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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lyell/in-the-course-of-this-short-tour-i-became-convinced-that-we-must-turn/)

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## More by Charles Lyell

> [It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lyell/it-was-a-profound-saying-of-wilhelm-humboldt-that-man-is-man-only-by/)

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> [In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lyell/in-reply-i-can-only-plead-that-a-discovery-which-seems-to-contradict/)

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> [Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lyell/such-discoveries-have-led-me-and-other-geologists-to-reconsider-the/)

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> [Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is usually commenced…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lyell/man-whose-organization-is-regarded-as-the-highest-departs-from-the/)

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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lyell/probably-there-was-a-beginning-it-is-a-metaphysical-question-worthy-a/)

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> [I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lyell/i-may-conclude-this-chapter-by-quoting-a-saying-of-professor-agassiz/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lyell/amidst-the-vicissitudes-of-the-earth-s-surface-species-cannot-be/)

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> [It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lyell/it-must-have-appeared-almost-as-improbable-to-the-earlier-geologists/)

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> [Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not yet occupied…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lyell/millions-of-our-race-are-now-supported-by-lands-situated-where-deep/)

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> [So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lyell/so-far-therefore-as-we-can-draw-safe-conclusions-from-a-single/)

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> [There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lyell/there-is-no-foundation-in-geological-facts-for-the-popular-theory-of/)

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> [That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lyell/that-ere-long-now-that-curiosity-has-been-so-much-excited-on-this/)

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> [Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lyell/hitherto-no-rival-hypothesis-has-been-proposed-as-a-substitute-for/)

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> [The present is the key to the past](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lyell/the-present-is-the-key-to-the-past/)

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> ['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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-lyell/time-s-noblest-offspring-is-the-last-this-line-of-bishop-berkeley-s/)

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