 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1842 - 494 pàgines
...the stage, and to make him work miracles for the sake of confirming our preconceived hypotheses." — "I hold in utter abomination, most learned Academicians...you how these marine animals were transported into the mountains by natural causes." * A brief abstract then follows of Moro's theory, by which, says... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 336 pàgines
...Cremona in 1749, strongly opposed those who would introduce the supernatural into the domain of Nature. " I hold in utter abomination, most learned Academicians...a miracle, and I undertake, with the assistance of Moro, to explain to you how these marine monsters were transported into the mountains by natural causes."... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 388 pàgines
...domain of nature. " I hold in utter abomination, most learned Academicians, those systems which arc built with their foundations in the air, and cannot...a miracle, and I undertake, with the assistance of Moro, to explain to you how these marine monsters were transported into the mountains by natural causes."... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1871 - 338 pàgines
...Cremona in 1749, strongly opposed those who would introduce the supernatural into the domain of Nature. " I hold in utter abomination, most learned Academicians...which are built with their foundations in the air, and canhot be propped up without a miracle, and I undertake, with the assistance of Moro, to explain to... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 714 pàgines
...stage, and to make him work miracles for the sake of confirming our preconceived hypothesis.' — ' I hold in utter abomination, most learned Academicians...miracle ; and I undertake, with the assistance of Moro, to explain to you how these marine animals were transported into the mountains by natural causes.'f... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1885 - 348 pàgines
...band, stands distinct. Let us glance briefly at their historical development, and endeavour to see bow that explains their position. In considering first...miracle ; and I undertake, with the assistance of Moro, to explain to you how these marine animals were transported into mountains by natural causes."... | |
 | Francis Buchanan White White - 1886 - 448 pàgines
...towards the end of the eighteenth century the key-note of modern Geology was sounded when Genevelli exclaimed before the Academy of Cremona, " I hold...miracle ; and I undertake, with the assistance of Moro, to explain to you how these marine animals were transported into mountains by natural causes."... | |
 | William Henry Chandler - 1898 - 600 pàgines
...Him work miracles for the sake of confirming our preconceived hypothesis. I hold in utter abomination those systems which are built with their foundations...the air and cannot be propped up without a miracle." About 1700 Leibnitz propounded the doctrine of an original liquid globe, covered, after it had sufficiently... | |
 | 1920 - 726 pàgines
...broader views of certain Italian geologists of this time. Says Generelli : "I hold in utter abomination those systems which are built with their foundations...air, and cannot be propped up without a miracle." The culmination of catastrophism as a scientific dogma is found in the writings of Buckland in England... | |
 | 1887 - 920 pàgines
...texts. Generelli, a Carmelite friar, addressing, in 1 749, a learned assembly at Cremona, observed : ' I hold in utter abomination, most learned" academicians,...be propped up without a miracle ; and I undertake to explain geological phenomena without violence, without fiction, without hypotheses, and without... | |
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I hold in utter abomination, most learned Academicians ! those systems which are built with their foundations in the air, and cannot be propped up without a miracle, and I undertake, with the assistance of Moro, to explain to you how these marine monsters... 