"The human mind has a natural tendency to……" — William Buckland
"The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste for National and Local Antiquities. Geology gratifies a larger taste of this kind; it inquires into what may appropriately be termed the Antiquities of the Globe itself, and collects and deciphers what may be considered as the monuments and medals of its remoter eras."
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William Buckland
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12 Quotes by William Buckland
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Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes…
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Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so…
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Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which…
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It is demonstrable from Geology that there was a period when no organic beings had existence: these organic beings must…
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The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments…
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The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.
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With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting…
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Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same…
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To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present…
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The days of the Mosaic creation are not to be strictly construed as implying the same length of time which…
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No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human…
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