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The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young…
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Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when…
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The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his…
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The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do…
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Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in…
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No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They…
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That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale…
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Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an…
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Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.
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It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.
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It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and…
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The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to…
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Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when…
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Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.
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After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of…
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I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and…
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'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment…
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I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from…
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For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today,…
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This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible…
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