The Story of the Earth and ManHarper, 1887 - 411 Seiten |
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abundant allied America animals and plants apes appear areas beds Belemnites bones boulder clay Cambrian Carboniferous cave chalk changes clay climate club-mosses coal formation coal period continental continents corals creation creatures Cretaceous crinoids crust crustaceans curious deposits Devonian distinct earth elevation Eocene Eozoic Eozoon Europe Eurypterids evolution evolutionist existence fact fauna feet fishes flora Foraminifera forests forms fossil further geological geologists gigantic glaciers graptolites higher Ichthyosaur known land Laurentian limestone living Lower Silurian mammals marine matter Mesozoic Miocene mollusks nature Northern Hemisphere numerous occur ocean older oldest organic origin Paleozoic perhaps Permian physical pines plateaus Plesiosaurs Pliocene Post-glacial Post-pliocene present Primordial probably remains remarkable represented reptiles resemblance rocks sand sandstones sediments shales shallow shells Sigillaria Silurian similar species stones structure submerged subsidence succeeding supposed surface Tertiary thick tion trees Trilobites Upper Silurian vegetable
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 337 - 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.
Seite 379 - 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 387 - 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.
Seite 12 - Into one place, and let dry land appear. Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky. So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep, Capacious bed of waters...
Seite 332 - 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.