...written in a changing dialect ; of this history we possess the ' last volume alone, relating to only two or three countries^. Of ' this volume only here and there a short chapter has been pre' served : and of each page only here and there a few lines. Each 1 word of the slowly changing...

...undoubtedly at once reject my theory. For my part, following out Lyell's metaphor, I look at the natural geological record, as a history of the world imperfectly...and of each page, only here and there a few lines. Each word of the slowly changing language, in which the history is supposed to be written, being more...

...undoubtedly at once reject my theory. For my part, following out Ly ell's metaphor, I look at the natural geological record, as a history of the world imperfectly...and of each page, only here and there a few lines. Each word of the slowly changing language, in which the history is supposed to be written, being more...

...imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect. Of this history we possess the last volume only, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume...and of each page only here and there a few lines. On this view the difficulties above discussed are greatly diminished, or even disappear (337). So then,...

...imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect. Of this history we possess the last volume only, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume...and of each page only here and there a few lines. On this view the difficulties above discussed are greatly diminished, or even disappear (337). So then,...

...this history we possess the' last volume only, relating to two or three countries. Of this volume but here and there a short chapter has been preserved, and of each page only here and there a few lines. Each word of the slowly changing language, in which the history is supposed to be written, being more...

...by catastrophes. . . . And again, for my part, following out Lyell's metaphor, I look at the natural geological record as a history of the -world imperfectly,...and of each page only here and there a few lines. Each word of the slowly changing language in which the history is written, being more or less different...

...Geological Record is a " History of the World imperfectly kept and written, in a changing dialect ; that of this history we possess the last volume alone,...and of each page only here and there a few lines." But what pretention should a mere science of facts have to compete with the imaginative theories of...

...found are now covered over by seas. Mr. Darwin says1: — 'For my part, following out Lyell's metaphor, I look at the geological record as a history of the...and of each page only here and there a few lines.' Such as it is, however, the record seems to show very plainly that there has been nothing approaching...

...preserved only under very rare conditions ; so that, as Sir Charles Lyell has well expressed it, we have " a history of the world imperfectly kept and written...and of each page, only here and there a few lines." Imperfect as we have seen geological record to be, all its direct evidence is in favour of evolution....