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BORN NOV. 14, 1797, DIED FEB. 22, 1875. LYELL'S life was uneventful. Great changes in thought, great scientific discoveries, are not called events. Yet, as might have been expected in the case of a man so active, so famous, so far travelled, his life was full of incident, and groups of incidents lead to or make up events. We are indeed in the habit of looking upon Sir Charles Lyell as representing an idea, a theory, a principle —and rightly so. We cannot say exactly that he originated a new method of investigation, but by the use of the right methods, and in the determination to follow fairly each established fact to its logical consequences, he has taught us the laws which have governed the changes of which we can observe the results in the crust of the earth.
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Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., F.R.S. . Nature 11, 341–342 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/011341a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/011341a0