Footprints of the Creator: Or the Asterolepis of StromnessW.P. Nimmo, 1872 - 352 páginas |
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Agassiz ages ancient ganoids animal appear Asterolepis bearing beds belonged bone brain Caithness cartilaginous Celacanth centre Cephalaspis cerebral character Coccosteus coprolites cranial buckler cranium creation creatures Cuvier degradation deposits dermal detected development hypothesis Diplopterus Dipterus division dog-fish dynasty evidence exhibited existence fact fins flora Foot-prints fossil fucoids furnished ganoids genera genus geological geologist head higher Holoptychius Hugh Miller human hyoid plate ichthyic ichthyolites least lignite limbs Limestone mammals Miller miracle molluscs nature occipital occur Oken Old Red Sandstone organization original osseous fishes Osteolepis Paleozoic peculiar period plants portion present principle Pteraspis Pterichthys quadruped rays reader regarding remarkable represented reptile reptile teeth resemblance rocks Roderick Murchison says scale seems shagreen sharks side Silurian Sir Roderick skeleton skull species specimen spinal spines surface tail theory Thurso tion tubercles vegetation vertebral vertebral column vertebrata Vestiges
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Página 299 - New heavens, new earth, ages of endless date Founded in righteousness, and peace, and love, To bring forth fruits, joy and eternal bliss.
Página xxxii - His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral...
Página 283 - Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees...
Página lxi - If it could be proved that any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection.
Página xi - ... the portion of my life which had already gone by had been happy beyond the common lot. I had been a wanderer among rocks and woods, a reader of curious books when I could get them, a gleaner of old traditionary stories ; and now I was going to exchange all my day-dreams, and all my amusements, for the kind of life in which men toil every day that they may be enabled to eat, and eat every day that they may be enabled to toil...
Página 231 - Nor wears a rosy blush, nor sheds perfume ; . The few dull flowers that o'er the place are spread Partake the nature of their fenny bed; Here on its wiry stem, in rigid bloom, Grows the salt lavender that lacks perfume; Here the dwarf sallows creep, the septfoil harsh, And the soft slimy mallow of the marsh; Low on the ear the distant billows sound, And just in view appears their stony bound ; No hedge nor tree conceals the glowing sun, Birds, save a wat'ry tribe, the district shun, Nor chirp among...
Página 283 - ... so thick the aery crowd swarmed and were straitened ; till, the signal given, behold a wonder ! they but now who seemed in bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, now less than smallest dwarfs in narrow room throng numberless...
Página 330 - But this connection is not the consequence of a direct lineage between the faunas of different ages. There is nothing like parental descent connecting them. The fishes of the Palaeozoic age are in no respect the ancestors of the reptiles of the secondary age, nor does man descend from the mammals which preceded him in the tertiary age. The link by which they are connected is of a higher and immaterial nature ; and their...
Página 287 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all "That system only, but the whole must fall.
Página 20 - No organism is, nor ever has one been created, which is not microscopic. Whatever is larger has not been created, but developed.