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• During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one…
• Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses…
• Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins.
• Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a…
• We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.
• The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation…
• The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of…

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