Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Babbage , Charles (1837), The ninth Bridgewater treatise, a fragment, Retrieved on 2011-12-13Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: geology Memes
13 DEC 2011
Evidence in Geology is Overwhelming
The gradual advance of Geology, during the last twenty years, to the dignity of a science, has arisen from the laborious and extensive collection of facts, and from the enlightened spirit in which the inductions founded on those facts have been deduced and discussed. To those who are unacquainted with this science, or indeed to any person not deeply versed in the history of this and kindred subjects, it is impossible to convey a just impression of the nature of that evidence by which a multit...In the layers of geological strata are written more evidence than any human witness could bare.