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The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to…
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It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet…
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We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent…
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The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.
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Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or…
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As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to…
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Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or…
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The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the…
— Rupert Sheldrake
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At night the sky was very near, sprawled in star smoke and gamma cataclysms, but she didn't see it the way she…
— Don DeLillo
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Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an…
— Charles Darwin
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And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal,…
— James Agee
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This is when Money will be dethroned! Only when there will not be many people left, when most of them will save…
— Sorin Cerin
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Even if predictable, unfortunately certain natural disasters are and remain unavoidable and invincible.
— Jean-Paul Malfatti
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