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World-life; or, Comparative geology (1883)
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Could our vision be unsealed, we should behold the infinite firmament dotted with meteors hurrying to and fro, as snow-flakes in the wildest wintry storm.
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That mysterious visitant which paints its luminous streak along the evening sky - sudden, brilliant, but evanescent.
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Out from the depths of space - beyond the clouds - beyond the atmosphere - from a granary of material germs which stock the empire of the blue sky, comes a perpetual but invisible rain of material atoms - like the evening dew, emerging from the transparency of space into a state of growing visibility.
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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
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Born:
December 31, 1824
Died:
February 19, 1891
(aged 66)
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