 | Geologists' Association - 1908 - 720 頁
...1908, a few days after this Address was delivered. system of geology, but that all must be content for many years to be exclusively engaged in furnishing materials for future generalisations. By acting up to these principles with consistency, they in a few years disarmed all... | |
 | Geologists' Association - 1908 - 712 頁
...whilst these pages were passing through the press. system of geology, but that all must be content for many years to be exclusively engaged in furnishing materials for future generalisations. By acting up to these principles with consistency, they in a few years disarmed all... | |
 | 1912 - 572 頁
...maxim, that the time was not yet come for a general system of geology ; but that all must be content for many years to be exclusively engaged in furnishing...with consistency they in a few years disarmed all prejudices, and rescued the science from the imputation of being a dangerous, or, at best, but a visionary,... | |
 | William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - 1917 - 784 頁
...maxim that the time was not yet come for a general system of geology, but that all must be content for many years to be exclusively engaged in furnishing...being a dangerous, or at best but a visionary pursuit. MODERN PROGRESS OF GEOLOGY Study of Organic Remains. — Inquiries were at the same time prosecuted... | |
 | Joseph Mayer - 1927 - 540 頁
...insisting "that the time was not yet come for a general system of geology, but that all must be content for many years to be exclusively engaged in furnishing materials for future generalizations." This emphatic statement had a marked influence upon the fact gathering of his day. Lyell courageously... | |
 | 1830 - 534 頁
...th¿i ‘ time time was not yet come for a general system of geology, but that all must be content for many years to be exclusively engaged in furnishing materials for future generalizations.” Mr. Lyell has now, however, himselfgiven a tolerably strong indication that in his opinion the present... | |
 | Mary Poovey - 1998 - 450 頁
...the tune was not yet come for a general system of geology, but that all must be content for many yean to be exclusively engaged in furnishing materials...prejudice, and rescued the science from the imputation oi being a dangerous, or at best but a visionary pursuit" (LyelL Priiiciples oj Onliiyjy, ed. Martin... | |
 | 1912 - 834 頁
...maxim, that the time was not yet come for a general system of geology ; but that all must be content for many years to be exclusively engaged in furnishing...with consistency they in a few years disarmed all prejudices, and rescued the science from the imputation of being a dangerous, or, at best, but a visionary,... | |
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To multiply and record observations, and patiently to await the result at some future period, was the object proposed by them ; and it was their favourite maxim that the time was not yet come for a general system of geology, but that all must be content... 
