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During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one condition to another, whole races of animals—each group adapted to the physical conditions in which they lived—were successively created and exterminated.

Roderick Murchison

Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences, whilst the historian of man is constantly at fault as to dates and even the sequence of events, to say nothing of the contradicting statements which he is forced to reconcile.

Roderick Murchison

The order of...successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in the hands of man; for the geological record is the work of God.

Roderick Murchison

Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins.

Roderick Murchison

We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.

Roderick Murchison

Roderick Murchison

Roderick Murchison

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Born: February 22, 1792

Died: October 22, 1871 (aged 79)

Bio: Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet was a Scottish geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian system.

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