John Mason Good Quote

The direct object of geology is, to unfold the solid substance of the earth — to discover by what causes its several parts have been either arranged or disorganized — and from what operations have originated the general stratification of its materials, the inequalities of its surface, and the vast variety of bodies that enter into its make.

The Book of Nature, Series I, Lecture VI (p. 65), Belknap and Hamersley. 1844