Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, Volume 10Victoria Institute., 1877 - Religion and science |
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... race whose implements are found sealed up in stalagmite , with bones of extinct mammals of the same epoch as the valley and terrace gravels . All such caves are within one hundred and fifty feet of running water , or of the sea , the ...
... race whose implements are found sealed up in stalagmite , with bones of extinct mammals of the same epoch as the valley and terrace gravels . All such caves are within one hundred and fifty feet of running water , or of the sea , the ...
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... race of men ranged over the whole region from the Pyrenees and Switzerland as far to the north as Belgium , as far to the east as Würtemburg , and west as Devonshire . The cave - dwellers are the same as those who have left the rude ...
... race of men ranged over the whole region from the Pyrenees and Switzerland as far to the north as Belgium , as far to the east as Würtemburg , and west as Devonshire . The cave - dwellers are the same as those who have left the rude ...
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... race elsewhere at that time , as it would be for the celebrated Zulu savage to construct a theory of mankind founded on the empty powder - cans and pit- falls in the wake of Gordon Cumming . We have no indication whatever of the ...
... race elsewhere at that time , as it would be for the celebrated Zulu savage to construct a theory of mankind founded on the empty powder - cans and pit- falls in the wake of Gordon Cumming . We have no indication whatever of the ...
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... race of men ; for Sir Charles affirms that the human skeleton in the Belgian * Antiquity of Man , p . 196 . § Ib . , p . 197 . † Ib . , p . 19 . Ib . , p . 193 . ‡ Ib . , p . 197 . mammoth caves does not betray any marked departure in ...
... race of men ; for Sir Charles affirms that the human skeleton in the Belgian * Antiquity of Man , p . 196 . § Ib . , p . 197 . † Ib . , p . 19 . Ib . , p . 193 . ‡ Ib . , p . 197 . mammoth caves does not betray any marked departure in ...
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... races of the human family . * Again , Sir Charles says that , between the palæolithic and the neolithic there is evidently " a vast interval of time , " but gives no grounds for the assertion save the modern slow extinc- tion of the ...
... races of the human family . * Again , Sir Charles says that , between the palæolithic and the neolithic there is evidently " a vast interval of time , " but gives no grounds for the assertion save the modern slow extinc- tion of the ...
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Page 51 - And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man : All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Page 209 - But now, O Lord, thou art our father : we are the clay, and thou our potter ; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Page 224 - Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
Page 51 - And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month : in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Page 49 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Page 220 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...
Page 223 - And God blessed them, saying : Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 51 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven ; and they were destroyed from the earth : and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 305 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: And the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Page 143 - Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of the earth and the whole solar system. But though in the course of ages catastrophes have occurred and may yet occur in the heavens, though ancient systems may be dissolved and new systems evolved out of their ruins, the molecules out of which these systems are built — the foundation-stones of the material universe — remain unbroken and unworn.