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From Quotes by Charles Lyell
- Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is usually commenced from,…
- Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
- There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to…
- [My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views…
- 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 is…
- When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be reduced to arithmetical…
- 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 higher mammalia bordering…
- 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…
- In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient…
- Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of…
- So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population…
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