Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as. … - Charles Lapworth

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I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.

Charles Lapworth

Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as. . . [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.

Geology, Higher, Matters, Men, Science, Time

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Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology, gave it the means.

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Uniformity and Evolution are one.

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Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that earth regarded as an individual. Astronomy is the oldest of the sciences, while Geology is one of the newest. But the two sciences have this in common, that to both are granted a magnificence of outlook, and an immensity of grasp denied to all the rest.

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The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It is an endless fold, an endless band, the common possession of two sciences. It is geological in origin, geographical in effect. It is the wedding ring of geology and geography, uniting them at once and for ever in indissoluble union.

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Far be it from me to suggest that geologists should be reckless in their drafts upon the bank of Time; but nothing whatever is gained, and very much is lost, by persistent niggardliness in this direction.

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