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Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology is simply the key by which myriads of these signs, hitherto indecipherable, can be unlocked and perused, and thus a new province added to the poetical domain.
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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 to his happy illustration—does not now stand alone. Instead of one, we see many footprints, each in turn in advance of the print behind it, and on a higher level.
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That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.
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The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young men engaged in the subordinate departments of trade and the law. And the harm thus considerable in amount must be necessarily more than considerable in degree. For it invariably happens, that when persons in these walks become materialists, they become turbulent subjects and bad men.
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Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The compliant serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it.
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The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There has no repetition of the dynasty of the fish, of the reptile, of the mammal. The dynasty of the future is to have glorified man for its inhabitant; but it is to be the dynasty-"the kingdom"-not of glorified man made in the image of God, but of God himself in the form man.
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Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with its annals, possesses its realms of dim and shadowy fields, in which troops of fancies already walk like disembodied ghosts in the old fields of Elysium, and which bid fair to be quite dark and uncertain enough for all the purposes of poesy for centuries to come.
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The wonders of geology exercise every faculty of the mind - reason, memory, imagination...
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No man who enters the geological field in quest of the wonderful need pass, in pursuit of his object, from the true to the fictitious.
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All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species,—of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.
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Exit is the portion of a means of egress which is separated from all other spaces of the building or structure by construction or equipment as required in this subpart to provide a protected way to travel to the exit discharge.
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Do not seek happiness in what is misnamed pleasure; seek it rather in what is termed study.
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Every individual, whatever its species or order, begins and increases until it attains to its state of fullest development, under certain fixed laws, and in consequence of their operation.
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The different degrees of entireness in which, the geologist finds his organic remains depend much less on their age than on the nature of the rock in which they occur...
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They are fraught with strange meaning, these footprints of Connecticut.
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The night comes on, and the shadows of the woods and rocks deepen: there are uncouth sounds along the beach and in the forest; and new monsters of yet stranger shape are dimly discovered moving amid the uncertain gloom.
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Day after day has there been a succession of earthquake shocks, that, as the plutonic paroxysm increases in intensity, become stronger and more frequent, and the mountain-waves roll outwards in ever-widening circles, to rise and fall in distant and solitary seas, or to break in long lines of foam on nameless islands unknown to the geographer.
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It has been well remarked that that writer would be equally in danger or error who would assign very abstruse motives for the conduct of great bodies of men, or very obvious causes for the great phenomena of nature.
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Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness.
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There are few theologians worthy of the name who now hold that the deductions of the geologists regarding the earth's antiquity are at variance with the statements of Scripture respecting its first creation, and subsequent preparation for man.
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Hugh Miller
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Born:
October 10, 1802
Died:
December 24, 1856
(aged 54)
Bio:
Hugh Miller was a self-taught Scottish geologist and writer, folklorist and an evangelical Christian.
Known for:
The Old Red Sandstone (1841)
The Testimony of the Rocks
My Schools and Schoolmasters (1852)
First Impressions of England and Its People (1847)
The Footprints of the Creator (1849)
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