Excerpt from Geology Its Past and Present; Being a Lecture Delivered to the Members of the Glasgow Athenaeum, January 13, 1859
I have been long under promise to the Directors of this Institution, to contribute to its Course of Lectures; and it has been suggested to me that a more full account of some fossil remains which I had occasion to describe some years ago to the British Association, might afford a subject of some popular interest. I propose, however, in this Lecture to make the description of local facts subordinate to some remarks on the science of Geology in general - on its past history and its future prospects - on the main conclusions which have been firmly established - and on some of those which are now the principal subjects of discussion and of controversy.
The history of Geology is a very short one; for of all the sciences it is the youngest. Speculations, indeed, on the structure of the earth, and on the history of its creation, are old enough. Almost all mythologies contain them; and in all ages they have been a principal ingredient in what was called Philosophy. But speculation is not knowledge; still less is it that systematic knowledge which alone we dignify by the name of Science.
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