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Quotation from Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell
“Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than this assumption of the discordance between the ancient and existing causes of change.”
Principles of Geology, Book I, Ch. XIII (Ninth edition (New York: D. Appleton, 1854), Project Gutenberg text)
Lyell's judgment on the catastrophist assumption, near the end of Book I.
Citation: "Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than this assumption of the discordance between the ancient and existing causes of change." — Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, Book I, Ch. XIII (Ninth edition (New York: D. Appleton, 1854), Project Gutenberg text). (id lyell-principles-of-geology-q3)
Portrait: PSM V01 D242 and V20 D610 Charles Lyell, Unknown engraver, Public domain.
