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• Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to…
• The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements…
• [To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the…
• To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that…
• Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things…
• Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had…
• The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.

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