{"collection":"Earth Mysteries","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_toe_toe28_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_toe_toe28_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_toe_toe28_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/toe28.htm","summary":"Theory of the Earth, by James Hutton, [1788 and 1795]\nThe same Subject continued, in giving still\n farther Views of the Dissolution of the\n Earth. To have an idea of this operation of running water changing the surface of the earth, one should travel in the Alps; it is there that are to be seen all the steps of this progression of things, and so closely connected in the scene which lies before one, that there is not required any chain of argument, or distant reasoning from effect to cause, in\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Theory of the Earth: Theory of the Earth [1795], Vol. II ...","tradition":"Earth Mysteries","translated_text":null,"word_count":7540}