[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.

[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.

Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit that by which alone it had existence; and as the natural course of time, which to us seems infinite, cannot be bounded by any operation that may have an end, the progress of things upon this globe, that is, the course of nature, cannot be limited by time, which must proceed in a continual succession.

There is no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

The globe of this earth … [is] … not just a machine but also a organised body as it has a regenerative power.

With such wisdom has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought about without the renovation of the earth in the production of another.

Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.