“We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the earth's greatest wonder, MAN, can be set aside, or its seemingly necessary result withheld for a moment. When Mr. Lyell finds, as a witty friend lately reported that there had been found, a silver-spoon in grauwacke, or a locomotive engine in mica-schist, then, but not sooner, shall we enrol ourselves disciples of the Cyclical Theory of Geological formations.” MenHas BeensMomentsEarthScienceFoundResultsExistenceWonderProgressCreationTheoryDevelopmentEvidenceWittySilverProgressiveEnginesDiscipleFormationSpoonsGeologyOrganisedLocomotivesSilver Spoons Author:George Julius Poulett Scrope
“Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having occurred in the physical state of the earth's surface.” StatesEarthScienceRevolutionEvidenceExtraordinarySurfaceViolentExplanationCatastropheRecourseSuppositionGeologist Author:George Julius Poulett Scrope