Excerpt from A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps, Vol. 2 of 6: With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France The folly of implicit faith-3peculation on the system of the world not injurious to religion-the history of the arts does not disprove the high antiquity of the world-abundantly prov ed from natural phen homena-the highest mountains once islands m the ocean-their materials belong to the Sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
