Naturally such a chart must be interpreted by comparison with the standards of mean measurements gathered at successive ages from a large number of different children.
In the illustrations facing this page we have portraits of the same person taken at successive ages (Figs.
And yet, as we have seen, it is precisely such a charge as this that Spencer and Huxley bring against the modern phase of the doctrine of successive ages based on the succession of life idea.
Hence arises its human history, the narrative of its rise, climax, and decline in successive ages.
The poet uses the world as he knows it, and reflects in successive ages of literature the changing phases of civilization.
Sir Matthew Hale and sir Thomas Browne are eminent authors; and there is something in such men, that in a manner renders them the contemporaries of all times, the living acquaintance of successive ages of the world.
The familiar idea of world-enveloping strata as representingsuccessive ages was not discarded; but instead of Werner's successive ages of limestone making, sandstone making, etc.
All this means that many facts regarding the position of the strata as well as regarding their consolidation contradict the theory of successive ages.
In the earlier days of the theory of successive ages it was taught that only certain kinds of fossils were to be found at the bottom of the series, or next to the Primitive or Archæan.
The bare possibility that the bones of man and of animals that long preceded him had been swept together into the eaves in successive ages, and in some mysterious way intermingled there, was clung to by the conservatives as a last refuge.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "successive ages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
