The Wilderness of Worlds: A Popular Sketch of the Evolution of Matter from Nebula to Man and Return : the Life-orbit of a StarP. Eckler, 1898 - 246 páginas |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Wilderness of Worlds: A Popular Sketch of the Evolution of Matter From ... George Wilkinson Morehouse Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
The Wilderness of Worlds: A Popular Sketch of the Evolution of Matter From ... George Wilkinson Morehouse Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Términos y frases comunes
61 Cygni action ancient animals and plants atoms become believed bodies bones brain branches caused cells changes chemical Christian cloth color comet continue crust crystals desmids diameter diatoms distance early Earth energy Eozoon Canadense evidence evolution existence extinct fact feet flint force geological geological periods heat heavens higher human Ingersoll Jupiter known less light living mass matter ment mental meteoric meteorites microscope miles molecules Moon motion Mound Builders mounds natural selection nebula nebular hypothesis object observations orbit organisms Origin of Species ovum Paine's Paper particles pass period planet Pliocene present primitive probably Protoplasm race Radiolaria reached reason religion revolve rocks rotation satellites Science seen solar system solid space special creation species stars stones substance surface tail telescope temples theory thousands tion trees truth Universe vapor vegetable Venus visible vols
Pasajes populares
Página 7 - They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think : They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
Página 128 - To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual. When I view all beings not as special creations but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.
Página 224 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.
Página 122 - As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever-branching and beautiful ramifications.
Página 27 - Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts.
Página 128 - What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern, and should include similar bones, in the same relative positions...
Página 128 - ... the immutability of species, may be influenced by this volume; but I look with confidence to the future, to young and rising naturalists, who will be able to view both sides of the question with impartiality. Whoever is led to believe that species are mutable will do good service by conscientiously expressing his conviction; for only thus can the load of prejudice by which this subject is overwhelmed be removed.
Página 179 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.