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I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.

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Roderick Murchison

The order of. . . successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in the hands of man; for the geological record is the work of God.

Character, Clearly, Generations, Geological, Men, Science
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Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences, whilst the historian of man is constantly at fault as to dates and even the sequence of events, to say nothing of the contradicting statements which he is forced to reconcile.

Constantly, Events, Men, Nothing, Placed, Science

Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins.

Geography, Geology, Physical, Science, Twins

We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.

Ancient, Errors, Existing, Nature, Operations, Science

During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one condition to another, whole races of animals-each group adapted to the physical conditions in which they lived-were successively created and exterminated.

Animal, Condition, Globe, Long, Race, Science

Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they present:- so various yet so uniform-so vast yet so connected. In thus tracing back to the most remote periods in the physical history of our continents, one system of operations, as the means by which many complex formations have been successively produced, the mind becomes impressed with the singleness of nature's laws; and in this respect, at least, geology is hardly inferior in simplicity to astronomy.

Combining, Deposits, Mean, Nature, Science, System
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