{"collection":"Earth Mysteries","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_toe_toe24_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_toe_toe24_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_toe_toe24_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/earth/toe/toe24.htm","summary":"Theory of the Earth, by James Hutton, [1788 and 1795]\nBy the present theory, the earth on which we dwell is represented as having been formed originally in horizontal strata at the bottom of the ocean; hence it should appear, that the land, in having been raised from the sea, and thus placed upon a higher level, had been of a different shape and condition from that in which we find it at the present time. This is a proposition now to be considered. In whatever order and disposition the hard and\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Theory of the Earth: Theory of the Earth [1795], Vol. II ...","tradition":"Earth Mysteries","translated_text":null,"word_count":502}