John Playfair Quote

The outlines, at least, of geology have now been traced with tolerable truth, and are not susceptible of great variation... The mass of knowledge is in that state of termination from which the true theory may be expected to emerge.


Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth, Section 449, 451 (pp. 515, 516), Dover Publications, Inc. 1964


The outlines, at least, of geology have now been traced with tolerable truth, and are not susceptible of great variation... The mass of knowledge is...

The outlines, at least, of geology have now been traced with tolerable truth, and are not susceptible of great variation... The mass of knowledge is...

The outlines, at least, of geology have now been traced with tolerable truth, and are not susceptible of great variation... The mass of knowledge is...

The outlines, at least, of geology have now been traced with tolerable truth, and are not susceptible of great variation... The mass of knowledge is...