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In a 1905 topic titled
The Founders of Geology
, Sir Archibald Geikie, from
whom we will hear more, wrote that Lyell became “the great high priest of Uni-
formitarianism—a creed which grew to be almost universal in England during his
life, but which never made much way in the rest of Europe, and which in its ex-
treme form is probably now held by few geologists in any country.”
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