"To the mind which looks not to general……" — William Buckland
"To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare, and incessant carnage: but the more enlarged view, while it regards individuals in their conjoint relations to the general benefit of their own species, and that of other species with which they are associated in the great family of Nature, resolves each apparent case of individual evil, into an example of subserviency to universal good."
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William Buckland
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12 Quotes by William Buckland
William Buckland has 12 quotes on this site.
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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 human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it…
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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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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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