Principles of Geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface by reference to causes now in operation by Charles Lyell

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Principles of Geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface by reference to causes now in operation

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1830-1833

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Amid all the revolutions of the globe the economy of Nature has been uniform, and her laws are the only things that have resisted the general movement. The rivers and the rocks, the seas and the continents have been changed in all their part; but the laws which direct those changes, and the rules to which they are subject, have remained invariably the same.

-Playfair, "Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory," 374

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Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet.

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