The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It is an endless fold, an endless band, the common possession of two sciences. It is geological in origin,… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that earth regarded as an individual. Astronomy is the oldest of the sciences, while Geology is… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It is an… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
“All that comes above the surface [of the globe] lies within the province of Geography; all that comes below that surface lies inside the… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
Far be it from me to suggest that geologists should be reckless in their drafts upon the bank of Time; but nothing whatever is… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister,… — Charles Lapworth Copy Share Image
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