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Charles Lyell (1797-1875) authored three ground-breaking volumes, the Principles of Geology (1830-1833), that introduced Darwin to the modern concepts and methods of the developing science. In his Autobiography Darwin said that the Principles convinced him "of the infinite superiority of Lyell's views over those advocated in any other work known to me." Elsewhere he remarked that "I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain...for I have always thought that the great merit of the Principles was that it altered the whole tone of one's mind." Ironically, it was Bible-quoting FitzRoy who gave Darwin Volume One at the beginning of the Beagle voyage and it became Darwin's "bible."
 
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