"The earth's becoming at a particular period the……" — Charles Lyell
"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 study and contemplation of the earth, and the laws which govern its animate productions, ought no more to be considered in the light of a disturbance or deviation from the system, than the discovery of the satellites of Jupiter should be regarded as a physical event in the history of those heavenly bodies, however influential they may have become from that time in advancing the progress of sound philosophy among men."
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Charles Lyell
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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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Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of…
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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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Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it…
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