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The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.

George Julius Poulett Scrope

The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to the ear of the student of Nature seems echoed from every part of her works, is—Time!—Time!—Time!

George Julius Poulett Scrope

As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to imagine, it answers for the time very well as an explanation; that is, it stops further inquiry. But it also has had the disadvantage of effectually stopping the advance of science, by involving it in obscurity and confusion.

George Julius Poulett Scrope

Geology has for its business a knowledge of the processes which are in continual or occasional operation within the limits of our planet, and the application of these laws to explain the appearances discovered by our Geognostical researches, so as from these materials to deduce conclusions as to the past history of the globe.

George Julius Poulett Scrope

George Julius Poulett Scrope

George Julius Poulett Scrope

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Born: March 10, 1797

Died: January 19, 1876 (aged 78)

Bio: George Julius Poulett Scrope was an English geologist and political economist as well as a magistrate for Stroud in Gloucestershire.

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