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In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason Ã¡ priori…

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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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