Chaos and confusion are not to be introduced into the order of nature, because certain things appear to our partial views as being in some disorder. Nor are we to proceed in feigning causes when those seem insufficient which occur in our experience.


The Theory of the Earth (Volume 2), Part II, Chapter XIV (p. 547)

James Hutton Quotes

Chaos and confusion are not to be introduced into the order of nature, because certain things appear to our partial views as being in some disorder....

Chaos and confusion are not to be introduced into the order of nature, because certain things appear to our partial views as being in some disorder....

Chaos and confusion are not to be introduced into the order of nature, because certain things appear to our partial views as being in some disorder....

Chaos and confusion are not to be introduced into the order of nature, because certain things appear to our partial views as being in some disorder....