A Comparative Estimate of the Mineral and Mosaical Geologies (V. 2)
by Granville Penn (9780217149563)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VIII. But, there is still a phenomenon, connected with those which we have examined, for the explanation of which the mineral geology requires more revolutions; and that is,, the discovery of the exuviae of animals whose species and even genera no longer exist: this phenomenon, appears to it incapable of a reasonable reference to any revolution reported by Moses. This is, indeed, a phenomenon well calculated to perplex a science which neglects Newton's inculcation, of combining morals with physics, and of subjecting the latter to the former; and which excludes all inquiry into the mode of the first formation of the animal and vegetable structures, confining its speculation to the formation of one inanimate member of creation detached from all the rest, and to chemical and mechanical agencies only. There is no mere physical principle, that will serve to explain this phenomenon; nor can it be expounded, unless by reference to the principle which alone explains the mode of thefirst animal formations, namely, Creative Power. But, the Mosaical Geology, which is founded upon that principle, and which therein accords with the philosophy of Newton, guides us to an easy solution of this mysterious problern. The sole cause of the last great revolution of the globe, was its Creator, who also caused its first great revolution; and, evidences of that identity were of great moral concernment. When God made known to Noah the animal species which He designed to preserve, " to keep seed alive upon the " earth;" it is manifest, from the testimony which we are here considering, that He was pleased to except some from that preservation1. We know that the formidable animal, the carnivorous1 elephant, to which science has given the name of Mastodon, and various others, to which the ...

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