. Outlines of natural theology for the use of the Canadian student [microform] : selected and arranged from the most authentic sources. Natural history; Natural theology; Sciences naturelles; Théologie naturelle. UM. \i ' 454 no sign of land plants or vertebrata, and in which the solid materials, enclosing every where a similar fauna, were spread out with great uniformity, we soon begin to perceive proofs of powerful evolutions, chiefly commencing after the coal formations, by which the earth's surface was so corrugated, that, after many perturbations, the groups of animals and plants were inf
. Outlines of natural theology for the use of the Canadian student [microform] : selected and arranged from the most authentic sources. Natural history; Natural theology; Sciences naturelles; Théologie naturelle. UM. \i ' 454 no sign of land plants or vertebrata, and in which the solid materials, enclosing every where a similar fauna, were spread out with great uniformity, we soon begin to perceive proofs of powerful evolutions, chiefly commencing after the coal formations, by which the earth's surface was so corrugated, that, after many perturbations, the groups of animals and plants were infinitely more restricted than before to given regions and climates. And as the highly diversified conditions of the latest geological era and of the present day were wholly unknown in the primeval epochs, so it follows that we should greatly err if we endeavoured to force all nature into a close comparison with existing operations. Now, assured that these most important deduc- tions are based on truth, and may be readily sup- ported by valid arguments from the laws which govern the organic world, wc ought then to find that, as the architect developed the several parts of his scheme, there wou^d necessarily be a more and more close similarity in its parts, a greater harmony in the great whole. Such we find really to be the case in nature, and we cannot then but expect to find a greater and more close similarity between later creations. We shall therefore endea- vour to shew that the re-creation of genera or varie- ties rather, of organic forms, has been and is the law of creation. We have already shewn, on the authority of Professor Owen and others, that the ha. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bovell, James, 1817-1880. [Toronto? : s. n. ]
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