"No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it……" — Hugh Miller
"No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be, through the miracle of creation. From the evidence furnished by these rocks we are shut down either to belief in miracle, or to something else infinitely harder of reception, and as thoroughly unsupported by testimony as it is contrary to experience. Hume is at length answered by the severe truths of the stony science."
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21 Quotes by Hugh Miller
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The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class…
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Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the…
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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…
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The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us:…
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Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it.…
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That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in…
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Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and…
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Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.
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It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.
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It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it…
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The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled…
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But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into…
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