James Hutton Quote

We have but to enlarge our thoughts with regard to things past by attending to what we see at present, and we shall understand many things which to a more contracted view appear to be in nature insulated or without a proper cause —


Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations (Volume 2), Chapter VII (p. 212)


We have but to enlarge our thoughts with regard to things past by attending to what we see at present, and we shall understand many things which to a ...

We have but to enlarge our thoughts with regard to things past by attending to what we see at present, and we shall understand many things which to a ...

We have but to enlarge our thoughts with regard to things past by attending to what we see at present, and we shall understand many things which to a ...

We have but to enlarge our thoughts with regard to things past by attending to what we see at present, and we shall understand many things which to a ...