During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one condition to another, whole races of animals-each group adapted to the physical conditions in which they lived-were successively… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from lower to higher grades of being. The first fiat of Creation which went forth, doubtlessly ensured the… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one condition to… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations. — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from lower… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins. — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
