"The primary rocks, ... I regard as the……" — Hugh Miller
"The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the existence of a sea, with the necessary denuding agencies,-waves and currents,-and, in consequence, of deposition also; but in which the internal heat acted so near the surface, that whatever was deposited came, matter of course, to be metamorphosed into semi-plutonic forms, that retained only the stratification."
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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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No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other…
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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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But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into…
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