Assertion: geologist | /r/CapableOf | sneer at simple a theory
Facets:
value: however much
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Indeed so very striking was the resemblance between the water and the land, that, however much the geologist might sneer at so simple a theory, it would have been difficult for a poet not to have felt, that the formation of the one had been produced by the subsiding dominion of the other.