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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 may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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Our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it.
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