26 | The discoveries of Geology 
periment; reason has done her part, when experiment does hers; 
nature will not refuse to sanction the whole.  Aérial navigation will 
present the works of nature in all their charms; to commerce and 
the diffusion of knowledge, it will bring the most efficient aid, and 
it’ can thus be rendered serviceable to the whole human family. 
I now offer my scheme to the public, expecting soon to see a practi- 
cal and satisfactory demonstration of the truth of its principles. 
East Nassau, Rensselaer County, N. Y., June 10, 1833. 
Arr. Ill. oa tai 5 on the connection between the Mosaic His- 
tory of the creation and the Discoveries of geology, occasioned by 
the Lectures of Baron Cuvier on the History of the Natural Sci- 
ences, and published tn Prof. Jameson’s , Eapenrah New Philo- 
sophical Journal in 1832. 
[Various subjects ent Waicak ba. are discussed in the paper 
from which these remarks are extracted, but we insert only that part 
which bears on the topic stated at the head of this article. They are 
introduced by the following passage from Cuvier’s Lectures.— Ed. } 
“The books of Moses shew us, that he had very,perfect ideas 
respecting several of the highest questions of natural philosophy. 
His costnogony especially, considered in a purely scientific view, is 
extremely remarkable, inasmuch as the order which it assigns to the 
different epochs of creation, is precisely the same as that which has 
been deduced from geological considerations.” 
This, then, is the issue, in the opinion of es Pe of a 
- science, which has been held by many persons to teach conclusions 
at variance with the Book of Genesis,;—when at last more matured 
by a series of careful observations and legitimate induction, it teaches 
* No opinion can be heretical but that which is not true. Truths can never 
war against each other. I affirm, therefore, that we have nothing to fear from the 
results of our inquiries, provided they be followed in the laborious but secure road 
of honest induction. In this way, we may rest assured, we shall never arrive at 
to any truth, either physical or moral, from whatsoever source 
that treath ms be derived; nay, rather that new discoveries will ever lend support 
Peete Society, bbe tend 19, 1830. 
