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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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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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Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below,…
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Meditation means: remain as relaxed as you are in deep sleep and yet alert. Keep awareness there; let thoughts disappear but awareness…
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In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is…
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The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation…
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By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another,…
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It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences…
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It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice of the…
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These ceremonies which are used in the administration of the Sacraments, each of which we receive as delivered and entrusted to us…
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How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power.…
— Andre Bazin
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