Journal of the Department of Letters, Volume 5

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Contains contributions on various subjects, notably India, Buddhism, ancient chronology, etc.
 

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Page 103 - The line joining a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal times.
Page 88 - States with the ordinary trades and occupations of the people seems to be on the increase. [It] is impossible for us to shut our eyes to the fact that many of the laws of this character, while passed under what is claimed to be the police power for the purpose of protecting the public health or welfare, are, in reality, passed from other motives.
Page 109 - Geologists now know of seven periods of decided temperature changes (earliest and latest Late Proterozoic, Silurian, Permian, Triassic, Cretaceous-Eocene, and Pleistocene) and of these at least four were glacial climates (both Proterozoic times, Permian, and Pleistocene). The greatest intensity of these reduced temperatures varied between the hemispheres, for in earliest Late Proterozoic and Pleistocene time it lay in the northern, while in latest Proterozoic and Permian time it was more equatorial...
Page 79 - It is evident that there is a manifest progress in the succession of beings on the surface of the Earth. This progress consists in an increasing similarity to the living fauna, and among the Vertebrates, especially in their increasing resemblance to man.
Page 158 - The large tract of low country, forming Rajputana, west of the Aravallis, possesses a mingling of the distinctive characters of the Peninsula, with those of the extra-Peninsula, and hence cannot with certainty be referred to either. Rajputana can be regarded as a part of the Peninsula inasmuch as in geotectonic characters it shows very little disturbance, while in its containing marine, fossiliferous deposits of Mesozoic and Cainozoic ages it shows greater resemblance to the extra-Peninsular area.
Page 130 - He is adapted to living on the ground, ' an adaptation which allowed him to escape beyond the limits of forests and occupy the whole world.
Page 74 - ... and enforcing it. The very first section of the book is entitled " The hypothesis," and the position on which the whole of the work is said to be based is stated clearly in the second paragraph of this section : — the chief differences " between man and his nearest relatives " may " all be traced to the influence of one variation operating amongst the original anthropoid conditions. That variation was the adoption of a flesh-diet and the habits of a hunter in order to obtain it.
Page 350 - Plants, partaking with animals the phenomena of life and death, health and sickness, not unnaturally have some kind of soul ascribed to them. In fact, the notion of a vegetable soul, common to plants and to the higher organisms possessing an animal soul in addition, was familiar to mediaeval philosophy, and is not yet forgotten by naturalists.
Page 159 - Over a vast space of the now desert country, east of the Indus, traces of ancient river-beds testify to the gradual desiccation of a once fertile region ; and throughout the deltaic flats of the Indus may still be seen old channels which once conducted its waters to the Rann of Cutch, giving life and prosperity to the past cities of the delta, which have left no living records of the countless generations that once inhabited them.
Page 141 - Concurrently with the end of the Cretaceous or with the beginning of the Eocene, an era of earth-movements set in which materially altered the old geography of the Indian region. Two great events of geodynamics stand out prominently in these readjustments : one the breaking up of the old Gondwana continent by the submergence of large segments of it underneath the sea, the other the uplift of the geosynclinal tract of sea deposits to the north into the lofty chain of .the Himalayas

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