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…the tar which used to boil in it to the heat, like resin in a fagot of moss-fir, was as strange a mixture as ever yet bubbled in witches’ caldron—blood of pterodactyle & grease of ichthyosaur…
—Hugh Miller, MY SCHOOLS & SCHOOLMASTERS (1854) – also on @gutenberg_org
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I picked up a nodular mass of blue limestone, and laid it open by a stroke of the hammer. Wonderful to relate, it contained inside a beautifully finished piece of sculpture…
—Hugh Miller, THE OLD RED SANDSTONE (1841)
available as a free ebook on @gutenberg_org
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Fossil hunter, folklorist, evangelist, stonemason, editor, social justice campaigner, & geologist, Hugh Miller (1802–1856) – born #OTD, 10 Oct – should be remembered in the company of Carlyle, Ruskin, Matthew Arnold & JS Mill as one of the leading moral & social thinkers of the 19th centuries
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