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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 



inlneralogy in cabinets, or in books only ; but 

 who has feldom beheld foffils in their native 



place. 



With the balance in his hand, ajid the 



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external charafters of Werner in hjs view, he 

 has examined minerals with diligence, and has 

 difcovered many of thofe marks which ferve to 

 afcertahi their places, in a fyftem of artificial* ar- 

 rangement. But to reafon and to arrange are 



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very different occupations of the mind ; and 

 a man may deferve praife as a mineralogift, who 

 is but ill qualified for the refearches of geo- 

 logy. 



423. The fame hurry and impatience are vili- 



ble in the manner in which his argument againft 

 Dr Hutton is ufually condudled. He has feldora 

 been careful to make himfelf mailer of the opi- 

 nions of his adverfaries ; and what he gives as 

 fuch, and direds his reafonings againft, have of- 

 ten no refemblance to them whatfoever. With- 

 out any intention to deceive others, but deceived 

 himfelf, he ufually begins with mifreprefenting 

 DrHutton's notions, and then proceeds to the re- 

 futation of them. In this imaginary conteft, it 

 will readily be fuppofed, that he is in general 

 fuccefsful : when a man has the framing both of 

 his own argument, and that of his antagonift, he 

 mull be a very unikilful logician if he does not 



come off with the advantage. 



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