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“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.”

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George Julius Poulett Scrope

George Julius Poulett Scrope was a prominent British geologist born on March 10, 1797, and died on January 19, 1876. He made significant contributions to the field of geology, particularly in the areas of petrology and mineralogy. more

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