"We cannot see how the evidence afforded by……" — George Julius Poulett Scrope
"We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the earth's greatest wonder, MAN, can be set aside, or its seemingly necessary result withheld for a moment. When Mr. Lyell finds, as a witty friend lately reported that there had been found, a silver-spoon in grauwacke, or a locomotive engine in mica-schist, then, but not sooner, shall we enrol ourselves disciples of the Cyclical Theory of Geological formations."
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George Julius Poulett Scrope
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The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of…
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It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation,…
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The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.
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Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes,…
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