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I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books.

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Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space.

Exhibits, Research, Space, Time, Wells
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The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of nature, such as they interpreted it.

Contrary, Law, Ocean, Therein, Wonder, Yore

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.

Apparent, Equal, Links, Naturalists, Sea, Ties

. . . It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately deep water. . . . That these littoral mollusks indicate by their presence on both sides of the Atlantic, some ancient continuity or contiguity of coast-line is what I firmly believe.

Believe, Deep Water, Fact, Inhabitants, Ocean, Species

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

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In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will come when the author of a view shall be set aside, and the view only taken cognizance of. This will be the millennium of Science.

Aside, Duty, Ideas, Independent, Men, Taken
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