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 | Alexander Henry Green - Geology - 1876 - 606 pages
...geological speculation " no powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no actions to be admitted of except those of which we know the...alleged in order to explain a common appearance." * Following out this principle, he said something like this : You have here a rock, and you want to... | |
 | Alexander Henry Green - Geology - 1876 - 612 pages
...geological speculation " no powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no actions to lie admitted of except those of which we know the principle,...alleged in order to explain a common appearance." * Following out this principle, he said something like this : You have here a rock, and you want to... | |
 | Alexander Henry Green - Geology - 1880 - 596 pages
...be employed that are not natural to the globe, no actions to be admitted of except those of which wo know the principle, and no extraordinary events to...alleged in order to explain a common appearance." * Following out this principle, he said something like this : You have here a rock, and you want to... | |
 | Alexander Henry Green - Geology - 1882 - 762 pages
...geological speculation " no powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no actions to be admitted of except those of which we know the...alleged in order to explain a common appearance."* Following out this principle, he said something like this : You have here a rock, and you want to know... | |
 | Biology - 1896 - 1166 pages
...geological speculation " no powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no actions to be admitted of except those of which we know the...alleged in order to explain a common appearance." He occupied himself mainly studying the changes that are now taking place on the earth's surface, and... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - Geologists - 1897 - 326 pages
...work a few sentences in illustration of these statements. In the interpretation of nature, he remarks, "no powers are to be employed that are not natural...be alleged in order to explain a common appearance. The powers of nature are not to be~ employed, in order to destroy the very object of those powers;... | |
 | Liverpool Geological Society - Geology - 1900 - 584 pages
...Continuity," and say with Hutton, " No powers are to he employed that are not natural to the globe, no actions to be admitted of, except those of which we know the...alleged in order to explain a common appearance." Hence, wishing to solve the problems set before us in deposits accumulated during the " Ice Age," we... | |
 | 1915 - 294 pages
...sentence : " No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle, and no extraordinary events to be alleged to explain a common appearance." His work was strengthened by that of his pupil John Playfair, but... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - Science - 1903 - 582 pages
...Hutton had, perhaps subconsciously, in mind. The keynote of his work may be found in his sentence : " No powers are to be employed that are not natural...principle, and no extraordinary events to be alleged to explain a common appearance." * Unlike Werner, Ilutton started from observations not from preconceptions.... | |
 | Peter Macnair - Geology - 1908 - 350 pages
...past history of the earth " no powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no actions to be admitted of except those of which we know the...alleged in order to explain a common appearance." Hutton divided his original treatise into four parts. In the first two of these he discussed the origin... | |
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