| 1897 - 490 páginas
...minor features.' • In a second paper, read to the Royal Society, March 1862, the same author says : ' That we must greatly extend our present chronology...convinced, in the present state of the inquiry, unsafe and premature. Nevertheless, just as, though ignorant of the precise height and size of a mountain range... | |
| Henry Woodward - 1865 - 676 páginas
...are yet in a position to measure that time, or even to make an approximate estimate respecting it. That we must greatly extend our present chronology...years is, I am convinced, in the present state of the enquiry unsafe and premature. Nevertheless, just as though ignorant of the precise height and size... | |
| An Essex rector - 1865 - 302 páginas
...are yet in a position to measure that time, or even to make an approximate estimate respecting it. That we must greatly extend our present chronology...count by hundreds of thousands of years, is, I am con1 " Mountains," Forbes. vinced, in the present state of the inquiry, unsafe and premature. " Nevertheless,... | |
| 1865 - 842 páginas
...inhabitant on this earth, Sir C. Lyell demands a period of many thousand years. Mr. Prestwich says, " That we must greatly extend our present chronology...to the first existence of man, appears inevitable." In other words, the narrative given by Moses, and quoted by the Evangelist Luke, must be set aside... | |
| Edward Burnett Tylor - 1870 - 408 páginas
...the view that the now undoubted contemporaneity of man with the mammoth, the Rhinoceros tichorhinus, etc., is rather to be accounted for by considering...convinced, in the present state of the inquiry, unsafe and premature." l A set of characteristic drift implements3 would consist of certain tapering instruments... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1870 - 526 páginas
...minor features.' * In a second paper, read to the Royal Society, March 1862, the same author says : ' That we must greatly extend our present chronology...convinced, in the present state of the inquiry, unsafe and premature. Nevertheless, just as, though ignorant of the precise height and size of a mountain range... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 272 páginas
...minor features.' * In a second paper, read to the Royal Society, March 1862, the same author says : ' That we must greatly extend our present chronology...convinced, in the present state of the inquiry, unsafe and premature. Nevertheless, just as, though ignorant of the precise height and size of a mountain range... | |
| Alfred Wilks Drayson - 1873 - 410 páginas
...are yet in a position to measure that time, or even to make an approximate estimate respecting it. That we must greatly extend our present chronology...convinced, in the present state of the inquiry, unsafe and premature.' Even the estimation of time formed from an investigation of the growth of coral reefs must... | |
| Alfred Wilks Drayson - 1873 - 308 páginas
...are yet in a position to measure that time, or even to make an approximate estimate respecting it. That we must greatly extend our present chronology...convinced, in the present state of the inquiry, unsafe and premature.' Even the estimation of time formed from an investigation of the growth of coral reefs must... | |
| Edward Burnett Tylor - 1878 - 424 páginas
...the view that the now undoubted contemporaneity of man with the mammoth, the Rhinoceros tichorhinus, etc., is rather to be accounted for by considering...unsafe and premature."1 A set of characteristic drift implements3 would consist of certain tapering instruments like huge lance-heads, shaped, edged, and... | |
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