 | Benjamin Godwin - 1834 - 314 pages
...species, for it is not controverted by any geologist; indeed, the real difficulty which we experience, consists in tracing back the signs of man's existence...species, now his contemporaries, began to predominate."* * Lyell's Principles of Geology.— Vol. I, p. 176, 2nd. ed. Anticipating an objection that man may... | |
 | 1836 - 534 pages
...from laws now in daily operation. The most able and strenuous advocate of this doctrine asserts, that the real difficulty consists in tracing back the signs of man's existence upon the earth to that comparatively modern period when species, his contemporaries, began to predominate.... | |
 | William Scott - 1837 - 422 pages
...Cuvier, and all former geologists. He says, " I need not dwell on the proofs of the low antiquity of our species, for it is not controverted by any experienced...difference of opinion respecting the occurrence in certain deposits of the remains of man and his works, it is always in reference to strata confessedly... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1840 - 506 pages
...the uniformity of the course of nature. I need not dwell on the proofs of the low antiquity of our species, for it is not controverted by any experienced...period when species, now his contemporaries, began greatly to predominate. If there be a difference of opinion respecting the occurrence in certain deposits... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1840 - 486 pages
...on the earth to that comparatively modern period when species, now his contemporaries, began greatly to predominate. If there be a difference of opinion respecting the occurrence in certain deposits of the remains of man and his works, it is always in reference to strata confessedly... | |
 | Joshua Trimmer - 1841 - 558 pages
...from laws now in daily operation. The most able and strenuous advocate of this doctrine asserts, that the real difficulty consists in tracing back the signs of man's existence upon the earth to that comparatively modern period when species, his contemporaries, began to predominate.... | |
 | Joshua Trimmer - 1841 - 564 pages
...from laws now in daily operation. The most able and strenuous advocate of this doctrine asserts, that the real difficulty consists in tracing back the signs of man's existence upon the earth to that comparatively modern period when species, his contemporaries, began to predominate.... | |
 | James Smith - 1843 - 728 pages
...species, for it is not controverted by any geologist; indeed, the real difficulty which we experience consists in tracing back the signs of man's existence on the earth to that comparatively modem period when species, now his contemporaries, began to predominate. If there be a difference of... | |
 | Arthur James Johnes - 1843 - 350 pages
...geological authorities. " I need not dwell," he observes, " on the proofs of the " low antiquity of our species, for it is not controverted by " any experienced geologist; indeed the real difficulty con" sists in tracing back the signs of man's existence on the " earth to that comparatively modern... | |
 | Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - 1847 - 444 pages
...profound living expositor of this science. " I need not dwell on the proofs of the low antiquity of our species, for it is not controverted by any experienced...period when species, now his contemporaries, began greatly to predominate."i9 !9Lyell, Principles of Geology,!. 249, 282. It is worthy of notice how completely... | |
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on the proofs of the low antiquity of our species, for it is not controverted by any experienced geologist; indeed, the real difficulty consists in tracing back the signs of man's existence on the earth to that comparatively modern period when species,... 
