 | Edmund Burke - 1880 - 702 oldal
...Edinburgh, and was said to have furnished many of the scientific facts upon which the conclusions advanced by the author of " The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation " were based. He was an ardent field-naturalist, and was engaged in active and useful work at Newcastle... | |
 | George Keate - 1790 - 388 oldal
...thallogens, we see a depth of wisdom and goodness in the ordination of that peculiarity which was seized upon by the author of the ' Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation,' as an argument for the transmutation of species. Their spo rules, or germinating principles, which... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1855 - 590 oldal
...metamorphosis ! Oh, the credulity of the incredulous ! This hypothesis is advocated in a more plausible form by the author of "The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation," who contends " that the first step in the creation of life upon this planet was a chemicoelectric operation,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1878 - 530 oldal
...ought to be reducible to so much horse power, and be applicable to weave calico or to turn a mill ; and, conversely, light, heat, and electricity should...question of consciousness, is much more guarded and cautions. After an explanation of the operation of the nerves of sensation and motion, he proceeds,... | |
 | 1845 - 758 oldal
...a little speculation. In the Introduction (p. 59) we find the yet unverified theory lately taken up by the author of the " Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation," that planets of the same group " have been formed, under the dominion of one central body, by precipitation... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1845 - 606 oldal
...Well, in one of these occasional upheavings, or advances of the principle of development, referred to by the author of the Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, we may hope to see all this set right by the elevation of the Simpkin nature to that of the De Boodle.... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1845 - 634 oldal
...Well, in one of these occasional upheavings, or advances of the principle of development, referred to by the author of the Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, we may hope to see all this set right by the elevation of the Simpkin nature to that of the De Boodle.... | |
 | 1846 - 674 oldal
...d'apres leurs caracteres chintiques, mintralogiques et geologiques. 8vo, pp. 35. Brussels. Explanations, by the Author of the " Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation." Hamilton, George. Practical Geology of Ireland. 1 vol. 8vo. London, 1844. Humboldt, A. de. Kosmos.... | |
 | 1850 - 600 oldal
...have been constructed out of the same materials as our own. It is thus, for example, turned to account by the author of the " Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation." After stating that the elements, or simplest chemical constituents of the globe, are those sixty or... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 604 oldal
...have been constructed out of the same materials as our own. It is thus, for example, turned to account by the author of the " Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation." After stating that the elements, or simplest chemical constituí nts of the globe, are those sixty... | |
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It is thus, for example, turned to account by the author of the " Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. 
