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_ Dr. Smith has not, like some theologians, denied, neglected, avoided, 
or slurred over the facts; he has met them in their full force; he gives 
entire credit to the researches of geology, both as regards the accuracy 
and ability of the investigations and the fidelity of the reports. He 
admits the obligation also which geologists have laid upon the world od 
their arduous labors and important discoveries. 
Did our space admit, it would give us great pleasure to catnbliely the 
truth of these statements by numerous citations from the work 5 and 
we are happy in finding ourselves in almost. perfect accordance 
the scientific views of the author. He is decidedly conviicedinntonily 
of the high antiquity of the planet, but also of its fossilized races of 
_ and A PRIA =, on perfect consistency of this view with the 
statement. contained in the first verse of the first chapter of Gen- 
wna ‘it-is declared that that God created the heavens and the earth 
in the beginning,—as the author believes and we believe, long anterior 
to the creation of man, whose appearance on the planet is geologically a 
very modern event. While perfectly agreeing with him in this view, 
- it is with pain that we differ from so distinguished and excellent an au- 
thor with respect to the six days. The scheme presented in Lecture VII, 
Part II, however it may be thought to be: philologically convenient, 
does not appear to us to meet the geological difficulties, or to be con- 
sistent with geological laws. As the writer of this notice has explained 
his views in the appendix to Bakewell’s Geology, (third American from 
the fifth English edition,) we feel it to be the loss necessary 10. Tepent 
the statements here. We have indeed preferred to a polemical 
discussion in this Journal, which is mainly devoted to facts. 
To us it appears that ne. explanation oF. pettogicnl phenomena in re- 
lation to the days of th C) tisf tallows the 
requisite time for the events, as. ‘occurring in ‘their proper.order, con- 
sistently with the laws of mineral dynamics and of organic life ; no mm- 
agined new arrangement, either local or general, in a period.of a few 
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