Theory of the earth;
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781425524494
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - General; History / United States / General
First sentence: IT is natural for man, reasoning from the experience acquired during the brief portion of time allotted to him as the term of his existence, to conclude that the material world, from its first creation to the present time, has presented substantially the same appearance that it now does, and that the multifarious conditions on which depend the existence and well-being of the myriad living forms inhabiting it, throughout all past time, must have remained nearly, if not identically, the same.