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and to the chronometry of the elevations of lands and moun- 

 tains, that it has appeared to me preferable, for the sake of 

 the links connecting such great and widely-diffused phse- 

 nomena, not to make the otherwise very natural separation 

 of organic and inorganic a primary element of classification 

 in a work on the Cosmos. The object in this work is not 

 to treat subjects morphologically, but rather to view Nature, 

 and the active forces of Nat are, in their totality. 



