defectiveness of the Monuments greater in Proportion to their Antiquity.
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell
When we study, therefore, the geological records of the earth and its inhabitants, we find, as in human history, the defectiveness and obscurity of the monuments always increasing the remoter the era to which we refer, and the difficulty of determining the true chronological relations of rocks is more and more enhanced, especially when we are comparing those which were formed simultaneously in very distant regions of the globe.
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell
"I endeavoured to conform in my religious instruction to the letter and spirit of the Holy Scriptures, and could not avoid alluding to the defectiveness and emptiness of the synagogue ceremonial, as taught in the Talmud and the Jewish code 'Shulchan Aruch.
"Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ"
Rev. A. Bernstein, B.D.