168 GEOLOGY AND MOSES. 



other members with which it is associated, and that between this 

 and all other serieses there is the same correspondence as there 

 is between any two octaves in music. It is, be it remembered, 

 upon the fact of this correspondence between the serieses, 

 whether generally or minutely inspected, that we base bur 

 conclusion as to the unity of plan which runs through nature, 

 pointing to an origin in the seven-fold and corresponding 

 harmonies of the one Infinite God, who, from His own Es- 

 sence, has projected, from His own Life animates, and, from 

 His own Wisdom, directs, all things. It is in perfect harmony 

 with this supposition of a Divine originative and controlling 

 Power, that Moses, in the simple and untechnical language of 

 his times, refers the work of each of the successive periods of 

 creation to a Divine agency, and not to any force of develop- 

 ment inhering in nature as independent of God. 



I may add, that if there actually is a perfect conformity, 

 from generals to particulars, between the principles involved 

 in this seven-fold series of operations mentioned by Moses, 

 and those involved in every other seven-fold natural or 

 spiritual series, whether it be found in science or in the Bible, 

 this fact must be considered as strongly confirming, not to 

 say absolutely demonstrating, our conclusion that there is a 

 mighty law here involved, and must go far to convince 

 reasonable skeptics of the truth of, at least, those portions of 

 the. Biblical revelation which are found to clearly recognize 

 that law. Yet, from a close inspection of the sacred writings, 

 it will be found that this law is not only expressly recognized 

 in numerous instances, but that it runs through the whole 

 Divine plans of operation, in reference to the human race, 

 of which the Bible gives an historical and prophetic reflex. 



