Tags: nature
Categories: Personification
An example of personification (of nature) in scientific writing:
"…in the use of means, we are not to prescribe to nature those alone which we think suitable for the purpose, in our narrow view. It is our business to learn of nature (that is by observation) the ways and means, which in her wisdom are adopted; and we are to imagine these only in order to find means for further information, and to increase our knowledge from the examination of things which actually have been."
James Hutton (1788) Theory of the Earth
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