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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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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
— Jane Austen
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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has…
— Honore de Balzac
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During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the…
— Bernard Baruch
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Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.
— Unknown Author
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I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have…
— Louis Agassiz
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The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last…
— Ernst Haeckel
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
— William James
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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
— Jean Rhys
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Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.
— Roger Caras
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The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing…
— Baron d'Holbach
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I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music,…
— Billie Holiday
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with…
— Joseph Addison
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