Evolutionism: A Series of Illustrated Chart Lectures upon the Evolution of All Things in the Universe. from Atoms to Worlds, from Atoms to Souls - edizione con copertina flessibile

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE V. TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED FEET DEEPER INTO THE BOSOM OF MOTHER EARTH. Grand March Of Progress.?Terrible Monsters InHabit The Earth.?Great Winged Dragons Fly Through The Air.?We Find The Remains OF Swarms Of Monstrous Reptiles.?A Frog As Large As An Ox.?A Lizard With Eves The Size Of A Washtub.?A New Cycle Of Life. UR journey this evening has its point of departure about half a mile below the surface, and the strata already passed in our descent represents millions of years of the wear and tear of the elements, and ages of uplifting and degrading of the land surfaces of the globe, while life went forward in its grand march of progress. THE GREAT MESOZOIC TIME?CHART F. We now delve into the rock of the "Age of Reptiles." This age ended with such terrific convulsions and disturbances that but a few types remained of all the vast number of beings who inhabited our planet. The Mesozoic time, like the Paleozoic, vas closed by mighty upheavals. As Winchell beautifully says: " The ever-shrinkingearth- nucleus necessitated the ever-enlarging wrinkles of the enveloping crust; the furrows must deepen and the folds must rise." Steel says of this period: "Another cycle of geologic history is finished, another phase of life has swept across the slowly-forming world, culminated and broken on the shore of the past. The reign of reptiles is closed." "The increasing pressure of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans produced another upheaval of the land, and another addition to the growing continent. This was probably not a sudden convulsion, but a long-continued upward movement. By it, however, the conditions of life were changed." Nature had ended a long series of developing efforts, during which she had produced some of the most remarkable monsters possible to conceive u...