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Excerpt from The Face of the Earth (Das Antlitz Der Erde), Vol. 1
Alps, which has since received the name of the 'double fold of Glarus.' Studer opposed him. Such movements of the mountains were, he said, contrary to nature and inexplicable. Escher did not concern himself with the explanation, but with the facts.
A few years later I had the good fortune to make the acquaintance of Sir Charles Lyell, with whom, as with Escher, I maintained friendly relations till the close of his life. On the one side stood Sir Charles, the calm superior philosopher, the lucid thinker and clear writer; on the other dear old Arnold Escher, who entrusted his admirable sketches and diaries to every one indiscriminately, but to whom every line he had to publish was a torment, and who was perhaps only quite in his element up in the snow and ice, when the wind swept his grey head and his eye roamed over a sea of peaks. In characterizing this time I only mention these two important men, because in the contrast of their qualities the whole wide field of activity in our glorious science is brought into view. Lyell's Principles, however, of which the ninth edition appeared in 1853, while investigating at length many fundamental questions, scarcely touched that of mountain-formation: Escher would not enter at all into the discussion of theoretical questions.
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