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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…
• 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…
• In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to…
• 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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