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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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The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to…
— Fritjof Capra
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The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them,…
— Thomas Huxley
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The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed…
— Sigmund Freud
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I take it that 'gentleman' is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others; but when we speak…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards…
— Ananda Coomaraswamy
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The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is…
— George MacDonald
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Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past,…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
— D. H. Lawrence
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...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.
— Robert Penn Warren
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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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