To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare, and incessant carnage: but the more enlarged view, while it regards individuals in their conjoint… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
The days of the Mosaic creation are not to be strictly construed as implying the same length of time which is at present occupied… — William Buckland Copy Share
The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry. — William Buckland Copy Share
The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions… — William Buckland Copy Share
No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire… — William Buckland Copy Share
The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the… — William Buckland Copy Share
Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably… — William Buckland Copy Share
To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual… — William Buckland Copy Share
Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and… — William Buckland Copy Share
Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are ever filled… — William Buckland Copy Share
It is demonstrable from Geology that there was a period when no organic beings had existence: these organic beings must therefore have had a… — William Buckland Copy Share
Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully… — William Buckland Copy Share
With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of… — William Buckland Copy Share
