Town GeologyD. Appleton, 1873 - 239 páginas |
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... strange , to use the mildest word , that people whose destiny it is to live , even for a few short years , on this planet which we call the earth , and who do not at all intend to live on it as hermits , shutting them- PREFACE . XV.
... strange , to use the mildest word , that people whose destiny it is to live , even for a few short years , on this planet which we call the earth , and who do not at all intend to live on it as hermits , shutting them- PREFACE . XV.
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... strange , I say , that such people should in general be so careless about the consti- tution of this same planet , and of the laws and facts on which depend , not merely their comfort and their wealth , but their health and their very ...
... strange , I say , that such people should in general be so careless about the consti- tution of this same planet , and of the laws and facts on which depend , not merely their comfort and their wealth , but their health and their very ...
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... strange or novel , beautiful or awful , the discoveries we may make may be , we are only following the Word whithersoever He may lead us ; and that He can never lead us amiss . I THE SOIL OF THE FIELD . My dear readers lvi PREFACE .
... strange or novel , beautiful or awful , the discoveries we may make may be , we are only following the Word whithersoever He may lead us ; and that He can never lead us amiss . I THE SOIL OF THE FIELD . My dear readers lvi PREFACE .
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... strange an end , you would answer , " No , no ; I must reason from what I know . I know that birds haunt the cathe- dral tower ; I know that birds die ; and therefore , let your story be as pretty as it may , my common sense bids me ...
... strange an end , you would answer , " No , no ; I must reason from what I know . I know that birds haunt the cathe- dral tower ; I know that birds die ; and therefore , let your story be as pretty as it may , my common sense bids me ...
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... if he fell asleep upon the mound , for he would be spirited away into fairyland for seven years , which would seem to him but one day . A strange fancy : yet not so strange as the actual truth as to what 38 TOWN GEOLOGY .
... if he fell asleep upon the mound , for he would be spirited away into fairyland for seven years , which would seem to him but one day . A strange fancy : yet not so strange as the actual truth as to what 38 TOWN GEOLOGY .
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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 137 - 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 98 - ... simply watching the flowers along the railway banks and the sections in the cuttings: then it grieves me to see what little use people make of the eyes and of the understanding which God has given them. They complain of a dull journey: but it is not the journey which is dull; it is they who are dull. Eyes have they, and see not; ears have they, and hear not; mere dolls in smart clothes, too many of them, like the idols of the heathen.
Página xlvii - revealed in facts" — and then you will not fear physical science ; for you will be sure that, the more you know of physical science, the more you will know of the works and of the will of God. At least, you will be in harmony with the teaching of the Psalmist. " The heavens," says he, "declare the glory of God ; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.
Página xlviii - declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth His handiwork. There is neither speech nor language where their voices are not heard among them." So held the Psalmist concerning astronomy, the knowledge of the heavenly bodies; and what he says of sun and stars is true likewise of the flowers around our feet, of which the greatest Christian poet of modern times has said — To me the meanest (lower that grows may give Thoughts that do lie too deep for tears.
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, which on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun himself.
Página xxxi - play freely round" a question; and look it all over, boldly, patiently, rationally, charitably. And I tell you that if you, or I, or any man, want to let our thoughts play freely round questions, and so escape from the tendency to become bigoted and narrow-minded which there is in every human being, then we must acquire something of that inductive habit of mind which the study of Natural Science gives. It is, after all, as Professor Huxley says, only common sense well regulated. But then it is well...