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WHEN Sir Charles Lyell found that, owing to the rapid progress of geology, his early treatise must be extended beyond the limits of one handbook, he divided his subject into two parts. In the “Elements” he described the ancient changes of the earth and its inhabitants, as illustrated by geological monuments, and in the “Principles” he treated of the modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology. In the Elements we have a selection of facts upon which geologic history is founded; in the Principles we have a statement of the laws which have governed those changes based not only on the records of the past, but also and chiefly upon the observation of what is now going on in the present. Thus the Principles, which include that which we arrive at last, is, as its name implies, that which from an educational point of view we take first.
Text-book of Geology.
By Sir Archibald Geikie 4th Edition, revised and enlarged, 2 vols. Pp. xxi + 702; ix + 705 to 1472. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1903.) Price 30s. net.
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Text-book of Geology . Nature 69, 145–146 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/069145a0
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