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HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



129 



do 



th 



prefides over 



fented by any pbilofopl 



P 



fyilem, nor a gr 



addition ever made to our knowledge of final 

 ufes. It is an addition which gives confillency 

 the reft, by proving, that equal forefight is ex- 

 Lcd in providing for the m 



hoi 



d for th 



par 

 the 



d that no lefs care is taken to mai 



ft 



f th 



i earth, than to preferve 

 the tribes of animals and vegetables which dwell 



fur fa 



In a word, it is the peculi 



of this theory, that it afcrib 



to the 



phenomena of geology an order limilar to th 

 which 



which 



fts in th 



provi 



f 



with 



th 



we are beft acquainted ; that it produ- 



not by accident, but by 



feas and 

 operation of regul 



and 



that it makes the decay of o 

 to the reftoration of another, 



to the w 



jniform caufes ; 

 part fubfervient 

 gives ftability 



i whole, not by perpetuating individuals 

 but by reproducing them in fucceflion. 



127. Again, in the detail of this theory, and 



pie indudion 



hich it is founded 



ith many fads and obfervat 



either 



entirely 

 derftood 



or hitherto 



y imperfectly 



niafles of granite, and 

 fchiftus, had eith 



1 hus, the veins which proceed from 



pene 



the incumbent 



former mineralogift 



fcaped the obfervation of 



J* 



or the importance of 



l^hcnomenon had been entirely overlooked 



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