Richard Kirwan quotes

Richard Kirwan quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion of unexceptionable testimony, must be deemed as absurd as that of deducing the history of ancient Rome solely from the medals or other monuments of antiquity it still exhibits, or the scattered ruins of its empire, to the exclusion of a Livy, a Sallust, or a Tacitus.”
-- Richard Kirwan

Source : Richard Kirwan (1799). “Geological essays”, p.5

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