Glaucus, or, The wonders of the shore / by Charles Kingsley.

  • Charles Kingsley
Date:
1878
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Glaucus, or, The wonders of the shore / by Charles Kingsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Maker of tlie coal seam and the diluvial cave could not he a “Deus quidam deceptor,” and that the facts which the rock and the silt revealed were sacred, not to he warped or trifled with for the sake of any cowardly and hasty notion that they con- tradicted His other messages. When a few more years are past, Buckland and Sedgwick, Murchison and Lyell, Delaheche and Phillips, Forbes and Jamieson, and the group of brave men who accom- panied and followed them, will he looked hack to as moral benefactors of their race; and almost as martyrs, also, when it is remembered how much misunderstanding, obloquy, and plausible folly they had to endure from well-meaning fanatics like Fairholme or Granville Penn, and the respectable mob at their heels who tried (as is the fashion in such cases) to make a hollow compromise be- tween fact and the Bible, by twisting facts just enough to make them fit the fancied meaning of the Bible, and the Bible just enough to make it fit the fancied meaning of the facts. But there were a few who would have no compromise j
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