...applies equally well here. In the preface to the third edition of his mineralogy, in 1850, he says that "To change is always seeming fickleness. But not to...of science is worse; it is persistence in error." The first edition of the tieulutin (1862) clearly teaches the doctrine of special creation for the...

...here was so characteristic of the author's attitude of mind to scientific truth in general. " ' . . . To change is always seeming fickleness. But not to...notwithstanding the former adoption of what has been called the naturalhistory system, and the pledge to its support given by the author, in supplying it with a Latin...

...classification and the Latin binomial nomenclature of the former editions, he wrote in the preface: "To change is always seeming fickleness. But not to...of science is worse; it is persistence in error." He said to me, in speaking of the changes introduced in the third edition of the Manual of Geology,...

...classification and the I^atin binomial nomenclature of the former editions, he wrote in the preface : "To change is always seeming fickleness. But not to...of science is worse; it is persistence in error." He said to me. in speaking of the changes introduced in the third edition of the "Manual of Geology"...

...• This edition, failing to find a publisher in New York, was printed at the expense of the author. relations of compounds; and philosophy has thrown...advance of science is worse; it is persistence in error; und, therefore, notwithstanding the former adoption of what has been called the Natural History System,...

...There is always a strong reaction against new ideas. Dana in 1850 wrote in the preface to his book: ，To change is always seeming fickleness. But not...advance of science is worse; it is persistence in error.一， One of the arguments against the chemical classification was the fact that it grouped...