“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
“The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in the hands of man; for the geological record is the work of God.” MenCharacterHandsScienceOrderHistoryRecordsGenerationsLegends Author:Roderick Murchison
