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> [The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste for National and Local Antiquities. Geology gratifies a larger taste of this kind; it inquires…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-buckland/the-human-mind-has-a-natural-tendency-to-explore-what-has-passed-in/)

[William Buckland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-buckland/)

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> [With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the human race; the evidence of all facts that have yet been established in Geology coincides…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-buckland/with-respect-to-those-points-on-which-the-declaration-of-scripture-is/)

[William Buckland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-buckland/)

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## Other authors on Antiquity

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- [Ralph Waldo Emerson 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiquity/ralph-waldo-emerson/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-confucius-24951.jpg) Confucius 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antiquity/confucius/)

## More by William Buckland

> [The days of the Mosaic creation are not to be strictly construed as implying the same length of time which is at present occupied…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-buckland/the-days-of-the-mosaic-creation-are-not-to-be-strictly-construed-as/)

[William Buckland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-buckland/)

> [The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-buckland/the-successive-series-of-stratified-formations-are-piled-on-one/)

[William Buckland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-buckland/)

> [ The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... \[and\] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-buckland/the-field-of-the-geologist-s-inquiry-is-the-globe-itself-and-it-is/)

[William Buckland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-buckland/)

> [No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-buckland/no-conclusion-is-more-fully-established-than-the-important-fact-of/)

[William Buckland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-buckland/)

> [The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-buckland/the-human-mind-has-a-natural-tendency-to-explore-what-has-passed-in/)

[William Buckland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-buckland/)

> [ Shall it any longer be said that a science \[geology\], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-buckland/shall-it-any-longer-be-said-that-a-science-geology-which-unfolds-such/)

[William Buckland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-buckland/)

> [To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-buckland/to-the-mind-which-looks-not-to-general-results-in-the-economy-of/)

[William Buckland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-buckland/)

> [Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-buckland/geology-holds-the-keys-of-one-of-the-kingdoms-of-nature-and-it-cannot/)

[William Buckland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-buckland/)

> [Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are ever filled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-buckland/thus-the-great-drama-of-universal-life-is-perpetually-sustained-and/)

[William Buckland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-buckland/)

> [It is demonstrable from Geology that there was a period when no organic beings had existence: these organic beings must therefore have had a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-buckland/it-is-demonstrable-from-geology-that-there-was-a-period-when-no/)

[William Buckland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-buckland/)

> [Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-buckland/geology-has-shared-the-fate-of-other-infant-sciences-in-being-for-a/)

[William Buckland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-buckland/)

> [With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-buckland/with-respect-to-those-points-on-which-the-declaration-of-scripture-is/)

[William Buckland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-buckland/)

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