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BEFORE entering on the special subjects to be treated of in the following course of lectures, it is most desirable that we should definitely shape to ourselves the objects we have in view. By doing so we can the better take stock from time to time of our gains, and judge at the end how far we have succeeded in achieving any solid advantages.
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Introductory Lecture of the Murchison Chair of Geology at Edinburgh, Session 1872–3*. Nature 7, 164–165 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/007164a0
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