To him the two or three labored guesses that Sir Charles suggested or borrowed to explain glaciation were proof of nothing, and were quite unsolid as support for so immense a superstructure as geological uniformity.

对他来说，查尔斯爵士建议或借用来解释冰川作用的两三个费力的猜测是毫无根据的，而且作为对地质均匀性如此巨大的上层建筑的支持是相当不可靠的。