 | Richard Owen - 1859 - 120 pages
...mind that will not accept such conclusion, the stratified oolitic rocks must cease to be monuments or trustworthy records of the condition of life on the...retrospect as the prospect. And not only as respects the Vertebrata, but the sum of the animal species at each successive geological period has been distinct... | |
 | Richard Owen - 1859 - 118 pages
...mind that will not accept such conclusion, the stratified oolitic rocks must cease to be monuments or trustworthy records of the condition of life on the...retrospect as the prospect. And not only as respects the Vertebrata, but the sum of the animal species at each successive geological period has been distinct... | |
 | 1859 - 554 pages
...assigned work on this planet, there has, however, plainly been an ascent and progress in the main. So far, however, as any general conclusion can be...retrospect as the prospect. And not only as respects the vertebrata, but the sum of the animal species at each successive geological period has been distinct... | |
 | 1860 - 452 pages
...sum of evidence above referred to, and contrasted, it is against the doctrine of the Uniformitarians. Organic remains, traced from their earliest known...As well might we expect a living Ichthyosaur in the Pacifie, as a fossil whale in the Lias. The rule governs ns strongly in the retrospect as the prospect.... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1860 - 436 pages
...sum of evidence above referred to, and contrasted, it is against the doctrine of the Uniformitarians. Organic remains, traced from their earliest known...present period, and never re-appear when once lost sight 01 the ascending search. As well might we expect a living Ichthyosaur in the Pacifie, as a fossil whale... | |
 | 1860 - 448 pages
...Organic remains, traced from their earliest known graves, are succeeded, one scries by another, to tho present period, and never reappear when once lost sight of in the ascending search. As well mitiht we expect a living Ichthyosaur in the Pacific, as a fossil whale in the Lias. The rule governs... | |
 | 1867 - 448 pages
...snm of evidence above referred to, and contrasted, it is against the doctrine of the Uniformitarians. Organic remains, traced from their earliest known...retrospect as the prospect. And not only as respects the Vertébrala, but the sum of the animal species at each successive geological period has been distinct... | |
 | 1867 - 460 pages
...the doctrine of the Uniformitarians. Organic remains, traced from their earliest known graves, arc succeeded, one series by another, to the present period,...Lias. The rule governs as strongly in the retrospect aa the prospect. And not only as respects the Vcrtebrata, but the sum of tho animal species at each... | |
 | 1860 - 448 pages
...sum of evidence above referred to, and contrasted, it is against the doctrine of the Uniformitarians. Organic remains, traced from their earliest known...Pacific, as a fossil whale in the Lias. The rule governs ns strongly in the retrospect as the prospect. And not only as respects the Arertebrata, but the sum... | |
 | Samuel Wilberforce - 1874 - 412 pages
...records of the condition of life on the earth at that period.' And he thus sums up the argument : — ' So far, however, as any general conclusion can be...retrospect as the prospect. And not only as respects the vertebrata, but the sum of the animal species at each successive geological period has been distinct... | |
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Organic remains, traced from their earliest known graves, are succeeded, one series by another, to the present period, and never re-appear when once lost sight of in the ascending search. As well might we expect a living Ichthyosaur in the Pacific, as... 
