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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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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many…
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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery,…
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage…
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority,…
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Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is…
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On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what…
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