Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Volume 5California Academy of Sciences, 1875 |
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Page 233 - ... theory of evolution. Evolution is development. Evolution of the organic kingdom is development of the organic kingdom through geologic times. No one insisted so long and so strongly on development of the organic kingdom through geologic times, as did Agassiz. All that is grandest and most certain in evolution, viz.
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Page 230 - Before Agassiz, the study of glaciers was the study of nice questions in physics, and of interest principally to special physicists. Agassiz transferred the whole subject into the broad domain of geology, and gave it a far deeper, broader, and more general interest. The result was not only a powerful impulse to the study of glaciers, but a flood of light shed upon the whole later geological history of our earth, and thus an enormous impulse to geology also. But I said that Agassiz was a great reformer...
Page 239 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low. So the struck eagle...