It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin of mountains, as it must to the first astronomers, that the fall of an apple should… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our study and contemplation of the earth, and the laws which govern its animate productions, ought… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is usually commenced… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant. — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not yet occupied… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
