...and 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...and of each page, only here and there a few lines." As geologists and paleontologists are men of science, it was but reasonable to expect that they would...

...imperfectly written in a changing dialect; of this history we possess the last volume alone, and that of only two or three countries. Of this volume, only here...and of each page, only here and there a few lines. On this view, the difficulties above discussed are greatly diminished, or even disappear. Chapter X...

...lurpt. jmi written in a rhanpinp dialect; of this history we possess the last volume alone, rclanng only to two or three countries. Of this volume, only...short chapter has been preserved; and of each page, onh here and there a iew tines. Each word of the slowly-changing language, in which the history is...

...text fragmented by waste and linguistic change that proves difficult to read: 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...

...of the book (1859, pp. 310-311): 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...

...Vgl. hierzu auch Hans Blumenberg, Die Lesbarkeit der Welt. 276 „I look at the geological record, äs a history of the world imperfectly kept, and written...and of each page, only here and there a few lines." Darwin, Origin, 777. Darwin greift jedoch nicht auf Cuviers Formulierung der Metapher zurück, sondern...

...cribbed by Darwin in a well-known passage from On the Origin of Species, where he viewed the natural geological record "as a history of the world imperfectly...here and there a short chapter has been preserved, only here and there a few lines."20 Nineteenth-century archeologists were equally taken by the idea....

...of likening the geological record to a volume recording the "history of the world imperfectly kept." "Of this volume, only here and there a short chapter...and of each page, only here and there a few lines. Each word of the slowlychanging language, more or less different in the successive chapters, may represent...

...animals and plants that had peopled the earth -from the earliest times. Darwin says on this point : — " I look at the geological record as a history of the...and of each page, only here and there a few lines."" "The crust of the earth, with its imbedded remains, must not be looked at as a well-filled museum,...

...Origin, Ed. ip 310. vi. p. 452. " 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...