"Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of……" — Charles Lyell
"Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes, we are authorized to regard them as part of the present order of Nature."
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37 Quotes by Charles Lyell
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Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of…
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Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
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Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of…
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Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many…
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There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable…
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[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in…
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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…
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When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent,…
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So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence…
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I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is…
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The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in…
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Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it…
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