Waste: a Lecture Delivered At the Bristol Institution for the Advancement of Science, Literature ...
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It would be incredi- * Dr. Mantell's " Wonders of Geology," vol. i., p. 104.
14 ble, had we not unequivocal proof given to the senses, that there had been such extensive de- struction of vegetable forms as the coal measures reveal : the coal itself being, as you know, the product of the decomposition of coniferous plants.
As to animal life, it is enough to think of the ex- tensive coral reefs and islands built up by animals ; and of mountains nearly composed of the debris of animals, as in the ...oolite which runs through a great part of Europe, and of the enormous col- lection of encrinitic remains in the mountain- limestone.
And almost everywhere we find the debris of living forms scattered, cmt densely packed in their stony beds, to a degree that makes the earth seem a great collection of catacombs — a vast necropolis. It is by a strong effort of the imagination that we conceive those strata to have been once scenes of beauty and verdure and luxuriance, shadowed by stately palms, and populous with animal tribes ; and it is rather a painful effort to reflect on the ruin and desolation and destruction that overtook crea- tures into which God had breathed the breath of life, however little else there may have been 15 in these beings to excite our sympathy.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It would be incredi- * Dr. Mantell's " Wonders of Geology," vol. i., p. 104.
14 ble, had we not unequivocal proof given to the senses, that there had been such extensive de- struction of vegetable forms as the coal measures reveal : the coal itself being, as you know, the product of the decomposition of coniferous plants.
As to animal life, it is enough to think of the ex- tensive coral reefs and islands built up by animals ; and of mountains nearly composed of the debris of animals, as in the ...oolite which runs through a great part of Europe, and of the enormous col- lection of encrinitic remains in the mountain- limestone.
And almost everywhere we find the debris of living forms scattered, cmt densely packed in their stony beds, to a degree that makes the earth seem a great collection of catacombs — a vast necropolis. It is by a strong effort of the imagination that we conceive those strata to have been once scenes of beauty and verdure and luxuriance, shadowed by stately palms, and populous with animal tribes ; and it is rather a painful effort to reflect on the ruin and desolation and destruction that overtook crea- tures into which God had breathed the breath of life, however little else there may have been 15 in these beings to excite our sympathy.
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