Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and by consequence our Pow….

The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and convulsio….

The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste for National an….

The days of the Mosaic creation are not to be strictly construed as implying the same length of time which is at present occupied by a single revolut….

The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry..

To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare, and incessant ca….

No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire seri….

Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are ever f….

With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the….

It is demonstrable from Geology that there was a period when no organic beings had existence: these organic beings must therefore have had a beginnin….

Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be view….

Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understo….