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Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is…
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Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
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Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it…
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Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not…
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Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes,…
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There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from…
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[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration…
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Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose…
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When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be…
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So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the…
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I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to…
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The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical…
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Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose…
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The…
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It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce…
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A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed…
— George Orwell
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Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is…
— Victor Hugo
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The context of the general teachings is one of talking to a sentient being who is experiencing uninterrupted bewilderment – one thought…
— Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
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The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await…
— Andrew Jackson
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When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether…
— Laozi
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There never was another like you in this world. God throws the mold away every time he makes a man [or woman]...…
— Hugh B. Brown
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While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter,…
— Emile Durkheim
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Over the course of the millennia, all these ancestors in your tree, generation upon generation, have come down to this moment in…
— Laurence Overmire
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered…
— Oscar Wilde
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