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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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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
— Joseph Addison
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The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by…
— James Buchan
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if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural…
— John L. Dagg
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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the…
— Edmund Burke
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The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his…
— Joseph Conrad
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Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you…
— Ernest Holmes
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He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is…
— Isaac Newton
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It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and…
— Sigmund Freud
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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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Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its…
— John Owen
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