Charles Lyell Quote

For many years after the promulgation of Lamarck's doctrine of progressive development, geologists were much occupied with the question whether the past changes in the animate and inanimate world were brought about by sudden and paroxysmal action, or gradually and continuously by causes differing neither in kind nor degree from those now in operation.

Ch.21, p. 407 - The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man (1863)

For many years after the promulgation of Lamarck's doctrine of progressive development, geologists were much occupied with the question whether the...

For many years after the promulgation of Lamarck's doctrine of progressive development, geologists were much occupied with the question whether the...

For many years after the promulgation of Lamarck's doctrine of progressive development, geologists were much occupied with the question whether the...

For many years after the promulgation of Lamarck's doctrine of progressive development, geologists were much occupied with the question whether the...