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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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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how…
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You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web…
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Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long,…
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Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
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Comparatively, we are so much quicker to return favors and to pay our debts to mortals - and we should be responsive…
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To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in…
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And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of…
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There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans,…
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Christ is our best friend, and ere long will be our only friend. I pray God with all my heart that I…
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Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do -…
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Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of…
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