Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose… — 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
Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of… — 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… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history. — 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… — 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… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was sufficient, and species may have… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often… — 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… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes,… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it… — 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
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