Download or read book The Indiana School Journal, 1861, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint) written by O. Phelps and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Indiana School Journal, 1861, Vol. 6 The records of our planet's physical history, from the dawn of organized existence down to the epoch of man's creation, have, for the most part, been brought to light since the commencement of the nineteenth century. Within this brief period the immense antiquity of our globe, the former high temperature of its surface, and, in short. 31) the main facts and doctrines of geology, have been discov ered or confirmed by a laborious examination of the planetary grunt. Bad Me earth has also a pre-geoloyic history - a history as yet unde veloped the grand outlines of which must be derived chiefly from celestial phenomena. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.