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System Quotes by John Playfair
- Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to its size, and…
- The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own…
- [To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial…
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