The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man: With an Outline of Glacial and Post-tertiary Geology and Remarks on the Origin of Species, with Special Reference to Man's First Appearance on the EarthJ. Murray, 1873 - Всего страниц: 572 |
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The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man: With an Outline of Glacial ... Sir Charles Lyell Просмотр фрагмента - 1973 |
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Abbeville Acheul alluded alluvial alluvium Amiens ancient animals antiquity arctic Aurignac basin beds blocks Boucher de Perthes boulder-clay boulders British bronze cave caverns chalk channel CHAP clay cliffs climate coast containing Crag Cromer Cyrena deposits depth drift Elephas antiquus elevation embedded England erratics Europe extinct mammalia fauna feet thick flint implements flint tools fluviatile forest-bed formation formed fossil fragments France Geol geological geologists glacial period glaciers Glen Roy gravel Greenland height hippopotamus human bones human skeleton hyæna inches inhabited lake land Lartet layers Liége living species loam loess lower mammoth marine shells Menchecourt miles moraines mountains Mundesley Neanderthal observed occur origin Palæolithic peat pebbles Pleistocene pliocene present Prestwich Professor quadrupeds race region reindeer remains rhinoceros river rocks sand Schmerling Scotland seen skull Somme stalagmite stone period strata stratified submergence supposed surface terraces tertiary Thames valley
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Стр. 518 - Man is man only by means of speech ; but, in order to invent speech, he must be already man.
Стр. 151 - it is contrary to religion/ and lastly, ' that everybody knew it before.
Стр. 422 - ... so that the progress of a thousand years at a remote period may correspond to that of a century in modern times, and in ages still more remote Man would more and more resemble the brutes in that attribute which causes one generation exactly to imitate in all its ways the generation which preceded it.
Стр. 17 - In the first place, in going back to the bronze age, we already find ourselves beyond the reach of history or even of tradition. In the time of the Romans, the Danish Isles were covered, as now, with magnificent beech forests. Nowhere in the world does this tree flourish more luxuriantly than in Denmark, and eighteen centuries seem to have done little or nothing towards modifying the character of the forest vegetation.
Стр. 2 - Falconer, of the Brixham Cave, must, I think, have prepared you to admit that scepticism in regard to the cave-evidence in favour of the antiquity of man had previously been pushed to an extreme.
Стр. 531 - This argues strongly in favour of the existence in every animal of an immaterial principle similar to that which by its excellence and superior endowments places man so much above animals...
Стр. 537 - Most of the arguments of philosophy in favour of the immortality of man apply equally to the permanency of this principle in other living beings.
Стр. 76 - It may be objected that, according to the present rate of change, no lapse of ages would suffice to bring about such revolutions in physical geography as we are here contemplating. This may be true. It is more than probable that the rate of change was once far more active than it is now in the basin of the Meuse.
Стр. 71 - ... nearly as hard; to stand for hours with one's feet in the mud and with water dripping from the roof on one's head, in order to mark the position and guard against the loss of each single bone of a skeleton, and at length, after finding leisure, strength and courage for all these operations, to look forward, as the fruits of one's labour, to the publication of...
Стр. 7 - All the land and fresh-water shells, and all the mammalia as well as the plants, whose remains occur buried in the Danish peat, are of recent species. It has been stated that a stone implement was found under a buried Scotch fir at a great depth in the peat.