"But whatever its defects, the classification of Linnæus was the first attempt at grouping animals together according …"

"The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the comm…"

"The crust of our earth is a great cemetery, where the rocks are tombstones on which the buried dead have written thei…"

"The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature …"

"Foldings of the earth's crust, low hills, extensive plains, mountain-chains and narrow valleys, broad table-lands and…"

"The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can ap…"

"The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all o…"

"Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say …"

"In the subsequent meetings of the society, the geologist William Barton Rogers would skillfully dismantle most of the…"

"There, at the table's further end I see In his old place our Poet's vis-à-vis, The great PROFESSOR, strong, broad-sho…"