 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1840 - 506 pages
...at liberty to indulge their imaginations in guessing at what might be, rather than in inquiring what is; in other words, they employed themselves in conjecturing...credibility appeared enhanced by the great contrast, in kind or intensity, of the causes referred to and those now in operation. Never was there a dogma... | |
 | Mineral industries - 1853 - 690 pages
...themselves at liberty to indulge their imaginations in guessing at what might be, rather than inquiring what is ; in other words, they employed themselves in conjecturing...; and having invented theories under the influence öf such maxims, they were consistently unwilling to test theii validity by the criterion of their... | |
 | 1853 - 688 pages
...remote period, rather than in the investigation of what was the course of nature in their own t ¡mes. " It appeared to them more philosophical to speculate...such maxims, they were consistently unwilling to test theit validity by the criterion of their accordance with the ordinai'}' operations of nature. On the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1865 - 880 pages
...remote period, rather than in the investigation of what was the course of nature in their own tames. It appeared to them more philosophical to speculate...credibility appeared enhanced by the great contrast, in kind or intensity, of the causes referred to, and those now in operation. Never was there a dogma... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1867 - 746 pages
...than in the investigation of what was the course of Nature in their own times. It appeared to them far more philosophical to speculate on the possibilities...credibility appeared enhanced by the great contrast, in kind or intensity, of the causes referred to and those now in operation. Never was there a dogma... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1872 - 714 pages
...than in the investigation of what was the course of Nature in their own times. It appeared to them far more philosophical to speculate on the possibilities...credibility appeared enhanced by the great contrast, in kind or intensity, of the causes referred to and those now in operation. Never was there a dogma... | |
 | John Evans - Geology - 1876 - 94 pages
...work, as a whole, was dealt the most telling blow that had ever fallen on those to whom it appeared " more philosophical to speculate on the possibilities...patiently to explore the realities of the present," while the earnest and careful endeavour to reconcile the former indications of change with the evidence... | |
 | Charles Gould - Animals, Mythical - 1886 - 430 pages
...iii.), as a whole, was dealt the most telling blow that had ever fallen upon those to whom it appears ' more philosophical to speculate on the possibilities...patiently to explore the realities of the present,' while the earnest and careful endeavour to reconcile the former indications of change with the evidence... | |
 | Astronomy - 1902 - 230 pages
...conjecturing what might have been the course of Nature in their own times. 133 It appeared to them far more philosophical to speculate on the possibilities...credibility appeared enhanced by the great contrast, in kind or intensity, of the causes referred to and those now in operation. Never was there a dogma... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 494 pages
...than in the investigation of what was the course of Nature in their own times. It appeared to them far more philosophical to speculate on the possibilities...credibility appeared enhanced by the great contrast, in kind or intensity, of the causes referred to and those now in operation. Never was there a dogma... | |
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It appeared to them more philosophical to speculate on the possibilities of the past, than patiently to explore the realities of the present ; and having invented theories under the influence of such maxims, they were consistently unwilling to test their... 
