open to admit the irradiating light of Knowl 

 edge. And it is also fabled that all this work 

 of Creation occurred but six thousand years 

 ago ! Which Creation, the state of civiliza- 

 tion in India and China some five thousand 

 years back, is sufficient to disprove without 

 the abundant aid derived from Geological 

 evidence ; all proving an inconceivably ancient 

 history for Man. 



Leaving the crude, brief, unsatisfactory and 

 incredible account of the Creation given in 

 Genesis to its inevitable and iinregrettable 

 fate, as one of the most audacious insults ever 

 offered to the human intellect; a reasoner is 

 irresistibly drawn on to conclude that Man 

 has been impelled, as Education gradually ex- 

 panded his growing intellect and drew him 

 away from the evil grasj) of the deceiving 

 priest in the dense shadow of the enslaving 

 church, to read with more and more deductive 

 attention the open book of ingenuous Nature 

 under the blue dome of a clear sky in the frank 

 light of day. 



Thus has he been broadeningly led to in- 

 spect the vastly altering geological strata, to 

 compare the multi vegetal transformations oc- 

 curring from age to age, to meditate upon the 



