Volume 1

A picture book of evolution / by Dennis Hird.

  • Dennis Hird
Date:
1906-1907
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A picture book of evolution / by Dennis Hird. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The great gaps which still exist are being filled up, and the evolutionist watches the process in calm assurance, for every discovery furnishes more abundant proof of the truth of his doctrines, and no series of animals has been discovered which tends to throw doubt on evolution. Fig. 96.—Sir Charles Lyell. Born 1797; died 1875. Sir Charles Lyell was perhaps the most eminent geologist alive when Charles Darwin brought out his book, The Origin of Species. In a most impor¬ tant manner Lyell had prepared the way for Darwin’s greater work, because he had shown in his Principles of Geology that there were none of those breaks which are called catastrophes. In fact, Lyell had killed the catastrophe-error ; still, he was not able at first to accept Darwin’s explanation of the origin of species. He was now sixty-two years of age, but he continued his studies, and when he brought out the tenth edition of the Principles of Geology, in 1867, he proclaimed that he had accepted evolution as true. Such testimony from such a man, after eight
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