In the history of mankind no sharp line can be drawn between the events that are happening now or have happened within the last few generations, and those that took place long ago, and which are sometimes, though inaccurately, spoken of as historical. Every people is enacting its history today just as fully as it did many centuries ago.


Geology, Part I, Chapter II (p. 10)


In the history of mankind no sharp line can be drawn between the events that are happening now or have happened within the last few generations, and...

In the history of mankind no sharp line can be drawn between the events that are happening now or have happened within the last few generations, and...

In the history of mankind no sharp line can be drawn between the events that are happening now or have happened within the last few generations, and...

In the history of mankind no sharp line can be drawn between the events that are happening now or have happened within the last few generations, and...