Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming
This book is not written especially for geologists or other scientists as such, though it deals with the question which it discusses from a purely scientific standpoint, and presupposes a good general knowledge of the rocks and of current theories. It is addressed rather to th...
In the First Part of this book I tried to examine into the facts and methods which are commonly supposed to prove that there has been a succession of life on the globe. We found...
12. CHAPTER IX"The crust of our globe," writes a distinguished scientist, "is a great cemetery, where the rocks are tombstones on which the buried dead have written their own epitaphs." The r...
11. CHAPTER VIIIAs preliminary to the subject here to be presented, we must bear in mind that the present arrangement of the fossils in alleged chronological order, as well as the naming of tho...
10. CHAPTER VIILet us now test the value of this assumed life succession by another very simple question. In "Eocene times," so we are told, England was a land of palms, with a semi-tropical f...
15. CHAPTER XII=Man himself, to say nothing of numerous living animals and plants, must have witnessed something of the nature of a cosmic convulsion--how much it is the object of our search t...
5. CHAPTER IIAmong the few stray principles that the future will probably be able to save from the wreck of Spencer's philosophy, is the advisability of looking into =the genealogy of an ide...
13. CHAPTER X=All of the fossils= (save a very few of the so-called "Glacial Age," and they admit of other easy explanation) =give us proofs of an almost eternal spring having prevailed in t...
6. CHAPTER III(1) That over all the earth the fossils =must always occur= in the particular order in which they were found to occur in a few corners of Western Europe; and also--
8. CHAPTER VHow many of us have ever seen a mountain fall? Not very many. And yet events even more wonderful than this have frequently occurred in the past, as we are confidently assured by...
14. CHAPTER XI=The fossils, regarded as a whole, invariably supply us with types larger of their kind and better developed in every way than their nearest modern representatives, whether of p...
4. CHAPTER IHow many of us have ever tried to think out a statement of just how we would prove that there has been a succession of life on the globe in a particular order?
7. CHAPTER IVIf we had ample evidence that a certain man was personally acquainted with Julius Caesar, that they were born in the same town, went to school together, served in the same wars,...
9. CHAPTER VIThere is only one class of agents now working upon the rocks of the globe which have been in business continuously ever since the dry land appeared, and which have left us a leg...
3. PART IIDarwinism, as a part, the chief part, of the general Evolution Theory, rests logically and historically on the succession of life idea as taught by geology. If there has actuall...
1. PART IThis book is not written especially for geologists or other scientists as such, though it deals with the question which it discusses from a purely scientific standpoint, and pre...
17. CHAPTER XIII INDUCTIVE METHODS2. PART II THE ABSTRACT IDEA 11 II HISTORY OF THE IDEA 14 III FACT NUMBER ONE 20 IV FACT NUMBER TWO 24 V TURNED UPSIDE DOWN 27 V FACT NUMBER FOUR 31 VII EXTINCT SPECIES 34 VIII SKIPPING 42