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.


Principles of Geology (1830–3), Vol. 3, 2–3


Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than...[the] assumption of the discordance...

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than...[the] assumption of the discordance...

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than...[the] assumption of the discordance...

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than...[the] assumption of the discordance...