Demonstration of the truth of the Christian . e-seeking) force, as SirIsaac Newton termed it. And the great modern master ofthe higher geometry, who has trod farthest in the path inwhich Newton first led, and who was so versant with themotions of the planets as to trace them by a profound saga-city to an origin befitting the majestic and divine simplicityof the laws which regulate them, has shown how, as affect-ing our globe and every other, the waters were gathered to-gether into one place, and the earth was consolidated. And as the dry land appeared, the task of geologists be-gins
Demonstration of the truth of the Christian . e-seeking) force, as SirIsaac Newton termed it. And the great modern master ofthe higher geometry, who has trod farthest in the path inwhich Newton first led, and who was so versant with themotions of the planets as to trace them by a profound saga-city to an origin befitting the majestic and divine simplicityof the laws which regulate them, has shown how, as affect-ing our globe and every other, the waters were gathered to-gether into one place, and the earth was consolidated. And as the dry land appeared, the task of geologists be-gins. To the oldest of formations they have given the title(not undisputed) of primitive rock; and with the magic wandof truth they have brought back again, after the lapse ofthousands of years, the springtime of our earth, and showed * The reader is specially referred to the very interesting and able workof Dr. Nichol, Professor of Practical Astronomy, Glasgow University, inwhich the subject is elucidated both in a philosophical and popularmanner. Brogmart
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