. The evolutionist at large [microform]. Evolution; Biology; Evolution; Biologie. mm , I! > ft i â¢! 74 THE EVOLUTIONIST AT LARGE. as much, and between the lias and the lowest Laurentian beds at nearly ten times as much. Just the same sort of lessening perspective exists in geology as in ordinary history. Most people look upon the age before the Norman Conquest as a mere brief episode of the English annals; yet six whole centuries elapsed between the landing of the real or mythical Hengst at Ebbsfieet and the land- ing of William the Conqueror at Hastings ; while under eight centuries elaps
. The evolutionist at large [microform]. Evolution; Biology; Evolution; Biologie. mm , I! > ft i â¢! 74 THE EVOLUTIONIST AT LARGE. as much, and between the lias and the lowest Laurentian beds at nearly ten times as much. Just the same sort of lessening perspective exists in geology as in ordinary history. Most people look upon the age before the Norman Conquest as a mere brief episode of the English annals; yet six whole centuries elapsed between the landing of the real or mythical Hengst at Ebbsfieet and the land- ing of William the Conqueror at Hastings ; while under eight centuries elapsed between the time of William the Conqueror and the ac- cession of Queen Victoria. But, just as most English histories give far more space to the three centuries since Elizabeth than to the eleven centuries which preceded them, so most books on geology give far more space to the single seon (embracing the secondary and tertiary periods) which comes nearest our own time, than to the nine aeons which spread from the Laurentian to the Carboniferous epoch. In the earliest period, records either geological or historical are wholly wanting; â '. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. London : Chatto & Windus
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