About George Poulett Scrope: George Julius Poulett Scrope was an English geologist and political economist as well as a magistrate for Stroud in Gloucestershire.
The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to the ear of the student of Nature seems echoed from every part of her works, is—Time!—Time!—Time!
The frontispiece of Mr. 's book is enough to throw a into fits.
We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence—crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the earth's greatest wonder, MAN, can be set aside, or its seemingly necessary result withhe...
