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“The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.”

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Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the…

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Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time…

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My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory…

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Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial…

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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader…

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But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient…

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It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the…

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To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to make reason the arbiter and supreme guide of public opinion; that is the essential goal of the sciences; that is how science will contribute to the advancement of civilization, and that is what deserves protection of governments who…

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It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to ascertain, with the utmost certainty, that our earth has not always been covered over by the same external crust, because we are thoroughly assured that the organized bodies to which these fossil remains belong must…

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The works which this man [Joseph Banks] leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent;…

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In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong,…

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It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the same manner as it is found easy to explain past events in political history, by an acquaintance with the passions and intrigues of the present day. But we shall presently see that unfortunately this is…

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