 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 442 pages
...Review, vol. xxvi. p. 361. hundred miles, they were found and carried to their home in the Blossom. * The space traversed in some of these instances was...Australia, or even some coral islet of the Pacific, we might expect their descendants, though they should never become more enlightened than the South Sea... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1855 - 584 pages
...involving excited feeling to maintain, but simply following up the deductions of a wide-sweeping research. Were the whole of mankind now cut off with the exception of one family, inhabiting tlie old or the new continent, or Australia, or even tome coral islet of the Pacific, we might expect... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...security, the whole earth should have become the abode of rude tribes of hunters and fishers. "\Vere the whole of mankind now cut off, with the exception of one family, in- . habiting the old or new continent, or »Australia, or even some coral islet of the Pacific, we... | |
 | Religion - 1843 - 1056 pages
...like manner. SECOND SERIES, VOL. X. NO. I. 3 "The space traversed in some instances," says Lyell, " was so great, that similar accidents might suffice...Australia, or even some coral islet of the Pacific, we might expect their descendants, though they should never become more enlightened than the South Sea... | |
 | Theology - 1843 - 522 pages
...like manner. SECOND SERIES, VOL. X. NO. I. 3 "The space traversed in some instances," says Lyell, " was so great, that similar accidents might suffice...Australia, or even some coral islet of the Pacific, we might expect their descendants, though they should never become more enlightened than the South Sea... | |
 | Theology - 1843 - 522 pages
...the human race to attain that advanced stage of civilization which empowers the navigator to cjross the ocean in all directions with security, the •whole...Australia, or even some coral islet of the Pacific, we might expect their descendants, though they should never become more enlightened than the South Sea... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Mexico - 1850 - 474 pages
...closes an enumeration of some extraordinary and well-attested instances of this kind with remarking, ts Were the whole of mankind now cut off, with the exception....they should never become more enlightened than the South-Sea Islanders or the Esquimaux, to spread, in the course of ages, over the whole earth, diffused... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - Antarctica - 1853 - 534 pages
...two great continents, or Australia, or even one of the coral islets of the Pacific, were cut off, " we should expect their descendants, though they should...become more enlightened than the South Sea Islanders or Esquimaux, to spread, in the course of ages, over the whole earth, diffused partly by the tendency... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - Presbyterianism - 1860 - 772 pages
...shores." (4.) Sir Charles Lyell, after a rigid induction of facts, adopts the following conclusion : " "Were the whole of mankind now cut off, with the exception...Australia, or even some coral islet of the Pacific, we might expect their descendants — though they would never become more enlightened than the South Sea... | |
 | William Nelson Pendleton - Bible and science - 1860 - 362 pages
...received opinion of an origin from a single pair." And, continues the same philosophic investigator, "were the whole of mankind now cut off with the exception of one family, inhabiting the Old or the New Continent, or Australia, or even some coral islet of the Pacific, we might expect their descendants,... | |
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