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independently, and by different lines of reasoning, 

 at conclusions identical with those of Generelli and 

 Desmarest. 



Although, as we shall see, Hutton failed to greatly 

 influence the scientific thought of his day, yet all will 

 now agree with Lyell that ' Hutton laboured to give 

 fixed principles to geology, as Newton had succeeded 

 in doing to astronomy 11 ' ; and with Zittel that 

 'Hutton 8 Theory of the Earth is one of the master- 

 pieces in the history of geology 12 .' 



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