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• William Ernest Henley:

  There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practi

• William Ernest Henley:

  Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be

• Georges Cuvier:

  Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in

• Georges Cuvier:

  The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even c

• Georges Cuvier:

  The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, t

• Georges Cuvier:

  The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, no

• Georges Cuvier:

  The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells

• Georges Cuvier:

  Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a

• Georges Cuvier:

  My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land anima

• Georges Cuvier:

  Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the thr