In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to see in perfection the oldest monuments of the earth's history, so far at least as relates to its… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or… — Charles Lyell Copy Share
'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation. — Charles Lyell Copy Share
