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And thus we return to the point from which we 

 started. It was argued that the causes which deter- 

 mined the elevation of the land above the 

 waters were such as to ensure the stability 

 of the land when raised, and that it was 

 difficult to imagine the possibility of any 

 great revolution in the earth without 

 some miraculous interference with the law 

 of nature. It seemed to be literally true 

 that " the bounds of the sea had been 

 established by a perpetual decree, so that 

 they could not be passed;" and for the 

 same reason it ceased to be possible to 

 believe in those mighty revolutions which 

 form a part of the scheme of preadamite 

 geology, without believing in a miracle 

 for each revolution. This scheme required 

 continual revolutions, and, requiring these, 

 it opposed the admission of a law which 

 ensured stability. And what is the fact ? 

 The fact is, that geology does not require 

 these revolutions, and, not requiring them, 

 it ceases to be an objection to the admis- 

 sion of the law. Geology, indeed, be- 

 comes a witness to the stability of law. 

 In a word, there appears to be no reason 

 why we should believe that the earth was 

 created before the days of Adam, or 

 that it has been the scene of more re- 

 volutions than that mighty one which 

 is recorded in Scripture; while at the same 

 time the application of the law which is deduced 



No evidence 

 that the pro- 

 cess of strati- 

 fication began 

 before the 

 Adamic 

 epoch. 



Hence geolo- 

 gy appears 

 to speak of 

 no mighty 

 revolutions 

 except the 

 one which 

 destroyed th e 

 antediluvian 

 world. 



Hence geolo- 

 gy affords no 

 objection to 

 the deduction 

 from theory 

 that the land 

 and sea must 

 remain in the 

 same relative 

 position so 

 long as the 

 earth retains 

 the same re- 

 lative posi- 

 tion in space. 



Hence the 

 deductions of 

 science har- 

 monise with 

 and explain 

 the teachings 

 of Scripture, 

 and the de- 

 ductions and 

 teachings are 

 in perfect 

 keeping with 

 the facts of 

 geology. 



