THE STORY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE 



JAMES HUTTON 



Whatever important changes in the general character 

 of the surface of the globe were conceived to have taken 

 place since its creation were generally associated with 

 the Mosaic deluge, and the theories which attempted to 

 explain this catastrophe were quite on a par with those 

 which dealt with a remoter period of the earth's history. 



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