Secord gives a dazzlingly detailed account of this scientific
trench warfare and its social consequences. One ends up with a
marvellous feeling for the major taxonomic enterprises in Darwin's
younger day: mapping, ordering, conquering 'taming the chaos" of
the strata. All of these of course had social and imperial
ramifications; and Secord mentions geology's moral appeal (in
supporting a divinely-stratified Creation) to a beleaguered elite
intent on subduing the lower orders.
Originally published in 1990.
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