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It is the unseen which most attracts us. Therefore, in all times men have speculated as to the contents of the nether earth. Its crevices and caverns afford in their dark recesses a world which the imagination can people at its will.

Nathaniel Shaler

The greater part of the facts [with] which geologists have to deal possess for the general public a recondite character. They concern things which are not within the limits of familiar experience. In treating of them, the science uses a language of its own, an argot as special as that of the anatomist or the metaphysician.

Nathaniel Shaler

Nathaniel Shaler

Nathaniel Shaler

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Born: February 20, 1841

Died: April 10, 1906 (aged 65)

Bio: Nathaniel Southgate Shaler was an American paleontologist and geologist who wrote extensively on the theological and scientific implications of the theory of evolution.

Known for:

Nature and man in America (1891)
A first book in geology (1894)
Kentucky, a Pioneer Commonwealth (1884)

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