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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…
• Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
• Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it…
• Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not…
• Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes,…
• There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from…
• [My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration…
• Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose…
• When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be…
• 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…
• I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to…
• 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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