ENGB52H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Crass, Malthusian Catastrophe, Michel De Montaigne
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Jan 31: the story of the earth in memorium by alfred lord tennyson. Charles lyell and the principles of geology. Tennyson"s in memoriam a. h. h. and the metaphors of geology. The universe operates by the same natural laws that it always has, and it will continue to do so. The present is the key to the past. If you know how things went down back then, you"ll know how it works now. Also known as gradualism change across time as prescribed by natural law. Contrary to the idea of catastrophism the big changes in evolution in anything (global scale) were caused by total catastrophes. Those mountains you see came because of the gradual change over time. Because those who practice art are called artists so we might call those who practice science are scientists . Inductive reasoning: gathering evidence, generalizing it and making an explanatory leap using your own thoughts to create a theory.
