The Historical Basis of Modern Europe (1760-1815) : An Introductory Study to the General History of Europe in the Nineteenth Century
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SCIENTIFIC GEOLOGY. 461 observers. But while he was thus depraving tKe imaginations of his pupils, a Scottish geologist was quietly working out a rigorous method of observa- tion, deduction, and comparison. Hutton discarded alike speculation on the origin of things and con- jectures about obsolete causes. " Nunc naturalem causam quaerimus et assiduam, non raram et fortuitam," was the maxim which guided his in- vestigations.* Assuming only the operation of existing forces, he applied them to exp...lain the structures discovered by investigation ; and having ascended through particulars to his conclusions, h^ descended again and verified them by comparison with more extended observations. He thus arrived at a theory of the earth which, though imperfectly developed by himself, provided a positive basis for geological science. His severe exclusion of hypo- thetical causes led him to assign immense periods of time to the different processes of formation : warranted by the chemical experiments of Sir James Hall, he applied the principle of pressure to modify the effects of heat on the rocks which had been fused beneath the sea : constant to his belief that we have neither evidence of a beginning nor prospect of an end, he maintained that no order of rocks betrayed a genuinely primitive character.
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SCIENTIFIC GEOLOGY. 461 observers. But while he was thus depraving tKe imaginations of his pupils, a Scottish geologist was quietly working out a rigorous method of observa- tion, deduction, and comparison. Hutton discarded alike speculation on the origin of things and con- jectures about obsolete causes. " Nunc naturalem causam quaerimus et assiduam, non raram et fortuitam," was the maxim which guided his in- vestigations.* Assuming only the operation of existing forces, he applied them to exp...lain the structures discovered by investigation ; and having ascended through particulars to his conclusions, h^ descended again and verified them by comparison with more extended observations. He thus arrived at a theory of the earth which, though imperfectly developed by himself, provided a positive basis for geological science. His severe exclusion of hypo- thetical causes led him to assign immense periods of time to the different processes of formation : warranted by the chemical experiments of Sir James Hall, he applied the principle of pressure to modify the effects of heat on the rocks which had been fused beneath the sea : constant to his belief that we have neither evidence of a beginning nor prospect of an end, he maintained that no order of rocks betrayed a genuinely primitive character.
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