. The testimony of the rocks; . MUBCHISONIA BIGRANULOSA.(Old Bed Sandstone.) CONULAEIA ORNATA. (Old Bed Sandstone.) these, knoAvn as Lanes Net, there sold a greater numberof pieces than of any other pattern ever brought into themarket. It led to many imitations; and one of the mostpopular of these answers line for line, save that it is morestiff and rectilinear, to the pattern in a recently discovered-Old Red Sandstone coral, the Smithia Pe7igellyi. Thebeautifully arranged lines which so smit the dames ofEngland, that each had to provide herself with a gownof the fabric which they adorned, had
. The testimony of the rocks; . MUBCHISONIA BIGRANULOSA.(Old Bed Sandstone.) CONULAEIA ORNATA. (Old Bed Sandstone.) these, knoAvn as Lanes Net, there sold a greater numberof pieces than of any other pattern ever brought into themarket. It led to many imitations; and one of the mostpopular of these answers line for line, save that it is morestiff and rectilinear, to the pattern in a recently discovered-Old Red Sandstone coral, the Smithia Pe7igellyi. Thebeautifully arranged lines which so smit the dames ofEngland, that each had to provide herself with a gownof the fabric which they adorned, had been stamped amidthe rocks eons of ages before. And it must not be forgot-ten, that all these forms and shades of beauty which oncefilled all nature, but of which only a few fragments, or a ON THE TWO THEOLOGIES. 259 few faded tints, sur\dve, were created, not to gratify manslove of the aesthetic, seeing that man had no existence until Fig. 107. Fig. CALICO PATTERN. (Manchester.) SMITHIA PENGELLTI. (Old Bed Sandstone.) long after they had disappeared, but in meet harmony withthe tastes and faculties of the Divine Worker, who had inhis wisdom produced them all. You will, I trust, bear with me should I seek, in depthswhere the light shed by science becomes obscure, to guidemy steps by light derived fi*om another and wholly differentsource. In an assembly such as that which I have now thehonor of addressing, there must be many shades of religiousopinion. I shall, however, assail no mans faith, but simplylay before you a few deductions which, founded on myown, have supplied me with what I deem a consistenttheory of the curious class of phenomena with which thisevening we have been mainly dealing. First, then, I musthold that we receive the true explanation of the man-likecharacter of the Creators workings ere man was, in theremarkable text in which we are told that God made manin his own image and Hkeness. There is no restrictionhere
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