Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, Volumen2Victoria Institute., 1867 |
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... given coast at a certain time . Simple reference to the changes daily going on would at once show that such a method could only be adopted for a short period , within comparatively nar- row limits , as the rate of rising and sinking is ...
... given coast at a certain time . Simple reference to the changes daily going on would at once show that such a method could only be adopted for a short period , within comparatively nar- row limits , as the rate of rising and sinking is ...
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for computing the age of any given land or formation can be obtained from upheavals . I need not refer to the slow upheavals along the coast of Greenland , Norway , and Sweden , as they are neither uniform nor continuous in their ...
for computing the age of any given land or formation can be obtained from upheavals . I need not refer to the slow upheavals along the coast of Greenland , Norway , and Sweden , as they are neither uniform nor continuous in their ...
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... given place now , and that which it occupied a few centuries ago . Humboldt very justly remarked that the latitudes of even the European observatories in the last century were not correct within twenty minutes of a degree . If this was ...
... given place now , and that which it occupied a few centuries ago . Humboldt very justly remarked that the latitudes of even the European observatories in the last century were not correct within twenty minutes of a degree . If this was ...
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latitude of any given place with exactitude is by reference to the fixed stars , as it is impossible to make terrestrial measure- ments from the poles . Even in taking the stars as the fixed points to determine the latitude at any given ...
latitude of any given place with exactitude is by reference to the fixed stars , as it is impossible to make terrestrial measure- ments from the poles . Even in taking the stars as the fixed points to determine the latitude at any given ...
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... given land . About 3,150 years ago , the site on which Greenwich Observatory stands was about 20 ° 28 ′ 30 ′′ S. of the parallel of y Ursa Majoris , and therefore in latitude 35 ° N . , when the Portland organic remains might have ...
... given land . About 3,150 years ago , the site on which Greenwich Observatory stands was about 20 ° 28 ′ 30 ′′ S. of the parallel of y Ursa Majoris , and therefore in latitude 35 ° N . , when the Portland organic remains might have ...
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Página 69 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.18 Darwin always knew that his views would be controversial. A few days before The Origin of Species appeared, Darwin wrote, in a letter to Wallace, 'God knows what...
Página 293 - And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck : And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had ; and they cried before him, Bow the knee : and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Página 119 - ... pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends; and that all desirable things (which are as numerous in the utilitarian as in any other scheme) are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
Página 207 - Our observation employed either, about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.
Página 108 - It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity; but who objects to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets? Everyone knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity.
Página 84 - If we must compare the eye to an optical instrument, we ought in imagination to take a thick layer of transparent tissue, with spaces filled with fluid, and with a nerve sensitive to light beneath, and then suppose every part of this layer to be continually changing slowly in density, so as to separate into layers of different densities and thicknesses, placed at different distances from each other, and with the surfaces of each layer slowly changing in form. Further, we must suppose that there is...
Página 139 - Subduct from any phenomenon such part as is known by previous inductions to be the effect of certain antecedents, and the residue of the phenomenon is the effect of the remaining antecedents.
Página 174 - The question of questions for mankind — the problem which underlies all others, and is more deeply interesting than any other — is the ascertainment of the place which Man occupies in nature and of his relations to the universe of things.
Página 108 - It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving, and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.
Página 125 - If we now suppose this feeling of unity to be taught as a religion, and the whole force of education, of institutions, and of opinion, directed, as it once was in the case of religion, to make every person grow up from infancy surrounded on all sides...