metamorphist

— I would you did but see what I have seene in these Conntries, as concerning the deadly hatreds, contentions & differensions of Luther has of-fspring: as of the Muntzerans, Anabaptists, Adamists, […] Metamorphists, Iudaists, Neutersacramentaries, Image-breakers, […], & of such like: al which have sucked their errours out of the dregges of Luthers doctrine, and yet forsooth will be found Protestants all.

— Concerning the progeny of the transfigured sinners, Muslim scholars split into two groups, which Cook figuratively designated as "creationists" and "metamorphists.” The former held that swine and monkeys were created in the form they exist today, whereas the latter believed that their contemporary apes and swine were the progeny of the transfigured sinners.

— I am inclined to hold that there is a wide segment of truth embodied in the views of the metamorphists; but there seems to be also a segment of truth on the other side ; and so I must likewise hold with their antagonists, that there existed long periods in the history of the earth in which there obtained conditions of things entirely different from any which obtain now, —periods during which life, either animal or vegetable, could not have existed on our planet; and further, that the sedimentary rocks of this early age may have dreived, even in the forming, a constitution and texture which, in present circumstances, sedimentary rocks cannot receive.

— Various grades of metamorphist up to staurolite-sillimanite rocks, are present in the formation.

— The sun was the grand Proteus, the universal metamorphist.

— Marx was a metamorphist, as well as a realist. He believed social relations pass through a series of material forms before becoming social relations once more.

— The deductions, in the works of Professor Keilhau, with which I have become acquainted since the publication of the first part of this work; the passages of the granite, which this geologist points out, to the stratified forms, considered together with the obscurity in which he confesses that the origin of the great mass of crystalline rocks is still involved, can only strengthen me in the opinion, that the theory of an igneous stratification of crystalline schists offers the only guide which can direct the geologist throught the labyrinth of difficulties with which a too limited interpretation of the general principle of stratification had encircled science, leaving it entirely to the speculations of the metamorphist geologists.