. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . urely it would be the very irony ofscientific fate if forms now so closely connected in life shouldin death be so divided. To present it in another form. Why should we be askedto believe that these aca-cias, cinnamons, palms, etc.,lived and died ages ormillions of years before thelions, elephants, rhinoce-roses, hippopotami, came onthe stage to feed upon themor enjoy their shade; andthen, after these unnumbered ^°°^« «^ mastodon ages had dragged their slow length along and vanishedinto the dim past, and all these semi
. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . urely it would be the very irony ofscientific fate if forms now so closely connected in life shouldin death be so divided. To present it in another form. Why should we be askedto believe that these aca-cias, cinnamons, palms, etc.,lived and died ages ormillions of years before thelions, elephants, rhinoce-roses, hippopotami, came onthe stage to feed upon themor enjoy their shade; andthen, after these unnumbered ^°°^« «^ mastodon ages had dragged their slow length along and vanishedinto the dim past, and all these semitropical trees hadshifted to the tropics or been turned into lignite, theselions, elephants, and hippopotami came into existence inthese same localities, when no such plants existed anywherein Europe? Surely they ought to give us some pretty sub-stantial reasons for such a violation of the observed uni-formity of nature. Geologists generally boast that theyhave outgrown the crude ideas of Werner and his schoolwhen they spoke of ages of limestone making or of sandstone. 120 GODS TWO BOOKS making; but it seems that they have not yet attained tothat broad view of the essential unity of nature where theflora and fauna of our world are seen to be just as indis-solubly connected with each other; for nature could aseasily be persuaded to produce for a whole age nothingin the shape of rock but limestone or conglomerate, as to
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