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„A volcano is not made on purpose to frighten superstitious people into fits of piety and devotion; nor to overwhelm devoted cities with destruction; a volcano should be considered as a spiracle to the subterranean furnace, in order to prevent the unnecessary elevation of land, and letal effects of earthquakes.“

(James Hutton: „Theory of the Earth“. Wheldon and Wesley, Codicote, 1795)