Direct observation of the testimony of the earth ... is a matter of the laboratory, of the field naturalist, of indefatigable digging among the ancient archives of the earth's history. If Mr. Bryan, with an open heart and mind, would drop all his books and all the disputations among the doctors and study first hand the simple archives of Nature, all his doubts would disappear; he would not lose his religion; he would become an evolutionist.
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Henry Fairfield Osborn was a 19th-century American geologist and eugenicist. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. was an American paleontologist, geologist and eugenics advocate. Read more on Wikipedia →