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The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and…

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Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God,…
Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them,…
Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our…
It is demonstrable from Geology that there was a period when no organic beings had existence: these organic beings must therefore have…
The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the…
The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar:…
The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.
With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low…
Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are…
To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene…
The days of the Mosaic creation are not to be strictly construed as implying the same length of time which is at…
No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout…

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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in… — Abraham Lincoln
The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the… — William Buckland
It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace… — Alexander Hamilton
Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress… — Joan Didion
In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have… — Walter Benjamin
Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music — Thom Yorke
Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present… — Thomas George Bonney
No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It… — Daniel O'Connell
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and… — Unknown Author
Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the… — John Quincy Adams

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