourable. There is no possibility of the least intermixture of earthy...
Página liii - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Página xlviii - I judge it as certain and clear a truth as can any where be delivered, that "the invisible things of God are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead.
Página xxxi - We must acquire something of that .industrious habit of mind which the study of Natural Science gives. The art of seeing, the art of knowing what you see, the art of comparing, of perceiving true likenesses and true differences, and so of classifying and arranging what you see, the art of connecting facts together in your own mind in chains of cause and effect, and that accurately, patiently, calmly, without prejudice, vanity, or temper.
Referencias a este libro
Handbook of Geology in Civil Engineering Robert Ferguson Legget,Paul Frederick Karrow Vista de fragmentos - 1983 |