The eternity of the world / By G.H. Toulmin.

  • George Hoggart Toulmin
Date:
1785
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Credit: The eternity of the world / By G.H. Toulmin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * ... < to take place, from the contention of the ele¬ ments, or the convulfions and revolutions of nature. Convulfions and revolutions, indeed, with which our imperfect hiftories and tradi- tions furnifh us with no adequate teftimony, nor fimilitude j but which the faCts enume¬ rated throughout the whole of this enquiry, and every appearance of the univerfe, lead us ftrongly to fufpeCt, both have exifted, and will again exift, anfi be productive of the molt natural but unexpected changes in the world. Had however<;the inroads of the northern nations continued a little longer, had they but been a little more violent and ex- teniive in their operations, fhould we have known what had paffed among thofe cele¬ brated nations, even a few centuries before us, and in the vicinity of our native country ? The Romans and the Greeks were but of yefterday, and we by the mereft accident in the world know a few of their tranfadtions* That perfection in the arts and fciences is effentially dependent upon the (late of lite¬ rature, will be readily granted. Could a people then be deprived of their literary re¬ finement.
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