Note 801 — Chapter V · (continued 2)

Playfair (Life of Hutton, p. 64) says that it drew ‘their attention’ (i.e. the attention of ‘men of science’), ‘very slowly, so that several years elapsed before any one showed himself publicly concerned about it, either as an enemy or a friend.’ He adds, as one of the reasons of this, that it contained ‘too little detail of facts for a system which involved so much that was new, and opposite to the opinions generally received.’