Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to bl…

Charles Lyell
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Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change. ✨ Sir Charles Lyell (1837). Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface are Referable to Causes Now in Operation, p.305
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