 Although we cannot give a very satisfactory answer to this question, it is evident that the theory of diminution of water remains equally probable. We may be fully convinced of its truth, and are so, although we may not be able to explain it. To know...  System of Mineralogy - Page 82by Robert Jameson - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh - Natural history - 1880 - 500 pages
...[he prudently gave no answer at all] "it is evident that the theory of the diminution of the waters remains equally probable. We may be fully convinced of its truth, and are so, although we may not be able to explain it. To know from observation that a great phenomenon took... | |
 | Archibald Geikie (Sir).) - Geology - 1897 - 320 pages
...staunch Wernerian. " Although," he says, " we cannot give any very satisfactory answer to this question, it is evident that the theory of the diminution of...probable. We may be fully convinced of its truth, and are so, although we may not be able to explain it. To know from observation that a great phenomenon took... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - Science - 1925 - 492 pages
...Wernerian, announced that " although we cannot give any very satisfactory answer to this question, it is evident that the theory of the diminution of the water remains equally probable. We may be convinced of its truth, and are so, although we may not be able to explain it. To know from observation... | |
 | John Michels - Science - 1926 - 858 pages
...said, "we cannot give any very satisfactory answer to this question, it is evident that the theory of diminution of the water remains equally probable. We may be fully convinced of its truth, and are so, although we may not be able to explain it. To know from observation that a great phenomenon took... | |
 | Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh - Natural history - 1880 - 450 pages
...[he prudently gave no answer at all] "it is evident that the theory of the diminution of the waters remains equally probable. We may be fully convinced of its truth, and are so, although we may not be able to explain it. To know from observation that a great phenomenon took... | |
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