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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

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we must suppose all the covering of moss and heath and wood to be torn away from the sides of the mountains, and the green mantle that lies near their feet to be lifted up;
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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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Yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder.
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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