Whatever be the power which has for hundreds of times repeopled the Earth with tribes of plants & animals as fast as they became extinct, that power I have always held is still in full & unabated action as is its antagonist or destructive power.


In: Leonard G. Wilson (ed.), Sir Charles Lyell's Scientific Journals on the Species Question - Journal II, July 10, 1856 (p. 124)

Charles Lyell Quotes

Whatever be the power which has for hundreds of times repeopled the Earth with tribes of plants & animals as fast as they became extinct, that power...

Whatever be the power which has for hundreds of times repeopled the Earth with tribes of plants & animals as fast as they became extinct, that power...

Whatever be the power which has for hundreds of times repeopled the Earth with tribes of plants & animals as fast as they became extinct, that power...

Whatever be the power which has for hundreds of times repeopled the Earth with tribes of plants & animals as fast as they became extinct, that power...