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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

Knowledge, Science, Rome

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

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Born: August 1, 1733
Died: June 22, 1812
Occupation: Scientist
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