In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of the organic world & its connection with the time past & with Man; that it involves the question… — 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
