The philosophy of earthquakes, natural and religious, or, an inquiry into their cause, and their purpose / By William Stukeley.

  • Stukeley, William, 1687-1765.
Date:
1750
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The philosophy of earthquakes, natural and religious, or, an inquiry into their cause, and their purpose / By William Stukeley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 5 ] T O Martin Folkes, Efq; L L. D. Prefiident of the Royal Society. March 26, 1750. WHEN fo great and unufual & pheno¬ menon, as an earthquake, and that repeated, happens among us; it will naturally excite a ferious re¬ flexion in every one that is capable of thinking. And we cannot help confidering it, both in a philofophical, and a religious view. Any mind will take the alarm, when we perceive a mo¬ tion that affefts the earth, that bears the whole city of London, and fome miles round it. And at the fame time while it gives us fo fen- fible a fhake, fo gently fets us down again; with¬ out damage to any buildings, and without a life loft. ’Tishard to fay, which is the greater won¬ der. But alas in the works of nature, there are no degrees of great, and little comparifons are incompatible. We indeed are more affec¬ ted with what feems great in our own appre- henfions: I would rather fay, what is rare and A 3 unufual.