. 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. ^1^- can the fair inference be evaded, that things which did not exist during the Silurian period, were created in the very same tracts during the following ages. The uniformitarian who would explain every natural event in the earliest periods, by reference to the ex- isting conditions of being, is thus stopped at the very threshold of the palace of former life, which he can- n
. 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. ^1^- can the fair inference be evaded, that things which did not exist during the Silurian period, were created in the very same tracts during the following ages. The uniformitarian who would explain every natural event in the earliest periods, by reference to the ex- isting conditions of being, is thus stopped at the very threshold of the palace of former life, which he can- not deprive of its true foundations. Nature herself tells him, through her most ancient monuments, that though she has worked during all ages on the same ge- nera^, principles of destruction and renovation of the surface, there was tbrmerly a distribution of land, in reference to the sea, very different in outlin^ from that which now prevails. That primeval state was followed by outbursts of great volumes of igneous matter from the interior, the extraordinary violence of which is made manifest by clear evidences. Fractures in the crust of the earth, accompanied by oscillations that suddenly displaced masses to thousands of feet above or beneath their previous levels, were necessarily productive of such transla- tions of water as to abrade and destroy solid mate- rials, to an extent inj&nitely surpassing any change of which the historical era affords an example. We would cite the works of Leopold Von Buch, Elie de Beaumont, Sedgwick Stridor, and numerous other geologists for countless proofs of this grander inten- sity of former geological causation, by which gigantic masses were inverted, and strata forming mountains. 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
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