Geology: Its Influence on Modern Beliefs; Being a Popular Sketch of Its Scientific Teachings and Economic BearingsW. Blackwood and sons, 1876 - 60 pàgines |
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Pàgina 12 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Pàgina 27 - ... (Carpenter.) We see clearly that there has been a succession from invertebrate to vertebrate; then, in the vertebrate, from the fish to the reptile, from the reptile to the bird and mammal; in the mammal, finally to man. That there has also been an advance in each stirps or series of animals, is abundantly evident. In connexion with advance of grade, there appears to have been a progression from general to special characters.