All Hugh Miller Quotes
- The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young men engaged in… Among
- Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology… Added
- The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his happy illustration-does now… Advance
- The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do not extend into… Age
- Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like… Age
- No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be,… Alternative
- That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is… According
- Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with… All
- Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study. Fresh
- It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. Best
- It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and disappears, life fruit… Apples
- The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the existence… Acted
- But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss beneath, where all… Abyss
- Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. Breakup
- All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development. All
- The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There has no repetition… Dynasties
- But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to… Advice
- Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the… Beyond
- Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this… Beast
- They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I was at times… Dark
- Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose… Abyss