| James Richard Moore - 2002 - Страниц: 456
...Charles Lyell's grand work on the Principles of Geology', wrote Charles Darwin in the Origin of Species, 'yet does not admit how incomprehensibly vast have...been the past periods of time, may at once close this volume.'30 Darwin did indeed need Lyell's extremely long time-scale - significantly longer, incidentally,... | |
| Claude C. Albritton - 2002 - Страниц: 256
...historian will recognize as having produced a revolution in natural science, and yet does not admit how vast have been the past periods of time, may at once close this volume" (1g). Naturalists may be forgiven for believing that species are immutable creations, he concedes,... | |
| Percy Seymour - 2003 - Страниц: 214
...years would be needed: 'He who can read Sir Charles Lyell's grand work on the Principles of Geology and yet does not admit how incomprehensibly vast have...past periods of time, may at once close this volume.* Darwin tried to get some estimate of the age of the Earth by calculating the denudation of the Weald... | |
| Anthony Hallam - 2005 - Страниц: 244
...historian will recognise as having produced a revolution in natural science, and yet does not admit how vast have been the past periods of time, may at once close this volume.' Lyell's gradualism indeed became the key to Darwin's biological gradualism, and catastrophic changes... | |
| M. Brake, N. Hook - 2007 - Страниц: 274
...and empire. Darwinism injected the lifeblood of history into science. 'He who... does not admit how vast have been the past periods of time may at once close this volume', Darwin wrote in the Origin. The theory of evolution might have been used to unite the human and nonhuman... | |
| 1899 - Страниц: 840
...jecognizeas having produced a revolution in natural science, yet does not admit how incomprehensibly cast have been the past periods of time, may at once close this volume," I shall next read a short statement from Pago's ' Advanced Students' Text-Book of Geology,' published... | |
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