The Story of the Earth and ManHarper, 1887 - 411 pages |
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allied America apes areas beds bones boulder clay Cambrian Carboniferous cave changes clay climate Cloth coal formation coal period continental continents corals creation creatures Cretaceous crust crustaceans Darwin Dawkins deposits derivation Devonian distinct earth elevation Eocene Eozoic Eozoon Europe Eurypterids evolution evolutionist existence extinct fact fauna feet fishes flora Foraminifera forests forms fossil further geological geologists gigantic Glacial period gravels Half Calf hemisphere higher hippopotamus human Ichthyosaur known land Laurentian limestone living mammals marine matter merely Mesozoic Miocene Modern period mollusks naturalists nature Northern Hemisphere occur ocean oldest organic origin Paleozoic perhaps Permian physical plateaus Pleistocene Plesiosaurs Pliocene Post-glacial period Post-pliocene pre-historic present Primordial probably produced race relations remains reptiles resemblance rocks sand sandstones sediments shells Silurian similar species spiritual stones structure subsidence supposed surface Tertiary thick things tion trees Trilobites Upper Silurian vegetable
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Page 337 - We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.
Page 379 - And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 16 - The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth...
Page 387 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength ; and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Page 332 - If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years ; there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.