164: GEOLOGY AND MOSES. 



day, or grand period, is also admirably verified by geological 

 facts. 



Animals of the classes just described, both according to 

 Geology and Moses, preceded the more perfect land animals, 

 the mammalia, upon the stage of existence. The creation of 

 these latter is said to have constituted |he first part of the 

 work of the following, being the sixth day, or period, which is 

 thus spoken of: " And God said, Let the earth bring forth the 

 living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and 

 beast of the earth after his kind : and it was so. And God 

 made the beast of the earth, and the cattle after their kind," 

 etc. The proof of the truth of this portion of the account is 

 found in the remains of the mammalial quadrupeds of the 

 Tertiary Period, in the more recent portions of which we have 

 shown that there was an actual shading off of the animated 

 tribes into the existing species. Moreover, the work of this 

 day, or period, both according to Geology and Moses, was 

 completed by the introduction of Man into being, as the 

 grand ultimatum of all the creative efforts. Thence, so far as 

 that great series of unfoldings was concerned, ensued a period 

 of rest, and the present is that sabattic period. 



The candid reader who has attentively followed me through 

 this investigation, will bear witness that I have made no effort 

 to explain away, or to change the true aspect of properly 

 understood facts, in order to make out a correspondence 

 between the teaching of science and those of Moses, but that 

 I have labored to simply set forth the facts of the two reve- 

 lations in their true aspect, leaving them to confirm or refute 

 each other as they might. The coincidence between the two 

 revelations, therefore, which, from generals to particulars, has 

 here appeared so striking, is one for which no human collator 

 is responsible, as it exists independently and unalterably in 



