 | Charles Stuart Gager - 1916 - 670 pages
...intervals between successive periods were of vast duration. "I look at the geological record," said Darwin, "as a history of the world imperfectly kept, and written...and of each page, only here and there a few lines. Each word of the slowly changing language, more or less different in the successive chapters, may represent... | |
 | William Berryman Scott - 1917 - 222 pages
...occur in the history of life on the earth, so far as that history has been discovered and deciphered. "I look at the geological record as a history of the...and of each page only here and there a few lines. Each word of the slowly changing language, more or less different in the successive chapters, may represent... | |
 | Charles Stuart Gager - 1920 - 292 pages
...between successive periods were of vast duration. ."I look at the geological record," said Darwin, "as a history of the world imperfectly kept, and written...and of each page, only here and there a few lines. Each word of the slowly changing language, more or less different in the successive chapters, may represent... | |
 | 1921 - 560 pages
...the palaeontological record is shown by the following quotation from the Origin of Species:—ED.] "I look at the geological record as a history of the...and of each page only here and there a few lines. Each word of the slowly changing language, more or less different in the successive chapters, may represent... | |
 | Alonzo Lafayette Baker, Francis David Nichol - 1926 - 184 pages
...serious nature." ' He then proceeds, in a novel fashion, to explain away these "most serious" objections: "For my part, ... I look at the geological record...and of each page, only here and there a few lines. Each word of the slowly changing language, more or less different in the successive chapters, may represent... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Holmes - 1926 - 470 pages
...in his chapter on "The Imperfection of the Geological Record." This record, as Darwin reminds us, is a history of the world imperfectly kept, and .written...and of each page, only here and there a few lines. Each word of a slowly-changing language, more or less different in the successive chapters, may represent... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Holmes - 1926 - 476 pages
...in his chapter on "The Imperfection of the Geological Record." This record, as Darwin reminds us, is a history of the world imperfectly kept, and .written...and of each page, only here and there a few lines. Each word of a slowly-changing language, more or less different in the successive chapters, may represent... | |
 | Jesse William Sprowls - 1927 - 292 pages
...in a changing dialect. Of this history we possess the last volume alone relating to only one or two countries. Of this volume, only here and there a short chapter has been preserved, and on each page only here and there a few lines. Each word of the slowly changing language, more or less... | |
 | Edinburgh Geological Society - 1893 - 404 pages
...imperfection of the geological record, Darwin considers that we possess the last volume only of that record, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume...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... | |
 | University of California, Berkeley - 1916 - 332 pages
...earliest to most recent. Darwin wrote: "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 slowlychanging language, in which the history is written, being more or less different... | |
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I look at the geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume, only here and there a short chapter... 
