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He was one of the earliest friends of the Moravians; he had often attended meetings at Hutton's house; he was an upright, conscientious, intelligent Christian; and yet he accused the Brethren of teaching "that there were no duties in the New Testament." Gilbert Tennent brought the very same accusation.
To him it seems clear that the basis of the present continents was laid in ancient sea-beds, formed of the detritus of continents yet more ancient. But two links are still wanting to complete the chain of Hutton's hypothesis.
General Hutton's interfering activities were so objectionable that he was got rid of by a face-saving expedient; but four years later a successor to his office, Lord Dundonald, was formally dismissed by order-in-council for his "unpardonable indiscretion" in publicly criticizing the acting minister of militia.
Now, however, it has become axiomatic one can hardly realize that it was ever doubted. Every new scientific truth, says Agassiz, must pass through three stages first, men say it is not true; then they declare it hostile to religion; finally, they assert that every one has known it always. Hutton's truth that natural law is changeless and eternal has reached this final stage.
Before Hutton's views could be accepted, his pivotal conception that time is long must be established by convincing proofs. The evidence was being gathered by William Smith, Cuvier, and other devotees of the budding science of paleontology in the last days of the century, but their labors were not brought to completion till a subsequent epoch.
Hutton's Literary Landmarks in London. Lucas's A Wanderer in London. Shelley's Literary By-Paths in Old England. Baildon's Homes and Haunts of Famous Authors. Bates's From Gretna Green to Land's End. Masson's In the Footsteps of the Poets. Wolfe's A Literary Pilgrimage among the Haunts of Famous British Authors. Salmon's Literary Rambles in the West of England. Winter's Shakespeare's England.
Peirce took a great interest in Maria, especially in developing her taste for mathematical study, for which she early showed a remarkable talent. The books which she studied at the age of seventeen, as we know by the date of the notes, were Bridge's "Conic Sections," Hutton's "Mathematics," and Bowditch's "Navigator." At that time Prof.
All I know, personally, is that Hutton's hiding somewhere round this mine to hold up our gold shipments and get even with Dudley; and if you'll tell me where to meet him to-night I can stop both and be saved the trouble of looking for him from here to Caraquet, let alone getting you some peace of mind instead of the hell you're living in."
Melville's The Thackeray Country. Kitton's The Dickens Country. Sloan's The Carlyle Country. Dougall's The Burns Country. Crockett's The Scott Country. Hill's Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends. Cook's Homes and Haunts of John Ruskin. Eliot, The Brontë Country, Thackeray Land, The Thames from Oxford to the Nore. Hutton's Literary Landmarks of Edinburgh.
Goldwin Smith's Life of Cowper. Wright's Life of Cowper. Shairp's Robert Burns. Carlyle's Essay on Burns. Lockhart's Life of Scott., Hutton's Life of Scott. Yonge's Life of Scott. Goldwin Smith's Life of Jane Austen. Helm's Jane Austen and her Country House Comedy. Mitton's Jane Austen and her Times. Adams's The Story of Jane Austen's Life. Robertson's Wordsworth and the English Lake Country.
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