The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Miller, My Schools and schoolmasters. CUL-DAR205.9.262. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2021. RN1

NOTE: The brown crayon number '22' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Palaeontology: extinction.

Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.9 contains notes on palaeontology and geology [regarding theory of evolution].

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Hugh Miller. My Schools & Schoolmasters (22

p. 440 In the raised margin 15-25 ft high, near Cromarty, the caves are on average 1/3 deeper than those at present coast-line. And the sea has stood on present line, no one will doubt 2000-3000 years. (Has not Smith of Jordan Hill said then it must have occupied 20,000 years-) Hugh Miller speaks elsewhere of the earth being millions years old. "Six thousand years "does not extend into the yesterday of the globe, far less touch the myriads of ages spread out beyond."

[Hugh Miller. 1854. My Schools and schoolmasters of the history of my education. Edinburgh: Thomas Constable and Co.]

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