“Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences, whilst the historian of man is constantly at fault as to dates and even the sequence of events, to say nothing of the contradicting statements which he is forced to reconcile.” MenScienceExistenceEventsFaultsStatementsWitnessHistorianFossilsSequenceReconcileBurialContradictingSequence Of Events Author:Roderick Murchison
“We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.” IfsShouldScienceForceNatureExistenceErrorsAncientOperationsComparison Book:Siluria: the history of the oldest known rocks containing organic remains Source: Siluria: the history of the oldest known rocks containing organic remains
