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PETRIFACTIONS AND THEIR TEACHINGS. 



CHAP. VI. 



most remarkable facts in his nature; the facts of civilization, arts, 

 government, speech ; his traditions his internal wants his intel- 

 lectual, moral, and religious constitution. If we will attempt a re- 

 trospect, we must look at all these things as evidence of the origin 

 and end of man's being ; and when we do thus comprehend in one view 

 the whole of the argument, it is impossible for us to arrive at an origin 

 homogeneous with the present order of things. On this subject the 

 geologist may therefore be well content to close the volume of the 

 earth's physical history, and open that divine record which has for its 

 subject the moral and religious nature of Man." 



