"Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history."
— Geology

January 1, 1970

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Sir Charles Lyell (1830), in: Victor Shea, William Whitla Essays and Reviews: The 1860 Text and Its Reading, University of Virginia Press, 2000, p. 88.