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Whatever steadfastness is gained for great moral truths which change not through the ages however they may be thought, in dark or falsely brilliant epochs, to resolve themselves into elemental vapour gives man a securer foothold in his onward and upward progress.
At the same time the general climate and the atmosphere seem like what we may find in the tropics at present. It is evident that in More's world various epochs are represented, and that animals of different ages are living side by side." "What do you think of the opkuk?" asked Featherstone, with a yawn. "Well, I hardly know." "Why, it must be a dodo, of course," said Melick, "only magnified."
The heathen, their kings, and their warriors, listened to the preachers, abandoned their erroneous beliefs and forsook their priests and their idols, to celebrate the praises of the most wise Creator of the Universe, the King of Kings, whose heart is filled with infinite mercy. Resumé To explain this, it is necessary to remember the epochs when the facts were consigned to writing.
A geological formation is the sum of all the strata deposited over the whole surface of the earth during one of these epochs: a geological fauna or flora is the sum of all the species of animals or plants which occupied the whole surface of the globe, during one of these epochs.
In point of government, for example, there has been the savage, nomad, patriarch, kingdom, constitutional monarchy, democracy, republic, federal republic. There have been great epochs of political convulsion in the conflicts with external powers and in civil struggles and revolutions.
Walcott, of the Smithsonian Institution, says that the antiquity of the earth must be measured not in millions, for they are too short, nor hundreds of millions, for this carries us too far, but must surely be measured in tens of millions of years. When we attempt to study the past we find its various epochs unequally clear to us. In human history only quite modern times are absolutely clear.
Alone unrivaled in her weird, wild grandeur stands Arizona where spiry rock-ribbed giants stab an emerald, opal-tinted sky, and terraced mesas of wondrous amber hue form natural stairways, that grandly wrought were carved step after step, through successive epochs of erosion, affording thus an easy ascent to the rugged profile of this land of the Western Hemisphere.
Man will be able to live quite differently, for hygienic conditions even those considered most indispensable will no longer be of any importance. One of the most irresistible attractions of Christian Science lies in its declaration that it will be possible at some future time to overcome death a dream that has been known in all epochs.
There are two great epochs in the evolution of the earth-moon system two critical epochs which possess a unique dynamical significance; one of these periods was early in the beginning, while the other cannot arrive for countless ages yet to come.
But, in the meanwhile, if any form of the doctrine of progressive development is correct, we must extend by long epochs the most liberal estimate that has yet been made of the antiquity of Man. End of On Some Fossil Remains of Man.
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