294 GEOLOGIES AND DELUGES 



is catastrophic, because it attempts to account for all 

 the great features of the earth by a single event which 

 occurred suddenly and with violence ; and that it is 

 theologic, since it owes its inspiration to Holy Writ. 



As geology grew older it went to school : what was 

 the name of the school is not quite certain ; some have 

 called it " Science falsely so called," others, more briefly, 



FIG. 91. The Deluge, according to Burnett. 



" Inductive Science." However this may be, the 

 immediate effect on the manners of young geology was 

 very distressing. It grew contradictory, and was frank 

 in the expression of obnoxious opinions. One of its 

 most irritating remarks was that the world was not 

 made in a week, and it would appear that at this time 

 the relations of child and foster-parent became not a 

 little strained. Still geology proved an apt scholar, and 



