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Ch. IV.] 



HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



77 



represented to be of a derivative nature, the last of an ante- 

 cedent series, and that, perhaps, one of many pre-existing 



worlds. 



immensity 



Newtor 



sublim 



painful sense of onr incapacity to conceive a plan of such 



infinite extent. Worlds 



seen 



immea 



surably distant from each other, and, beyond them 



innumerable other system 

 of the visible universe. 



Huttonian 



before hinted, the exclusion of all causes not supposed to 

 belong to the present order of nature. But 



Hutton had made 



Hooke, Mor 



manner 



mi 



overnmg subterranean move- 

 geological changes, if sufficient 

 time be allowed. On the contrary, he seems to have fallen 

 far short of some of their views, especially when he refused 

 to attribute any part of the external configuration of the 

 earth's crust to subsidence. He ima 

 were first gradually destroyed by aqueous degradation ; and 

 when their ruins had furnished materials for new continents, 

 they were upheaved by violent convulsions, 

 required alternate periods of general disturbance and repose : 



He 



would 



course of nature. 



Moro's system 



far nearer approximation towards reconciling geological ap- 

 pearances with the state of nature as known to us ; for while 



Hutton 



utmost 



uniformity, the learned Carmelite 

 mountains by elevation 



by elevation from below to be effected by an 

 equally constant and synchronous operation. Neither of 

 these theories, considered singly, satisfies all the conditions 



cosmo 



logical causes, is called upon to solve; but they probably 



m 



There can 



be no doubt, that periods of disturbance and repose have 



