"Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator."
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As quoted in The Age of the World : Moses to Darwin (1959) by Francis C. Haber, p. 221
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