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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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In green old gardens, hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife, Here I have leisure to breathe and move,…
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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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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown…
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