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Everywhere, slowly but surely, the surface of the land is being worn away; its substance is being carried to burial in the seas. Should this denudation continue long enough, thinks Hutton, the entire surface of the continents must be worn away.
"This," he said, "is the work of Presbyterian firebrands." If an Act like this could be passed in America, who knew what might not happen soon in England? "We ought," he continued, "to utilize this or some other favourable opportunity for bringing our cause publicly before Parliament." Now was the time, thought the fiery Hutton, to define the position of the Brethren's Church in England.
Inspired, no doubt, by the researches of Mack, Hutton, and their confreres of that Edinburgh school, Wells made observations on evaporation and precipitation as early as 1784, but other things claimed his attention; and though he asserts that the subject was often in his mind, he did not take it up again in earnest until about 1812.
Upon the death of Warwick, the Kingmaker, in 1471, Edward IV gave the castle and manor of Sheriff Hutton to his brother Richard, afterwards Richard III, and it was he who kept Edward IV's eldest child Elizabeth a prisoner within these massive walls.
The inorganic was as little reduced to system, and in its broadest aspect was not even looked at. Buffon's acute but for the most part empiric speculations on the structure of the globe were a step in advance; but the science of geology he did not recognize, and left to be shaped a very little later by Hutton.
It's not a business that's conducive to unswerving rectitude. Hutton has come up here to see you about the thing?" "He says he has some other business." "Well," replied Acton, "perhaps he has." Then he turned to Wisbech, who sat close by. "I'll go ashore with Nasmyth. Will you come along?" "No," said Wisbech; "I almost think I'll stay where I am.
"I was very nearly doing what I think would have been an unwise thing," he said. "It was fortunate you came along when you did." Acton waved his hand. "I'm open to admit that Hutton has a voice like a boring bit. It would go through a door, any way. It's a thing he ought to remember." "There is still a point or two I am not very clear upon;" and Nasmyth looked at him steadily. Acton smiled again.
And there's James Harvey Robinson and Professor Hutton Webster. They've been trying to restore our memory." "I've never heard of any of them," said Sir Richmond. "You hear so little of America over here. It's quite a large country and all sorts of interesting things happen there nowadays. And we are waking up to history. Quite fast. We shan't always be the most ignorant people in the world.
But other influences were at work upon Hutton beside those of a mind logical by Nature, and scientific by sound training; and the peculiar turn which his speculations took seems to me to be unintelligible, unless these be taken into account.
"Now, I'm going to buy that land Waynefleet sold from you or, rather, he's going to give you your money back for it. You can arrange the thing with Hutton who, I believe, supplied the money afterwards as best you can." Nasmyth fancied Hames was relieved that no more was expected from him. "I guess I'm in your hands," observed Hames.
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