"Catastrophist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as early as the year 1817, when he visited East Anglia, Lyell began to experience vague doubts concerning the soundness of the 'Catastrophist' doctrines, which had been so strongly impressed upon him by Buckland. And these doubts in the mind of the undergraduate of twenty years of age gradually acquired strength and definiteness during his frequent geological ...
— The Coming of Evolution - The Story of a Great Revolution in Science • John W. (John Wesley) Judd |
