APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
The coal accumulated upon the area covered by one ol the great forests of the carboniferous epoch would, imeourse of time, have been wasted away by toe small but eoiistant. near ami Lear of rain and streams, bad the land which suported it remained at tins same level, or been gradually raised to a greater elevation. And, no doubt, its much coal as now exists has been destroyed, alter iLs formation, jn this way. ' -X- -X- -x- * Once more, an invariably-recurring lesson of geological history, at whatever point to the study is take up; the lesson of the almost infinite slowness in tin* modification of living iorms. The Lucs of the pedigrees of living things break off almost before they b.gio io com ergo.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1932, Page 1
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127APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1932, Page 1
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