The Cooling Globe: Or the Mechanics of Geology (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The two memoirs herewith presented to scholars and thinkers, and intended to be permanent contributions to knowledge, were read before the Boston Society of Natural History: the first, at the meeting of Oct. 5, 1859; the last, at the meeting of Jan. 4, 1865.

The geological proposition which I have attempted to demonstrate is, that the globe, when first giving birth to life and rudimentary forms, was much larger in all its diameters than now.

When walking in darkness, we step timidly. When the sun rises, we tread boldly. No doubts now remain in my mind upon the important subject involved in the subsequent discussions.

When led to, and while pursuing, researches which have ended in these disquisitions, the opinions of the ancients were unknown to me. Geology, in its solid conceptions, however, is only of recent birth. It belongs to this century. It is still in infancy; and the indefatigable labor of the largest intellects will be long in bringing it to maturity.

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