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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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A good place to start is with the kids ... One of the great founding principles of our country was that children…
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First, an angel is spiritually present at whatever place in physical space happens to be occupied by the body on which it…
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In 1891, during the Presidency of William Henry Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], electric lights were first installed in the White House, the residence…
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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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A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant…
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My son Cooper has just turned ten and the sarcasm fairy has already started to take up residence inside his body. Not…
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If the constitutional right to keep and bear arms is to mean anything, it must, as a general matter, permit a person…
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This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have…
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Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning,…
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There's periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years . .…
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