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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…
• Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when…
• The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his…
• The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do…
• Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in…
• No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They…
• That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale…
• Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an…
• Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.
• It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.
• It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and…
• 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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