| Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 474 pages
...the highest degree to the candid reception of the evidence of those minute but incessant alterations which every part of the earth's surface is undergoing,...full scope to the fancy to indulge in a boundless The course directly opposed to these theoretical views consists in an earnest and patient endeavour... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 442 pages
...more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than this assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing...rank of an exact science, — the greater number of phe-. nomena must for ever remain inexplicable, or only be partially elucidated by ingenious conjectures.... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...highest degree to the candid reception of the evidence of those minute, but incessant, alterations which every part of the earth's surface is undergoing,...elucidated by ingenious conjectures. Even the mystery (1) This passage illustrates a remark made in a subsequent note, regarding the importance of style... | |
| Astronomy - 1902 - 230 pages
...presented to him in the earth's structure — instead of being prompted to undertake laborious enquiries into the natural history of the organic world, and...for ever remain inexplicable, or only be partially eluci134 dated by ingenious conjectures. Even the mystery which invested the subject was said to constitute... | |
| Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 494 pages
...the highest degree to the candid reception of the evidence of those minute but incessant alterations which every part of the earth's surface is undergoing,...exact science; the greater number of phenomena must forever remain inexplicable, or only be partially elucidated by ingenious conjectures. Even the mystery... | |
| Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 482 pages
...organic world, and the complicated effects of the igneous and aqueous causes now in operation—was taught to despond from the first. Geology, it was...exact science; the greater number of phenomena must forever remain inexplicable, or only be partially elucidated by ingenious conjectures. Even the mystery... | |
| Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier Dampier - Science - 1924 - 312 pages
...encouraged with the hope of interpreting the enigmas presented to him in the earth's structure,—instead of being prompted to undertake laborious inquiries...fancy to indulge in a boundless field of speculation. It appeared to them more philosophical to speculate on the possibilities of the past, than patiently... | |
| William S. Knickerbocker - Science - 1927 - 410 pages
...The student, instead of being encouraged with the hope of interpret224 CLASSICS OF MODERN SCIENCE ing the enigmas presented to him in the earth's structure...exact science ; the greater number of phenomena must forever remain inexplicable, or only be partially elucidated by ingenious conjectures. Even the mystery... | |
| Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 456 pages
...the highest degree to the candid reception of the evidence of those minute but incessant alterations which every part of the earth's surface is undergoing,...exact science ; the greater number of phenomena must forever remain inexplicable, or only be partially elucidated by ingenious conjectures. Even the mystery... | |
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