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The history of the earth find[s] its consummation, and its interpreter, and its significance, in man.

Joseph LeConte

Man must be set off not only against the animal kingdom, but against the whole of Nature besides, as an equivalent: Nature the book — the revelation — and man the interpreter.

Joseph LeConte

We have defined geology as the history of the evolution of the earth. Evolution, therefore, is the central idea of geology. It is this idea alone which makes geology a distinct science.

Joseph LeConte

Joseph LeConte

Joseph LeConte

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Born: February 26, 1823

Died: July 6, 1901 (aged 78)

Bio: Joseph Le Conte was a physician, geologist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and early California conservationist.

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Elements of geology
The Race Problem in the South (1892)

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