 The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant, and another era of equal human crime and human improvidence, and of like duration with that through which traces of that crime and that improvidence extend, would reduce it to such a...  Commissioner of Agriculture - Էջ 246Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture - 1866Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1879 - 378 էջ
...set in action by man has brought the earth to a desolation almost as complete as that of the moon. " The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest...duration with that through which traces of that crime and of that improvidence extend, would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished productiveness, of... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1864 - 592 էջ
...purposely effected improvements accomplished by voluntary selection of breeding animals. of time which we call " the historical period," they are known to have...duration with that through which traces of that crime and that improvidence extend, would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished productiveness, of shattered... | |
 | 1864 - 442 էջ
...desolation almost as complete as that of the moon ; and though, within that brief space of time which we call ' the historical period ' they are known to have...duration with that through which traces of that crime and that improvidence extend, would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished destructiveness, of shattered... | |
 | 1865 - 792 էջ
...avers that in parts he has already done, to ' a desolation almost as complete as that of the moon.' ' The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant/ he continues ; ' and another era of equal human crime and human improvidence, and of like duration... | |
 | The London Quarterly VOL.XXVII October 1866 and January,1867 - 1867 - 554 էջ
...agencies of which wo have no present knowledge, and over which we have no prospective control." Again, " The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant." Such statements take us by surprise. Human crime and human improvidence have doubtless done much to... | |
 | 1864 - 408 էջ
...desolation almost as complete as that of the moon ; and though, within that brief space of time which we call ' the historical period ' they are known to have...duration with that through which traces of that crime and that improvidence extend, would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished destructiveness, of shattered... | |
 | National Board of Trade (U.S.) - 1872 - 256 էջ
...desolation almost as complete as that of the moon; and though, within that brief space of time which we call the historical period, they are known to have...duration with that through which traces of that crime and that improvidence extend, would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished productiveness, of shattered... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1874 - 702 էջ
...meadows, they are now too far deteriorated to be reclaimable by man, nor can they become again fitted f»r human use, except through great geological changes,...duration with that through which traces of that crime and that improvidence extend, would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished productiveness, of shattered... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1879 - 388 էջ
...set in action by man has brought the earth to a desolation almost as complete as that of the moon. " The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest...duration with that through which traces of that crime and of that improvidence extend, would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished productiveness, of... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1879 - 376 էջ
...set in action by man has brought the earth to a desolation almost as complete as that of the moon. " The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest...duration with that through which traces of that crime and of that improvidence extend, would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished productiveness, of... | |
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