| 4. | Charles Lyell, Historian of Time's Cycle | 99 |
| The Case of Professor Ichthyosaurus 99 | |
| Charles Lyell, Self-Made in Cardboard 104 | |
| Lyell's Rhetorical Triumph: The Miscasting | |
| of Catastrophism 115 | |
| Lyell's Defense of Time's Cycle 132 | |
| Lyell, Historian of Time's Cycle 150 | |
| The Partial Unraveling of Lyell's World View 167 | |
| Epilogue 178 | |
| 5. | Boundaries | 181 |
| Hampton's Throne and Burners Frontispiece 181 | |
| The Deeper Themes of Arrows and Cycles 191 | |
| Bibliography | 211 |
| Index | 217 |
